[Sacred Succulents] Autumn updates

[Sacred Succulents]

	Autumn greetings,
 We hope this finds you well. 
                           We've  lost the the better part of         
 the last months to family illness. We are now working to catch up  on
          nursery winter preparations and return to renovation work,
but keeping with the "malignant  normalcy" of things: Melissa broke
right arm ice-skating last weekend... What a year.        

	We recently made long overdue updates to our Specimen Plant List, see
partway down the homepage: www.sacredsucculents.com                   
       
 We’ve also updated the retail catalog PDFs—available for download
at the top of the homepage.          Note: We are are not shipping
_any_ new retail orders  until spring 2023. You are welcome to place
an order now to reserve  plants, just know it will not ship until
around April next year. We are  taking time out this winter for
essential nursery renovations and  irrigation installation. We greatly
appreciate your patience.
 We will continue to ship orders from our Specimen Plant List and
plant auctions throughout the winter.
                    We  plan to post another Plant Auction in the next
24 to 48 hours and run  it until Sunday or Monday evening. This _may_
be the last auction this year. An announcement will go out when the
auction launches. 
                                        Other news:
                    The past 2         years I've been volunteering my
help to a very special book         project--an archival, art book
edition of our friend John         Crowley's beloved novel _Little,
Big _illustrated by         Peter Milton, see our webpage: 
http://sacredsucculents.com/little-big-art-book-anniversary-edition/ 
Winner of the World Fantasy Award         when it was first published
in 1981, the novel is esteemed by a         broad diversity of
fans--from Yale literary critic Harold Bloom         to ethnobotanist
Kat Harrison,  from musician Maynard James Keenan to acclaimed
storyteller         Ursula K. LeGuin. For many readers _Little, Big_
is more         than a novel, it is an an enchantment, an alchemical
engine of         the imagination. Publishing this unique new edition
has been a         20 year saga, stalled by sundry issues. Recently
I've had the         pleasure of corresponding with celebrated
fantasist Neil Gaiman, who has become a major supporter of the
project, along with my         friend and counterculture historian
Erik Davis. Their generosity has helped revivify the project and
allowed         printing to finally begin earlier this year. The
project's architect and           publisher, Ron Drummond, had a
stroke this June and since then           book designer John D. Berry
and myself have been tasked with           overseeing the last stage
of production and making sure all is           in order to distribute
books. Just updating the 18 years of           customer records has
proven a considerable task; my volunteer           work since summer
has almost become a 2nd full time job. We           are excited to
report that the project is nearly complete, we           hope for
books to begin shipping before Solstice. 
Copies can           be pre-ordered through:
https://store.deepvellum.org/products/little-big
	We are sad to         report that our colleague Christian Rätsch 
died recently. Christian         was pioneer scholar of psychoactive
ethnobotany and the         reclamation of Euro-pagan traditions and
plant preparations. His           research, joyous curiosity and
beautiful books have inspired           us for the last three decades.
Christian was a         monument to himself -- an utterly unique man
that greatly         enriched the lives of many folks through sharing
his love and         fascination with the remote and forgotten facets
of our world.         Some of his 40+ books have been translated from
his native         German to English, such as _The Encyclopedia of
Psychoactive           Plants, __The Encyclopedia of Aphrodisiacs,
Shamanism           and Tantra in the Himalayas, Witchcraft Medicine,
Pagan           Christmas_, etc. Photographs of plants we grew grace
the         pages of several of these titles. May we all strive to
leave the         world a richer, better place as Christian has. 
 You can read about a few of our memories of Christian:
http://sacredsucculents.com/botanical-reflections/ 

	Perpetual gratitude for your ongoing support during these tumultuous
times!
 Ben Kamm and family 
	Sacred Succulents
 PO Box 781
 Sebastopol, CA 95473 USA
 http://www.sacredsucculents.com
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