[Sacred Succulents] updates and plant auciton

[Sacred Succulents]

	Greetings,

	We are in a quandary, due to a variety of factors these past few
months we have not been able to keep up the level of service that we
would like and historically have been able to maintain. The pandemic
has seen a marked increase in orders while our actual time to tend the
nursery, email and fill orders has significantly decreased. Simply
maintaining our vast collection of several thousand plant species is a
full time job! We took most of June off from shipping new orders so we
could get caught up on backlog of existing orders. It is now mid-July
and we are still about a week away from being fully caught up with
existing orders and have a deluge of new orders coming in now.
Therefore we are currently in the process of reconsidering the extent
and frequency of shipping orders in the future. We do not have the
details worked out yet but we will be moving to a more limited
shipping period, both weekly, monthly and seasonally. Many nurseries
operate in this way and it increasingly makes sense for us to adopt
something similar in place of shipping 5 days week year round as we
have for the past 20+ years. We will post the specifics changes here
soon. For now please know that our capacity to ship orders is
significantly slowed right now, expect an additional 1-2 week lag time
on many orders.
Thank you for your understanding and patience during this tumultuous
time.  

	Specimen Plant Mini-Auction Fundraiser has begun!- For the past
several months we've being trying to find the time to hold another
full plant auction but current events have seen otherwise. In place of
one extensive auction we have decided to go ahead with a series of
small auctions, the first starting now and ending 6:30 pm PST,
Wednesday, July 22. We actually posted the auction 2 days ago but
we've had a day of computer problems that means we are just now
getting this announcement sent! We are still having issues uploading
the last few photos but we hope to have this remedied today. _For the
the Auction details see part way down the home page_
http://www.sacredsucculents.com

	Our Specimen Plant Offerings have been updated for July, see below
the auction on the homepage. We also have many new seeds and plants
ready to offer as soon as we find the time to write descriptions.

	Our good friend and traveling companion on numerous Andean forays,
Mateo Magee, now has a new online course available distilled from his
20+ years studying and practicing Andean ceremonial traditions. Check
it out: https://www.livingtheceremony.com/

	Our friend Ron Drummond has a rather affecting short story published
on this website dedicated to narratives of plague-time.       Potent
but not for the faint. Check it out:
https://www.enneadecameron.com/and-watch-it-burn/  The inimitable John
Crowley also has a very different and       endearing short story on
the site as well.

	Compadre Erik Davis now has an audiobook version available of his new
work_ High Weirdness_ on the 1970s strangeness of Terence McKenna,
Phillip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson. He also has some fantastic
monthly articles on a diversity of topics from thoughts on current
surreal events to poison oak as plant teacher -- he's making these
available through his _Burning Shore_ subscription. See:
http://techgnosis.com/

	best of health and peace of mind to all,

	BenSacred Succulents
 PO Box 781
 Sebastopol, CA 95473 USA
 http://www.sacredsucculents.com
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