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National Organic gardening

Gardening: What to plant in April in Southern Missouri

April is here and that means planting season is in full swing here in southern Missouri. We had a very mild winter, in fact almost no winter at all...
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Venerable Mother Earth News promotes organic gardening with an industrial twist

This month's edition of the venerable Mother Earth News' supports organic gardening, and is full of helpful guides and information.While...
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The dirty little secrets of a Native American garden

Winter is the season when Southeastern Native Americans worked their magic on the soil. The results were bountiful harvests from relatively small...
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High Mowing Seeds: an organic success story

At the local Wegman's Grocery store, in their seasonal section promoting gardening, a rack of brightly colored seed packets is in the front,...
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Interview: Seed Savers Exchange

Seed Savers Exchange is an organization worthy of support by the organic gardening community. Since 1975, they have been working to protect our...
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Building an off-grid greenhouse for pennies on the dollar

Everyone that grows their own food has at one time thought about growing food year round, most of them if not all never do it because of a few...
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Tumbling tomatoes make good marinara

When a bumper crop of tomatoes are ripe, full and tumbling over itmight be a bit of a challenge to keep up with, but wouldn’t you agree that...
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The Tarnish On The American Dream

My parents were of the World War 2 generation. To them, the American dream was defined as:get a good jobget marriedbuy a homehave kidsretire on a...
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Couple goes one year without buying groceries

Rachel Hoff and Tom Ferguson of Vallejo California have a quarter acre of land and after watching a few documentaries such as Food Inc. decided to...
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Preserving Mint

Mint is a lovely, fragrant, delicous addition to any garden, container or windowsill. Growing mint is easy as it is very forgiving of its...
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