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65From Books to Tools- Great Gardening Gifts for Kids
If you are a gardener and have children are your children gardening with you? If not, now is a good time to get them started, and if they are do they have their own tools. Gardening is a rewarding way to...
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81Growing Great Beans
Beans are another one of my favourite foods, red beans and rice, baked beans or refried beans with eggs for breakfast; it really does not matter, I like beans. For the home gardener, there are two...
9 comments73How To Raise Chickens In The City
My thoughts of late have been turning to chickens, well actually eggs, but chickens are the delivery vehicle so chickens are what I am pondering. I know that it is possible to keep 3-5 laying hens in...
9 comments66Children's Gardening Books
One of my favourite books about children and gardening is aimed at teachers rather than childen. The book is Caroyl Nuttall's A Children’s Food Forest’ The book was published in 1996 and is based on a...
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58Gifts That Give
There are many reasons for giving someone a gift, birthdays wedding, new baby, graduation, Mothers Day and Fathers day and Christmas are just a few special times of the year when we purchase a gift for people...
2 comments58Yards and Lawns What do We Really Need?
Why are we obsessed with the lawn, sure this s changing but slowly very, very slowly. There are several reasons for the change. One, it is expensive to maintain a lawn that looks like it somehow got...
4 comments64TV or not TV That is The Question
It has been 15 months since we stopped watching TV. We have two sets but they only see action when we rent a movie or put on a DVD from our slowly growing collection. We stopped watching TV when we...
13 comments58Children and Cooking
Children learn by doing and they will imitate what others, especially their parents, do, at least while they are young. In their teens, and perhaps even earlier, they may rebel against their parent’s...
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56Your Backyard: A Benign Obession
My childhood would have been very different if I did not live in what, seemed at the time, to be a house with a big backyard. When I was very young my mother used to put me in my carriage and place it...
13 comments57Water, Water Everywhere- No.
It is four in the morning and the call of nature pulls you from your dreams of lakes and ponds, flowing rivers of endless water, you feel the need and get up and head for the bathroom. When finished you...
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