Ho-ho-ho: It's seed season, among other festive reasons to celebrate in December. Today I invited a similarly seed-obsessed friend, Jennifer Jewell, to help me curate some seed-catalog recommendations you might not otherwise browse, and to talk seeds in general.
Jennifer’s latest book is “What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds,” and she is the creator of the popular “Cultivating Place” podcast. We talked about how to choose a seed catalog, why regionality matters, and more.
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