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Let’s Not Call Them Depression Gardens - Freedom Gardens

Self-Sufficiency Series Let's not call them depression gardens, but freedom gardens. The great depression of 1929 lasted for ten years. During that time "Depression Relief Gardens" struggled for...

24 comments    organic gardening organic garden
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Self Sufficiency - Saving Vegetable Seeds

Self Sufficiency - Saving Vegetable Seeds There are special seed producers that continue to offer heirloom seeds. These are vegetableseeds that have not been hybridized. A hybrid seed (plant) is one that has...

17 comments    family food gardening
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How to start your own victory garden

With our economy in complete disarray and a ton of "frugal living" tips flooding the Internet everyday - more and more people are getting back to the basics - including gardening. One topic that is starting...

10 comments    home gardening church
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Permaculture Beginnings

Permaculture has been spreading across the world for nearly fourty years now. When I tell people I have studied permaculture, both a 72 hour introduction course and a 72 hour design certificate course,...

17 comments    food energy environment
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Community Gardening

Gardening is a wonderful way to turn strangers into neighbours; to make friends and develop a sense of community. Community gardens vary in size, I have been part of a community garden with ten plots and...

7 comments    gardening garden vegetables
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Glorification of the Ghetto

I am going to start with two definitions... glorification: to treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered. ghetto: a section of a city, esp. a thickly populated slum...

1 comment    children garden black
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How to Start a Vegetable Garden

In the midst of prolific cell phones and high speed internet access with your Happy Meal, people all over the urban world are experiencing a new garden renaissance. Regardless of whether you live in an...

6 comments    gardening garden how to garden
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How To Garden in the City: Creative Urban Gardening Ideas

Gardening is one of the most popular and beneficial activities in the world. It produces fresh, healthy produce for families and helps reduce food bills in tough economic times. It produces flowers and...

2 comments    gardening hydroponics
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Gardening in Limited Space and Other Gardening Options

So you want to garden but your backyard is small or non-existent; well do not let that discourage you, if you have the will, you will find the way. The first step, as in all forms of gardening, is to...

43 comments    health advice how to
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WHO IS HILLSIDE TRA

Hillside Tenants and Residents Association to give us our Sunday name are a group of people who said we wanted change in the area that we live in. We live in a small Village in East Renfrewshire called...

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