From rcoolman@u.washington.eduMon Oct 9 23:00:42 1995 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 14:42:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "'Ralph' S. Curran" To: sanet Subject: RE: Seed Sources for Upland Rice and Asian Vegetables Dear Cyber-Friends, I am working in the City of Seattle on a Project that established community gardens in low income housing projects. Seattle low-income housing population is predominately southeast Asian refugees. So there is a great demand for the seeds of a wide variety of vegetable crops grown throughout southeast Asia. If anybody out there in Cyberspace knows where I can get southeast Asian vegetable seeds please send the information on to me. If anybody knows of seed catalogs that have a selection of asian vegetables please, please, please send that information on to me as well. In addition, I have a number of demostration plots in gardens throughout the city. Next summer I would love to have seeds for some varieties of upland (dryland) rice that I could cultivate as a demonstation to my fellow gardeners. I am currently working on a project at one of the gardens that uses bamboo as a building material. It has been incredible to see the positive effect having something familiar to work with has had on the southeast Asian gardeners. If you have any leads into sources of upland rice seeds for varieties that would be adapted to Seattle's conditions please pass that information on to me. Thanks in advance to everybody. Everybody in Seattle really appreciates the help. Dr. Ralph Coolman 811 62nd St. NW Seattle, WA 98107 rcoolman@homer.u.washington.edu Tel: 206-684-0264