Bev, you absolutely MUST go to the Butterfly Gardening forum. There is a lady on the forum (probably several), but one I know of for sure, who is a teacher, and is very active on the forum. If you tell them you are looking for seeds for a butterfly garden, you will absolutely be inundated. They LOVE to give and are so wonderful and joyous about sharing their love of butterflies and moths. Every question you or your friend has will be promptly answered. They are the most wonderful people I have ever met on the forums. They would almost have to be, to love and want to preserve some of our most beautiful creatures, wouldn't they? They will be so thrilled to help out. Please tell them that I sent you over there, and let them know why you're there. Tdogmom is one of the members, she is the teacher, and will have so many suggestions and ideas to help your friend out. This is so exciting. I love to hook people up with our butterfly group! I may even have some extra seeds they sent me for sure. Someone just sent me extra hairy indigo seeds, which is a host plant for the marine blue butterflies. I just checked the USGS website "Butterflies of North America". They have a map you can click on for your state, and it will list the butterflies that have been reported in your state by county. This butterfly, the Marine blue, has been reported in Texas, and it looks like possibly in the Lubbock area. Anyway, please go to the Butterfly Gardening forum and request seeds and info for your friend. They don't have an exchange yet, but tons of people will offer to send you some. Cool - we love adding people to the butterfly forum. If she is really interested in Monarchs, too, she can get her school designated as a Monarch Waystation, which is really cool. Susan

I taught three kindergarten classes about vermicomposting at the private schools request. As a Master Gardener who loves worms and children I jumped at the chance. I brought a homemade bin for each class and worms. I gave a list to the teachers to send home to their kids to bring(garbage and papers of course) We used a marker to divide the bin in quarters. They would fill each quarter then when the fourth was full the first should be ready. It was half way through the school year so NO way would they filla can o worms. They were all sooooo excited . I was given a cute worm Thank you with all their names and a Great worm book I had admired in one class room.

So pretty! No, these aren't Dolls of All Lands, they're Duchess Dolls and the box would have read "Dolls of All Nations". Hopefully, whoever wrote the country names on the cardboard are all correct, it looks like they are. They're in wonderful condition, but without the full box lid & bottom, the value does go down some. I just sold Gibson Girl and Cowboy in box on ebay and got $15.00 (plus shipping), but I think I just got lucky. It seems they're not as desirable these last few years. But if it were me, if you do use ebay, start around $10.00. And yes, all from the 50's. If you can, gently pull down at the back of their tops and you might be able to see their mark, I've attached a picture of that, but note, this date is a copyright date and those first ones had painted eyes, the sleepy eyed ones came out in the 50's

Looks like she is from Mexico and probably only worth around $10.