Links We Love
Here are some links from around the web that caught our eye in the past few days:- "A Month of Sunday Walks," artist Leanne Shapton's beautiful tree paintings in her new series for the New York Times....
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—Beautiful seed packets from the Hudson Valley have lovely packages designed by New York artists. (This seed packet's illustration is by Jenny Lee Fowler, an artist who cuts silhouettes out of...
View ArticleLinks We Love 3/6/11
-Miracle Grow: Scientists at Harvard mark lily petals and create a time-lapse film of the flower unfurling, learning that the edges of the flower grow faster than their centers. [BBC]-From Farm to...
View ArticleFarmer Favorites for 2011
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A We poll six farmers about what new vegetables they are most excited about bringing to their customers this year.In Magazine Issue: April 2011
View ArticleJasmine, a Revolutionary Flower
Jasmine, a long-time favorite flower of the Chinese, loved for its scent and use in tea, has been banned by the Chinese government. Starting in February, there was talk of a "jasmine revolution"...
View ArticleGrowing Salad in Outer Space
A Japanese astronaut, a Russian astronaut, and an American astronaut blasted into space today (no, not the beginning of a joke) and they are planning on growing plants...in space! Satoshi Furukawa...
View ArticleLinks We Love, 6/23/2011
-Is Uncle Sam the original reason behind the love of U.S. vegetable gardens? After a visit to the new National Archives show in D.C., Corby Kummer thinks so. [The Atlantic]read more
View ArticleThe Svalbard Global Seed Vault
In 2006, Norway began to build Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the ultimate seed bank—one that would survive all sorts of natural disasters—by building it inside a sandstone mountain on Spitsbergen Island,...
View ArticleLinks We Love, 12/7/2011
-Bikers wearing helmets planted with trees race on through the streets of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, paying homage to their green city. [Pruned]read more
View ArticleBotanic Notables: Return of the American Chestnut
In the late 1800s, when the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) reigned in Eastern forests, the tree was a symbol of national identity. Log cabins were built from its lumber, Christmas carols...
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Heronswood Sold to Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe
If you saw our slide show last week about the sale of Heronswood, the famed nursery garden near Seattle, you might be intersted in knowing the outcome. After the auction that was held on June 15, a...
View ArticleLinks We Love 11/13/2012
A balloon bridge, DIY gold planters, tropical fruits in the Golden State, beeswax and graphite drawings, and more in today’s Links We Love.read more
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