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How to Grow Broccoli

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Broccoli is a love-or-hate vegetable, but it's easy to grow and tend.

Transplants: Vegetable Planting Guide to Seedlings

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Excerpt from the Popular Garden Series magabook Vegetable Gardens with permission from its publisher, BowTie magazines, a division of BowTie Inc. Purchase Vegetable Gardens here. While growing vegetables from seeds can be especially rewarding, transplants might be the best option for most new gardeners. “If you’re a first-time gardener, I suggest you plant transplants — also […]

Heirloom Vegetable Seeds for Your Garden

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Excerpt from the Popular Garden Series magabook Vegetable Gardens with permission from its publisher, BowTie magazines, a division of BowTie Inc. Purchase Vegetable Gardens here. Heirloom seeds offer global diversity among vegetable varieties and provide opportunities for some gardening fun. Here are some interesting heirloom vegetable seed varieties to try. Moon & Stars watermelons are named […]

Sleeping Quarters

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Photo by Audrey Pavia Three of my cats like to cram themselves into just one bed. I’ve been a cat person my whole life. I think there was a three-month period when I was 27 when I didn’t have a cat. I had lost my kitty to leukemia and was too grief-stricken to get another […]

Organic Equals Sustainability

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Photo Courtesy of Nature & More Vokert Engelsmann, Nature & More founder, is thrilled with this new development. A Dutch scientific institute, Wageningen University & Research Centre, investigated the fundamental sustainability accomplishments of organic agriculture and found that organic agriculture, in most cases, performs better than non-organic agriculture. According to the December 7, 2011 report, […]

Pied Piper

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DIY Solar Oven

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One of the most eco-friendly, simplest and safest ways to cook food is with a solar oven. Follow our DIY Solar Oven instructions to build your own.

Where Urban Meets Farm: Cooking Up Community

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Community kitchens nourish body, mind and spirit.

Food Label Definitions

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Quit scratching your head about those confusing food labels. This guide comes to the rescue.

How to Create a Lasagna Garden

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7 Tips for Container Gardening

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Courtesy iStockphoto/Thinkstock Five-gallon buckets work well for container gardens, and fill containers with a potting mix high in organic matter. Even if you don’t have a yard or access to a community-garden plot, you can still harvest a bounty of produce all your own. Planting a container garden is a great option for people who […]

9 Tips for Growing Container Trees

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A small yard doesn't mean you can't start tree farming. An expert shares some tips for successfully growing plants of any size in containers—even indoors.

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