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6500 Seven Locks Road
Cabin John, Maryland 20818
Phone: 301-320-2531
E-mail: bethesdacoop@erols.com
http://members.tripod.com/~co_op Maryland Food Co-op
B-0203 Student Union Building-Maryland U
College Park, Maryland 20742
Phone: 301-314-8089 Common Market Co-op
5813 Buckeystown Pike
Frederick, Maryland 21704
Phone: 301-663-3416
E-mail: host@commonmarket.com
http:/www.commonmarket.com Greenbelt Consumer Cooperative
121 Centerway
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
Phone: 301-474-0522
E-mail: RADCOOP@AOL.COM Nature's Exchange Co-op
1548 Perryman Rd.
Havre de Grac, Maryland 21078 Glut Food Co-op
4005 34th St.
Mt. Rainier, Maryland 20712
Phone: 301-779-1978 www.glut.org Takoma Park Silver Spring Cooperative
201 Ethan Allen Aven
Takoma Park, Maryland 20912
Phone: 301-891-2667
http://tpss.org Westminster Consumers Coop
28 Westminster Shopping Center
Westminster, Maryland 21157
Phone: 410-848-3200
Other Coops....a great index.... Index of Coops: http://csf.colorado.edu/co-op/ Agriculture, Horticulture, and Natural Diversity
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Featured sites | Abundant Life Seed Foundation (Port Townsend, Washington)
Abundant Life is a non-profit organization which preserves plant diversity. | | The Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association hosts an interesting electronic mailing list on biodynamic farming and gardening. | | Database of 7000 Useful Plants, from Plants for a Future (Cornwall, England) .
One of CSF's long term aims is to encourage the discussion regional plant differences, including locally adapted cultivated varieties. In the meantime, this resource is an excellent place to start. | | Sustainable Practices for Vegetable Production in the South is a book, available on-line in full, by Dr. Mary Peet of North Carolina State University. | | Ecology Action has a description of the "biointensive" food-raising method. They are well known for John Jeavons' How to Grow More Vegetables..., currently in its fifth edition. The book has a bibliography which far exceeds the scope of the web pages listed here, for people seeking to learn more about sustainable growing. | | Flora Communications hosts electronic mailing lists on community forestry and environmental arts. (Baltimore, Maryland) | | City Farmer's Urban Agriculture Notes covers initiatives to promote food security and urban efforts (like community gardening) around the world. | | GardenWeb maintains a large number of on-line garden forums, which work like UseNet news groups. Some are in French, while others are specific to gardening in the south Pacific, for example. | | "A Modern Herbal" by Mrs. M. Grieve (1931) lists medicinal and other uses of over 800 plant varieties. | | The Future is Abundant (1982) is a resource guide for sustainable growing in the Pacific northwest. | | USDA Hardiness Zones color map of the U.S. |
Articles, Reviews, and Bibliographies | Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crop Plants | | Arid Region Farming Primer [ECHO] | | "Ancient Hawaii: A Model of Sustainable Agriculture, by Robert H. Faust. | | Container Farming: Organic Food Production in Slums of Mexico City, by Rodrigo A. Medellín Erdmann. [1/98]
(Table of Contents for this issue of GATE) | | "A Matter of Survival: How Agricultural Biodiversity can be Maintained" by Nelson Alvarez | | Issue no. 1, 2, 3 or 4 of Craig Dremann's "Native Grass Gossip" | | "Seeds of the Future" by Christina Waters. | | Vegetable Bytes, a Vegetable and Row Crop Newsletter (Sutter and Yuba counties, California) | | "The Gospel According to Wes Jackson" | | "Rural Philosophy for Education: Wendell Berry's Tradition," by Paul Theobald | | Green & Growing Environmental Education Project has published From the Ground up, a teachers' guide to agriculture, food, and sustainable development. | | "An Outlaw Grain Comes Back" (Amaranth) by Diane Sussman | | "Solving the Slurry Problem" by John Seymour | | Cover Crop Biology: A Minireview, part 1. by Robert L. Bugg | | "Farm as Form: Wendell Berry's Sabbaths" by Jeffery Alan Triggs | | The Excrement Poem, by Maxine Kumin | | "Three Agricultural Fallacies" by Wendell Berry | | "Sustainable Farming Systems in Colombia" | | Biomass Fuel from Woody Crops for Electric Power Generation by Robert D. Perlack, et al. | | Choix des espèces adaptées au milieu urbain | | "Ascorbic Acid and Vitamin A Content of Edible Wild Plants of Ohio and Kentucky" by Thomas M. Zennie and C. Dwayne Ogzewalla | | Economic Botany (Edible, Herbal, Medicinal and Useful Plants; Ethnobotany) [a bibliography] | | The Practical Farmer: Quarterly Newsletter of Practical Farmers of Iowa [Use your mail address as the password.] | | Sustainable Agriculture and Permaculture bibliography | | SUSAG Abstracts |
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