Chicago - March 10, 2009

Accounts Payable

Salvation Jane’s Seed Archive

Your mailbox is full of loan consolidations and preapproved credit cards.

But you’re more concerned with your debt to Mother Earth.

Lighten your burden with Salvation Jane’s seed archive, an ecominded initiative from ecologist and urban forager Nance Klehm.

The Chicago-based cataloger allows you to borrow and cultivate seedlings, provided that you send back double what you receive. Her extensive library includes medicinal, herbal, and food varieties.

If weeding makes you cringe, start with basil or mustard greens on your windowsill. Not sure how to care for eggplant? Send buds to mom or a friend.

Share your tips and tales at biannual local Swap ’n’ Store events or volunteer to help hull and winnow the seeds.

And consider your account paid in full.

For more information, go to salvationjane.net. For seed requests, e-mail jane@salvationjane.net.

Who’s your greenest pal? Send this e-mail to your favorite ecowarriors.

  Outdoorsy