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Welcome to My House
 And
welcome to a universe where, if you grow anything with love, you
are loved.
The Gardening Guild exists
- to provide a Forum for serious (including totally first time)
amateur gardeners to meet, and to share their gardening ideas, advice
and experiences World-wide. That's priceless wisdom, and you just
can't take it off a library shelf.
But the Guild's Prime Directive
is:
to encourage the distribution of heirloom, heritage or other
endangered plant seeds, internationally. So their geneplasm may
be preserved, safe for our grandchildren, to repair the ravages
now being inflicted on the world by monocultural farming and GM
(genocidally modified) foods. And to facilitate
the means for that distribution.
The Gardening Guild is real.
It's not just a dream in cyberspace. It's a world I actually live
in - here in the village of Ivinghoe Aston, at the very heart of
England, with my wife Janice and little daughter Sally.
 We
have 1/4 acre of paddock that's a bare 6 inches of hard clay above
flint and chalk. Oh, despair with me!
But every season, it's liberally festooned with upwards of 200 varieties
of rare heirloom beans, peas and tomatoes, gathered from all over
the world.
 (Yes,
I grow everything else too, even flowers. You should see Janice's
Cottage Garden! But I especially cherish those rare legumes and
tomatoes. Because I save their seed - to share them freely with
other Guild members.)
Yet, they grow!
How? Through a canny deployment of artful tricks and devices. My
experience suggests that anyone - anywhere in the world - can grow
almost anything they wish. (You will discover all
those ideas - in this site, if you're patient. I promise you.)
Everything we grow, we grow organically. And we use
almost entirely recycled materials.
Welcome to the family
I hope you'll find The Gardening Guild is a big, folksy, friendly
family - often exasperating, sometimes eccentric, but always full
of love. And worth coming back to. Just like any good family.
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and meet the family...
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