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If you are a family who prefers clean food without chemicals, then you’ve probably sought out organic foods. This is great with the exception that the organic food you are likely to be eating has traveled across the countryside to get to your plate. What’s more is that it is most likely to have been [...]
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The place for fanciful dreams and imaginations are set free in the garden for you and me. To recall how a child learns is to take notice of all their little senses. They pick up every sound as though it tickles their ears. They touch and smell and pick apart flowers. The yearning to catch [...]
Read More →Family life often means that we don’t always have time to do things that we want to do. Gardening is one thing that a lot of people think about, but don’t think they have the time to maintain. However, the less work you do, the better your garden can be for the environment. Wildlife gardens [...]
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It was such a treat visiting heirloom gardens and all of the special growers across our country. The most important discovery was the passion for saving seeds that all these gardeners shared in common. We found everything from Pink Pumpkins to Pinto Snap Bean Tunnels as each gardener shared their personal experience with us. We [...]
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The folklore that surrounds us at New Years certainly evolves around a very long history of preparing cabbages and black-eyed-peas. Other cultures from around the world all take a keen interest in preparing special dishes to be served on the first day of the New Year. It seems to me that what could be deemed [...]
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I love my herbs as much as my heirlooms for the folklore and the history. Have you ever noticed all the pretty little Rosemary Christmas Tree Topiary’s at the market for the Holiday’s? I’ve always thought they make such splendid little trees for Christmas. There are tales told of Rosemary as far back as biblical [...]
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One of my favorite gardens to visit is From Dirt to Dinner located in San Jose California. The gardens curator, Julianne Idleman will be sure to show us all how to take the lawn out of the yard and grow food in its stead. Growing both in front and back of her home and everywhere [...]
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To better understand sustainable agriculture in its most simplistic terms we can divide the Agricultural Growing Methods into 3 types of farming practices Conventional Growing Method First there is conventional farming that relies on the heavy use of synthetic chemicals fertilizers. Without them nothing would grow. The soil has become void of any beneficial properties [...]
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This little personal size cantaloupe really caught my eye this summer. I can still hear heirloom grower Ruth Hardy when I asked her if it was worth growing again. As I heard the excitement come over her, she exclaimed, “TONS OF SEED saved! I ate a very ripe one today, OMGoodness! it was something in [...]
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Gardening for children means so much more than playing in the pole bean tunnels. Although how can gardening get any more fun than this! I think that Grandson Bradley will always remember gardening with his Grandfather, Tom Meade in this special Virginian Heirloom Garden! What do you think? The Pinto Snap Bean growing is a [...]
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How could any gardener not be totally captivated by a Heirloom Garden in Maui Hawaii? It was here that I found myself totally charmed by grower Jane Sperr and all of her exquisite and rare heirlooms. Like most heirloom gardeners across America, we find ourselves with limited information and resources for growing information in our [...]
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I’ve been visiting with Jackie Nybo as she shares her KraZgardenz ~Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ~ near Denver Colorado. She has been giving me the most fascinating details on growing this unique pink heirloom Australian Butter Pumpkin. I always appreciate a virtual garden tour, but none so grand as one that contains a very rare heirloom in such perfection. [...]
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