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Grow Your Own Foods

For many of us, the recession has prompted the review of our family budgets. And in some ways maybe this isn't such a bad thing! I know that for many people, the opportunity to grow your own food may not have...

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Make 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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How 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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How 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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Growing Sprouts at Home

You can ensure that you have a constant, inexpensive supply of fresh vegetables all year if you grow your own sprouts.  While most people are aware of bean sprouts and alfalfa sprouts they may not know about...

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Growing 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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In 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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How 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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Growing 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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Marye 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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