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I often think on our Native Americans and all the uses they had for different types of gourds. Gourds date back centuries throughout the world. Most of them require warm and even tropical growing conditions from countries such as Africa, South American, Asia and India just to name a few. So how did so many [...]
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“The 3 Step Challenge is designed to get you well on your way to a chemical free Garden. Chemical free gardening is all about nature. The goal for every natural gardener is to bring nature back into balance. As this happens harmony will begin to replace the chemicals.” ~ Pamela Kimsey How we approach natural [...]
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One of a cooks greatest rewards is having easy access to fresh culinary herbs. There is nothing like slipping out the kitchen door with a pair of clippers to snip a cutting from your own garden. Even during the winter months many culinary herbs can be grown successfully indoors as long as you provide them [...]
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Natural Home Gardeners, get ready to brew your very own composted manure tea! I did and all of my potted herbs and plants are loving me for it. Everything began to regain vigor and new growth in just a few days after I applied it. It’s easy to brew too! Bundled together in a package [...]
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History and Heritage If we think of a heirloom garden in the same way as we would a family heirloom or treasured antique passed down through generations, one that has been kept in the most pristine conditions, unhampered in its original state then you will begin to understand a little about heirloom gardening and heirloom [...]
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After returning from a recent trip from Upstate New York I was quickly reminded that fall is not so very far away. It is sometimes hard to be reminded of that way down here in the hottest month of August in Texas. All the while I was enjoying the cooler temperatures while viewing the landscapes [...]
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Let doctors or quacks prescribe as they may, Yet none of their nostrums for me; For I firmly believe—what the old women say— That there’s nothing like camomile tea. ~ David Paul Brown Growing, drying and preparing your own tea blends with herbs and fruits grown from your very own garden is one of the [...]
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I hope this is the summer that you’ve decided to grow some of your own vegetables and fruits. If you’ve not been able to start your garden just yet, I hope you are taking advantage of all the beautiful seasonal produce this summer by stocking up and putting up. I’ve been hearing so many wonderful [...]
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“Legends say that hummingbirds float free of time, carrying our hopes for love, joy and celebration. Like a hummingbird, we aspire to hover and savor each moment as it passes, embrace all that life has to offer and to celebrate the joy of everyday. The hummingbird’s delicate grace reminds us that life is rich, beauty [...]
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In recent years our country has struggled with so many different issues concerning our food system. It has come so far as gardeners and small farmers being idealized as a group of activists by many Americans. How does growing your own food warrant such a label? It is almost as though the activist label has [...]
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Where could life be more abundant than in a native natural forest? Envision the tranquility of wildlife unfolding in a place unhampered by human kind. Everything within all works together without any person needing to step in and pull up weeds. The lushness of trees and foliage needed no help with fertilizers. The native forest [...]
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In Permaculture, the Natural Garden, Organic Farms and Small Farms there really are not to many weeds considered to be obnoxious, although there are the ones that really seem to present a problem. Growing and cultivating all seems to become so much easier once we begin to work with nature instead of against it. Most [...]
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