The Smithsonian has the most beautiful online library of vintage seed catalogs, and we’ve been using them to make envelopes of all sizes. All you need is a color printer (doesn’t everyone have one of these now?), scissors, glue stick, a pen and seeds. Make your own custom seed packets – great for the February seed swap going on now in the Resurrect The Barter group!

Here is photo slideshow with instructions from our Flickr site:

Click here for detailed instructions using our words and photos.

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Did you know that there is a T-shirt for HOMEGROWNers? There is! The design is printed on American Apparel Sustainable Edition organic cotton shirts in Natural. The front: an old-school-type encyclopedia entry article on saving tomato seeds. The back says: “Do it yourself, HOMEGROWN.org”.

Get your t-shirt at the Farm Aid online store - and thanks!

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We HOMEGROWNers are determined to grow and eat homegrown food wherever we are. Container gardening, balcony and fire escape gardening, plain old terra firma gardening, you name it, we grow where we can. Here are a few newer sites that can be a resource when looking for creative, sustainable and fiscally smart ways to have fresh, safe, and local homegrown food.

Portland-based Permaculture For Renters – “Regenerative design for the landless many”

Neighborhood Fruit – a web site and now an iPhone app that maps the locations of free public and backyard fruit. It’s yours for less than the price of a Mexican supermarket avocado.

Yardsharing sites:

Sharing Backyards maps available locations throughout North America and New Zealand.

Urban Garden Share matches homeowners to experienced gardeners, as well as providing a list of traffic medians and public spaces available for guerrilla gardening. The site originated in Seattle and is expanding to Louisville, Atlanta and Portland over the next few months. Amy is co-founder of Urban Garden Share and also the new Yardsharing Shepherdess here on HOMEGROWN.org! Look for more from Amy soon.

Hyperlocavore has many listing for people seeking yards to grow in.

The Santa Monica Garden Sharing Registry

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