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From the Seed STL website:

Seed STL hosts three seedling sales throughout the year. These sales are open to the general public and will include Seed St. Louis seed packets of varieties we recommend for the area, and merchandise.

All of the plant sales are held outside behind the Carriage House building at 3815 Bell Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63108. Cash, credit card, Google Pay and Apple Pay are accepted as payment.

Find more information about the March 9 sale HERE.

2024 Sales
March 9: March Sale (Potatoes, Onions, Strawberries, Asparagus, etc.)April 6: Spring Seedling Sale
May 11: Summer Seedling Sale
August 10: Fall Seedling Sale
October 5: Garlic Sale

The Sustainability “Eco-Ed” Series will feature a presentation on the book, Environmental Missouri, by Don Corrigan at the Webster Groves Public Library at 7 p.m., May 7.

by Don Corrigan

Volunteers with two city commissions are joining hands to provide Webster Groves area residents with some free “Eco-Ed.” The once-a-month ecology education sessions begin in March with energy efficiency and continue through October.

“Malachi Rein, director of Building Energy Exchange of St. Louis, is going to kick off the series with timely information about why and how to make buildings and residences more energy-efficient,” said Karen Anderson.

“This first session on sustainability is at the Webster Groves Public Library at 7 p.m. on March 5,” said Anderson. “A pillar of the sustainability concept is to save money, while reducing resources used for energy, food needs and so much more.”

Anderson is a member of the Sustainability Commission. Carrie Coyne is a member of the Green Space Advisory Commission. Coyne said not all the “Eco-Ed” sessions are inside. An April 17 event will be at 5:30 p.m. outdoors at Southwest Park.

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Bird buffs, falcon fanciers, and anyone enraptured by raptors is invited to meet the objects of their admiration during this year’s An Evening with Raptors event.

The annual An Evening with Raptors hosted by the Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center returns this year on Friday, Jan. 26 from 7-9 p.m.  The event is free and is open to all ages.

It’s the ultimate partnership between man and bird.  Falconry is an ancient sport, and you can learn all about it at An Evening with Raptors event.  Falconry is the art of training raptors—birds of prey like hawks and falcons—to capture wild game, so that bird and trainer essentially become hunting partners. The use of falconry can be traced all the way back to 700 B.C.E., and perhaps even earlier.

“Several area falconers will gather to offer the rare chance to observe and learn about these fascinating feathered hunters,” said MDC Interim Nature Center Manager, Robyn Parker.  “They will also explain how viewers can get started in this age-old sport themselves,” she added.

Registration required. See below.

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by Don Corrigan

Lots of “iffy” New Year’s predictions are being made for 2024. One sure bet prediction is that the sun will disappear on April 8, 2024. It will be the second solar eclipse for parts of Missouri in less than a decade.

Area astronomy clubs, school science programs and libraries have already got their sights set on a repeat of events that took place on Aug. 21, 2017. A highlight of that event was telescope viewing opportunities in St. Louis.

It’s not too early to start making plans. In fact, it may be too late if you want to get the full eclipse experience available in locales like Cape Girardeau or Carbondale, Illinois. Hotels and campsites are already posting “No Vacancy.”

Many in the St. Louis area will have a front row seat for a partial solar eclipse. There will be some amount of sky darkening, but there will be no corona and no totality, as in August 2017.

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Buy a signed book from Don Corrigan’s pop culture trilogy and receive a raffle ticket for the amazing Christmas Flatulence Basket packed with gassy goodies. (pictured above)

Flatulence scholar Don Corrigan will unveil the Christmas Festival Flatulence Basket in the Washington, Missouri area on Nov. 25. The one-of-a-kind yuletide basket is destined to become a holiday favorite.

Festive and flatulence-festooned baskets will be available for viewing at the Blumenhof Winery Christmas Boutique in Dutzow on Saturday, Nov. 25, from noon – 5 p.m. Many vendors of holiday cheer also will present at the boutique.

Author Corrigan will have a book signing for his pop culture series of books, including his most recent: Flatulence in Popular Culture. Book buyers can get a signed book and a raffle ticket for a flatulence basket, the perfect holiday “white elephant” gift for dad.

McFarland Publishing recently announced that Corrigan’s pop culture trilogy is completed with three books: Nuts About Squirrels, American Roadkill, and Flatulence in Popular Culture. His flatulence book is headlined: “I fart in your general direction,” per the Holy Grail movies of Monty Python.

Shoppers can come to Blumenhof; buy a signed book from the pop culture trilogy; and, receive a raffle ticket for the amazing Christmas Flatulence Basket packed with gassy goodies. Signed books – with accompanying raffle ticket – can be purchased thru Dec. 18. Winner of the prize holiday basket will be drawn and announced on the first day of winter, Dec. 21.

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