on seed sources, seed catalogs, heirloom seeds, open-pollinated seeds, organic seeds, garden supplies
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from Save The Tomatoes
Once there were 7,000 different kinds of apples growing in the United States. Now, in my corner grocery, I'm lucky to find four. Five thousand varieties are already extinct, and the rest are inexorably dying out, thanks to the huge conglomerates that have turned agriculture into agribusiness . . . It never occurred to me that something so fundamental was in danger of being lost. . . I didn't know that seed companies were dropping whole pages from their catalogues. Small family-owned firms offering regionally-adapted varieties are being swallowed by agrichemical giants who push their own "new and improved" hybrids—which do not reproduce themselves—forcing farmers and gardeners to keep buying from them year after year.

on organic flowers, organic flower delivery, organic gardening

from Every Little Bit: Please Don't Eat The Daisies
Worldwide, the cut-flower industry is one of the heaviest users of agricultural chemicals. Ironic, isn't it? Something so lovely, so breathtaking—grown in a way that does so much damage to our world. . . Even though you're not eating them, the toxins used to grow these beauties are ending up in the air you breathe and the water you drink.

on organic coffee, shade-grown coffee, Fair Trade coffee, coffee sources, bird sanctuaries, migratory songbirds, coffee plantations, Rain Forest Alliance

from A Good Cup Of Coffee
There's always something, isn't there? It's gotten so you can't even have a cup of coffee without thinking first. Well, cheer up, and get a high off this—you can make a huge difference in the quality of life of real people all over the world by choosing coffee that's safely grown and fairly traded. . . here's a chance to have your money talk loud and clear . . whole ecosystems are being wiped out by new methods of coffee-growing . . . and since coffee plantations cover almost half the permanent cropland in regions most heavily used by migratory songbirds, the method by which coffee is grown has an enormous potential impact on their survival rate.