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South Shore Locavores – Get Your Garden Started
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Local Garden Centers and Plant Nurseries – updated for spring 2024
🤩C.N.Smith Farm & Garden Center, E Bridgewater. Seeds and seedlings. Produce and eggs. Fun seasonal events! PYO!
🤩Crystal Lake Greenhouse, 2 locations: Plymouth and Carver. Better blooms for your bucks.
🤩Holly Hill Farm, Cohasset. Watch for their beloved plant sales offering organic seedlings.
🤩G. Norwood Farm, Brockton. Over 100 years of experience.
🤩Williams Trading Post, Middleboro Huge selection of beautiful seasonal plants, antiques too, to add a touch of uniqueness to your home and garden. Open Spring and Fall.
🤩 Nessralla Farm, Halifax, Store is open year-round offering produce, meat, honey, maple syrup, etc. They also offer hardy seedlings, beautiful hanging baskets, and seasoned firewood.
🤩 Bridgewater Farm Supply, Bridgewater. Mulch, loam, compost, soil, woodchips, hay, and straw.
🤩 Gardeners Choice, Pembroke. Seeds, soil, compost, plants, seedlings, landscape bushes, and trees.
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More to Explore:
Blue Stem Natives, Norwell
Kennedys Country Gardens.com, Scituate
Devine Feed and Pet, Norwell
www.pcsdma.org Sheriff’s Dept. Horticulture program
www.capecodextension.org Fact sheets, community gardens, and more.
www.masshort.org Mass. Horticultural Society.
www.fourseasonfarm.com Experimental market garden operated by Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch in Maine.
www.rareseeds.com Baker Creek heirloom seeds.
www.gardeningchannel.com
www.garden.org/zipzone Find your hardiness zone
Seed Resources
Seed Libraries in Southeastern Massachusetts Libraries
Edible Tip: Check your local library for seeds. Yes, your library! Many have a Seed Library where you can ‘borrow’ seeds for no charge, grow the plant, and then harvest extra seeds to contribute back to the library. How awesome is that? Find your local free seed library here.
Interested in starting your own Seed Library? Hear the inspiring story about this 13-year-old who is offering free starter kits.
Seed Catalogs
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High Mowing Organic Seeds Learn More
Johnny’s Seed Company Learn More
Seed Savers Exchange Heritage Farm Learn More
West Coast Seeds Learn More
Popular Books for Adults in the Old Colony Library Network
Crops in Tight Spots : Grow Amazing Fruit and Vegetables Wherever you Live by Alex Mitchell, 2019
Starting & Saving Seeds : Grow the Perfect Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers for Your Garden, by Adolf Thompson, 2018
Heirloom Vegetable Gardening : A Master Gardener’s Guide to Planting, Growing, Seed Saving, and Cultural History by William Weaver, 2018
Grow Great Vegetables in Massachusetts, by Marie Iannotti, 2019
Vegetable Gardening Wisdom : Daily Advice and Inspiration for Getting the Most from Your Garden by Kelly Trimble Smith, 2019
The Flower-Powered Garden : Supercharge Your Borders and Containers with Bold, Colourful Plant Combinations by Andy Vernon, 2018
The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan, 2009
The Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook : Perfectly Timed Gardening for your Most Bountiful Harvest Ever Ron Kujawski, 2011
Popular Books for Kids
From Seed to Plant by Gail Biggons, 1993
How a Seed Grows by Helene Jamieson, 2015
Oh Say Can You Seed? All About Flowering Plants, by Bonnie Worth, 2001
A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Aston, 2007
If You Hold a Seed by Elly MacKay, 2018
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner, 2015
Have a suggestion to add to the list? Add it here, in the comments.
Consider adding chicken manure to your vegetable garden, read how to do it here: https://ediblesema.com/farm/garden-gold/