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If you're into vegetable gardening, you should check out Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Last year I had great success with two kinds of little white eggplant and one little round green eggplant from Baker Creek--they seem to be generous with the amount of seed they give you; up to two or three times as many seeds as the package says it will contain, sometimes, and then the seed itself has a high germination rate. (Once all the plants started producing it was like something out of a Garrison Keillor monologue, when people in Lake Wobegon start leaving all their extra zucchini on neighbors' doorsteps late at night).

So I got all my seeds from them this year (hopefully everything I grow will be unrecognizably strange looking but delicious.).

Now if only we don't get a stage 4 drought this summer. (Right now I'm reading Bird on Fire and A Great Aridness...a design project related thing, but relevant to the interests of anyone living in the American southwest.)