I’ve taken it upon myself to form an organic gardening and general nature nuts club here in my local area. I’ve known that people were out there, somewhere, bc I kept bumping into them here and there, over the last 3 years. But we weren’t connecting up with each other much, so now we’ll have an opportunity to get together at least once a month.

We had the first meeting, a picnic and garden tour here on our farm. I enjoyed it, immensely, and met some new nice folks. Everyone seemed to have a really enjoyable time , and many even liked our old “house in progress”. Great group of people. I’m so glad I finally made the time to organize it.

Anyway, here are some organic websites from a handout I made up for our first meeting. Thought I’d share them with you all, as well. If you would, please add your own favorites to this list, for Beyond’s archives:

WEBSITES Of INTEREST TO ORGANIC GARDENERS

Organic Advice

http://www.purefood.org/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seedsofchange

http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/facts/standards.htm

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/organic/

http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html

http://www.ibiblio.org/farming-connection/whatshot.htm

http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/index.html

Bug Advice

http://www.laters.com/bugs.htm

Plant/Seed exchange

http://www.rebeccasgardenweb.com/

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/exchind/

http://members.tripod.com/dmford/newsletter/seedexch.html

http://davesgarden.com/

Garden Catalogues Master List

http://pbmfaq.dvol.com/list/

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Answers

Oh wow, Sharon!! I just typed in gardenweb.com and took a look at all the forums - anything and everything! Many thanks for the nudge - boy am I gonna be yawning tomorrow!

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Ha ha! I was just on your thread, Polly, posting about Garden Web forums! I've mostly looked at the tomatoes forum. Peeked into the composting one too. Not enough hours in the day!

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001

thanks for posting these sharon, I am looking forward to spending some time there if I EVER get my garden in. The mud is sure making things slow but I just keep plugging away.

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001

Great stuff, Sharon!

When I get around to working on our (new and improved) BTS Portal again I'll add these links to the *Gardening* section.

-- Anonymous, June 06, 2001