Monsanto, Seeds, and Green Building Forum

A final follow up on the uproar caused by the email that mentioned Monsanto and the source of your gardening seeds.  I contacted Barbara Kingsolver (of the wonderful top-ten list of my all time favorite books I've read in my life:  "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle").  The answer is as I (and many of you) eventually deduced.  So, ask your seed companies, that don't already outright state, where they buy their seed from.   It's good to let them know that you care.  It's also "interesting" to go the the agribusinesses websites directly and see how and what they are marketing.   I checked out Monsanto's website and Seminis'.
 
Barbara Kingsolver put a new page directly on her website to address our issue.   Here's the link:  http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/News.html
 
Thanks for all your input.   ...Thoughts to contemplate as you poke around in your garden.
 
Secondly, the St. Mary's Commission on the Enviroment is sponsoring a Green Building Forum on Sat., Feb. 23rd, 2008, 10-3 p.m. at the Walter F. Drake Airport in Hollywood, MD.   For more information visit the commission's page on www.greensomd.com .  I will be having a table there and discussing Sustainable Homesteading while I spin cotton, recycled from pill bottles, into yarn.  I'll have handouts of some of our more popular items (like the homemade laundry detergent recipe).  If anyone would like to come and help talk to visitors, I would like that.   I can only talk for a limited time before I get system overload.