Thought this might be of interest kathryn >X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Apr 2 01:14:00 1999 >Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 19:00:47 -0500 (EST) >From: Rob Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Perennial Vegetable Seed Company Catalog now online >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > Food for Thought Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ecol-Agric Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Eric Toensmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Gita A Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-Authentication-warning: lessing.oit.umass.edu: trf owned process doing -bs >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk > >If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden. >If you want to be happy for a lifetime, plant perennial vegetables... > >The 1999 Perennial Vegetable Seed Company catalog is now available >on-line at > >http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~trf/pvsc99.html > >About PVSC: Our goal is to introduce the public to a diversity of >perennial vegetables. These plants have mostly been neglected as food >plants, because they do not fit well into annual cropping systems. >However, many are low-maintenance, virtually trouble-free crops which >provide food year after year! > >There are perennial vegetables for all occasions, from formal border and >herb gardens, to the shade of fruit and nut trees, to naturalizing in your >backyard prairie, forest, or wetland. A great diversity of perennial >vegetable species exist. Some have been cultivated for centuries, some are >wild, and some are only now being developed as crops. As PVSC grows, we >will offer more and more species, many of which are not commercially >available in North America. This year we are growing out improved >Groundnut (Apios americana), as well as Sea Beet (Beta vulgaris maritima), >the perennial ancestor of beets and chard, Turkish Rocket (Bunias >orientalis), a tasty perennial mustard relative, and more. We are hot on >the trail of perennial Brassica species, including perennial broccolis and >kales, and their wild ancestor, perennial Wild Cabbage (Brassica >oleracea). > >On the new website you can also find out about a special offer on _Edible >Forest Gardens_, a new, comprehensive guide to perennial vegetables and >perennial polyculture systems. > > >***************** >T. Robert Fetter >Research Assistant >Dept. of Resource Economics >Draper Hall >University of Massachusetts >Amherst, MA 01003 >phone 413-545-5716 >fax 413-545-5853 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >To Unsubscribe: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command >"unsubscribe sanet-mg". >To Subscribe to Digest: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command >"subscribe sanet-mg-digest". > >All messages to sanet-mg are archived at: >http://www.sare.org/san/htdocs/hypermail >
