365 IN 365 - The Seed Catalogs Are Here!

Jennifer Armstrong is the creator of this series of posts, published bi-monthly, entitled 365 in 365. These posts will help guide us all as we accept the 6D opportunity to diversify our plants in order to nurture and nourish our microbiome and thus improve our health and wellness.

If you are a gardener (sometimes even if you aren’t!) you’ll eventually find yourself on the mailing lists of the seed companies.  The end of the holiday season usually coincides with the Arrival of the Seed Catalogs, which I put in capital letters because it has the gravitas of an annual ceremony.

While we gardeners are relishing the leisure of no watering, no weeding, no hauling of compost or fertilizer, we are fantasizing about how much different the garden will be this year.  This year, it will be amazing.  That fantasy is stoked by the catalogs, and for my money, none is more dramatic and whimsical than the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds book.  The exotic varieties of vegetable, herb, and flower seeds offered here are extraordinary.  If you thought you had ticked off all the boxes in the melon list, or the radishes, or the beans - I have one word for you:  HA!

There are vegetables with unusual colors, shapes, skin textures.  There are detailed descriptions about the origin of the species, the number of days to germination, days to harvest. How to eat them, serving suggestions, testimonials.   How hard could it possibly be to eat 365 different edible foods when you see how many you could be growing in your own back yard?  As the snow falls, this catalog and the rest of them sit by my armchair by the wood stove, and begin sprouting bookmarks and post-it notes.  We eat first with our eyes, right?  I will be eating these plants all winter long!

About Jennifer Armstrong

Jennifer Armstrong has spent her life making things; she has had a long career of writing books for children, decades of gardening, painting, making music, and cooking. A 2023 graduate of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies course in Plant- Based Nutrition, she has also combined her interest in sustainability with her love of food by learning how to can and dehydrate, saving as much of the local harvest as possible for use throughout the year.  She lives in upstate New York.

Jennifer is both a blog writer and event moderator at 6D Living. Her blog post series 365 in 365 will explore how we can all diversify and improve our microbiome. Jennifer is also an administrator for our public, world-wide event of the same name. This free event is a year long community activity with one goal only - get more people on the planet a wider variety of plants.

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