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82Growing Strawberries
Strawberrries are a perenniel herb that can be grown in most areas of the United States,as well as Canada. Certain varieties can even be grown in Alaska. They grow best in a cool, moist climate...
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68Make a garden on your balcony
Make your own vegetable garden on your balcony. This article shares some insight about urban gardening, and how you could create a small container garden within a limited space.
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68The Good, The Bad & The Organic
I have recently heard several TV news reports (as well as upon the grapevines of the misguided & ignorant) quoting recent research by the UK Food Standards Agency, which has suggested that organic foods...
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57How to be a Locavore:The 100 Mile Diet
Food, the way that it is done now, has a huge carbon footprint. It is transported for thousands of miles using fossil fuels. Even if you have a dairy a mile away from your home the milk you drink likely travels several hundred miles at the very least before it gets to your table.
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68How to survive the Economic Recession
I keep reading about “green shoots of recovery,” and “housing bottoming out,” and “banks repaying taxpayer money,” but let’s face it – these statements are so far removed from the truth there...
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67How to save all your Fresh Grown Zucchini
It is not actually overloaded yet, but on a daily basis now I go out to my little patch of earth to see what else is happening out there ---- as if a fairy waved a magic wand or they were vegetable rabbits or...
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62Marye Audet:Sustainable Gardening Hubs
With some planning and some instruction you can preserve the food that you grow so it will last until the next growing season. Here are hubs on a variety of gardening topics, to help you in your quest for self sufficiency.
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59Growing your own food is healthy, cheap, and fun!
There are several saying that come to mind when I think about the trend of growing our own food. One is “deja vu”. Have we been there before? Another is “What goes around, comes around.” Years ago,...
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72Square Foot Gardening - Growing Your Own Vegetables
We have had a garden every year since we were married. It wasn't until last year though that we had a very productive garden. Last spring we built raised beds and tried our hand at Square Foot Gardening, a...
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57In Review: The Urban Homestead
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living In The Heart Of The City, by Kelly Coyne and Eric Knutzen, is an Anarchists Cookbook for a new type of revolution. Don't think that I mean it contains...
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