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“A Kitchen Garbage Garden”: New Life for Old Trash
I recently picked up a gorgeous little book called Toad Cottages and Shooting Stars: Grandma’s Bag of Tricks, by Sharon Lovejoy. Don’t let the title put you off – you [...]
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Word a Week Challenge: ‘Garden’– The Need for Green
I pined, I yearned, I whined. A small garden plot, that’s all I wanted. Not much to ask, just a sunny spot, maybe 3×5 meters. I ached, chafed, coveted, craved. [...]
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9 Reasons Why You Should Garden with Your Kids
It was called The Cultivator, and it was an instrument of torture. A creaky, curmudgeonly metal wheel in front of four plow blades that we would muscle through reluctant spring [...]
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Diggin’ The Dirt with Your Kids: A Child’s Garden
So our last post helped nudge you in the direction of doing a bit of gardening with the kids. Great! But a lot of folks may be new to this, [...]
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A Farm-to-Table Food Frolic at Underwood Family Farms
We’re pleased, nay, proud, to have Jennifer Fontaine with us today as a guest blogger. Jennifer writes the amazing Mommy Hiker blog, with travel tips, recipes, environmental stewardship, and much, [...]
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Turn Your Kids into Guerillas
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m the last person who would advocate teaching our kids to engage in illegal activity. More or less. But I was raised by parents who [...]
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Planting for Pollinators
Reblogged from Little Home in the Big City: Did you know that honeybees are endangered. Well, they are. This is a pretty scary thing - pollinators play such a huge, […]
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A Morning in the Garden
Yesterday was a bit showery (we had outrageous thunderstorms in the evening), so G and I mostly just played it cool at home. During a break in the rain we […]
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Someone Around Here’s a Guerrilla
A little while back I posted an article about guerilla gardening. Well this weekend we were out and about in the city, and I noticed that somebody had been doing […]
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Want to Instantly Reduce Your Household Waste by 1/3?
Then compost. Well, that was an easy post. See you later. What’s that? You want more? Fine. Here are some excellent reasons to start composting today. Food waste makes up roughly 30-40% of what goes...
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