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Gardening For Butterflies - And Other Pollinators,...

Wall Flower Studio Garden   -   Jan 09, 2010 - By Karen_1

A butterfly garden is a designed to attract and encourage butterflies. Flowers provide food that adult butterflies need in the form of nectar. Host plants provide the food source needed by caterpillars. A rule of thumb is, the greater the variety of flowers...

Teaching ORGANIC GARDENING TO CHILDREN at schools ...

Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Jan 09, 2010 - By Tony_1

There is a child care  close to where I live.Sherry who runs the small day care has a physical disability but loves to garden.I visited her yesterday with some seedlings donations and started a small vegetable garden at her backyard.NO CHARGE!A HAPPY NEW...

This Month At Colvin Family Farm

Colvin Family Farm   -   Jan 09, 2010 - By Colvin Farm

My eyes are still getting adjusted from being out in the blinding whiteness of the snow--everything looks dim and dark when you first come in compared to outside. We didn't get the 2-3 inches that it takes to fully cover everything with a full blanket of...

The Farming Continuum

F.A. Farm   -   Jan 09, 2010 - By Walter_1

Our farm is in a rural farming county in NW Washington, but a lot of the farmland near us has been taken up by McMansions. There are a few beef south of us and a seed potato producer half a mile away. He uses the usual huge tractors, herbicides and chemical...

Garden Sirens

Desert Greens   -   Jan 09, 2010 - By Eric_1

In the interim of heat and green-nests I crave the creative carvings of gardening. There is a deep seated desire to reach into the soil and discover the wonders that lie there. To participate with the mysterious world that lives there, that gives here. But, I...

Baby It's Cold Outside

Double Oak Farm   -   Jan 09, 2010 - By Lori

  It is cold and snowy outside today. The pond is frozen over. The ice is  over 6 inches thick and with low’s below zero predicted that won’t be changing soon. The deer just ate the last of the kale I was saving in the garden. So where in the middle...

Tastes of Winter

Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Jan 08, 2010 - By Emily

It's been a cold and snowy new year...so far we haven't had a day without being under a winter advisory or warning of some sort.  Currently, we have about 18 inches of snow here.  A lot more has fallen, but it's been fluffy snow that...

Stocking Your Pantry with Fats and Oils

Cookus Interruptus   -   Jan 08, 2010 - By Cynthia

Which fats and oils do you keep in your pantry?  Watch the Cookus Interruptus tips from Steve plus storage tips.  Plus a little matchmaking... Handy chart and video here.

what do I do all winter? The chicken feed saga

Abbe Hills Farm CSA   -   Jan 08, 2010 - By Laura_1

Greetings shareholders, Hope you are all keeping warm and able to stay inside for a couple of days.  I'm fine here, trying to get my desk cleaned off, clean up the 2009 business, and prepare for the upcoming season.   Sometimes...

Saving Seeds

Wall Flower Studio Garden   -   Jan 07, 2010 - By Karen_1

Some reasons to save seeds    1) Saving seeds appeals to my      motto of " waste not want not ".   I hate to see anything good go unused, and the economical reasons alone, especially in today's...