Wow. That’s so cool.
I feel somehow weird actually benefitting from my tax dollars somehow in a personal individual manner...
I also see you can order cuttings of various varieties of fruits and trees. I’m definitely going to do that this winter/next spring. I’ve been wanting to work on a cross between Dormanred raspberry (tolerant of our heat, soil diseases and stuff) that’s a cooking raspberry (IF you like them tart you’re in business with fresh Dormanreds, otherwise it’s cooking for you!) and something with a little more fresh eating vibe. I’ll probably have to keep the ‘other’ plant in a pot to put inside when the temps get and stay over 90/70.
I’m psyched!
Speaking of government, I downloaded the Department of Agriculture’s canning guidelines. Before last year, I knew zilch about food preservation. The guidelines are pretty comprehensive for my purposes. It’s nice to benefit from our tax dollars. Before the advent of PC’s, there was some entity in Pueblo, CO that had useful information for consumers (your rights as an airline passenger—that is, when we still had rights—and other things of that nature).