Shipments to and from South Africa
Our shipment went out today to our South African Shaster sister non-profit. $76.40 to ship many open-pollinated seeds, children's clothing and books, and adult sustainable gardening, farming and other non-fiction books and magazines.
Also today, their shipment of "Spanspeck" melon seeds arrived to us. In Cape Town, they know their melons, and they insist this is one of the best, sweetest melons ever. Their description sounds like it's a type of muskmelon. They saved the seeds of the sweetest one for us to experiment with here in America. We'll grow a few out on Island Meadow Farm, and send the rest to our friends at Baker Creek Heirloom seeds to let them grow them out and test them in their more typically warmer summer weather. Time will tell if this new African melon variety will eventually be offered to all of North America.
With love,
