Sharpen, Write, Plant, Repeat: "Seed of a Pen" by Zeev Zohar
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 07. 9.07
A great companion to a Bloomin' Flower Card or Grow-A-Note Recycled Cards, the "Seed of a Pen" (which is actually a pencil -- go figure) has a seed embedded in the top. After wearing the pencil down to a nub, in the ground it goes; with some water, sun and some tender loving care (and tips from TreeHugger's How to Green Your Gardening Guide), with any luck your very own (pencil?) plant will soon sprout and grow. Wouldn't it be great if everything we discarded could just be planted? More pics after the jump and at ::Haatar via ::NotCot.org
"at the top of the pencil sits a seed."
"when the pencil gets too small you plant it."
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Reminds me of the biodegradeable phone covers from the University of Warwick which include sunflower seeds! See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/NE1000000097300/.
Wouldn't it be better to just buy a regular pencil, which you can do at whatever nearby stationery store you might have, and a bag of seeds, rather than buying a special pencil which will probably have to be individually shipped and comes in a fancy box (as opposed to the pencil you buy at your local store coming in either no packaging or a big box that has a hundred pencils in it)? This seems like a pretty wasteful concept, especially given that a pencil bought at Staples and a bag of seeds is probably also cheaper.
What's in the lead? Is it reasonable to just discard of it in the garden? (I dunno what pencil leads are made of these days.)
where do i go about purchasing one of these?