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Shelled Peas = Green Candy

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Learn how to properly plant nature's candy - green peas.

25 Tips for Living Green

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These 25 tips will ensure you’re making a good start at living more sustainably.

How to Remove a Bee Stinger

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Don't waste time panicking if you're stung by one of your bees. Read this and know what to do right away.

Hot Bread Kitchen

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How To Sterilize Soil

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Excerpt from Urban Farming by Thomas J. Fox with permission from its publisher, Hobby Farm Press, an imprint of BowTie Press. Purchase Urban Farming here. Healthy soil contains far more beneficial critters than harmful ones, and compost-enriched soil has been shown to fight damping off (a fungal disease that shrivels young plants) and other problems. […]

Container Garden Containers

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Photo courtesy of Digital Vision/Martin Poole/Thinkstock One consideration when starting your container garden is using plastic pots. Excerpt from Urban Farming by Thomas J. Fox with permission from its publisher, Hobby Farm Press, an imprint of BowTie Press. Purchase Urban Farming here. There are three main considerations when choosing a container for your container garden. […]

Landscape Cloth Versus Hardware Cloth

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A Country Cottage in the City

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After replacing their static front lawn with a living landscape, this Oregon couple realized becoming the talk of the town was a good thing.

New Terrace

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I'm building a planting terrace at the sunniest part of my garden.

Fruit: A History of Apples

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Excerpt from the Popular Garden Series magabook Orcharding with permission from its publisher, BowTie magazines, a division of BowTie Inc. Purchase Orcharding here. Most historians believe the apple originated in the Dzungarian Alps, a mountain range separating Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and China, where wild apple trees still produce teensy apples the size and shape of the […]

Fruit: A History of Pears

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Excerpt from the Popular Garden Series magabook Orcharding with permission from its publisher, BowTie magazines, a division of BowTie Inc. Purchase Orcharding here. Pears were much beloved by the ancients. Homer called pears a “gift of the gods.” Roman horticulturists used grafting techniques to develop more than 50 different pear cultivars. Hardy varieties of pears […]

Fruit: A History of Peaches

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