Red budgets may just be leading to green thumbs. Throughout Humboldt County, nurseries, gardening and feed shops are all reporting increases in first-timers looking to plant vegetable gardens or try their hands at animal husbandry -- and
Growing your own food can be rewarding
For decades, Honley Etherton has worked the land in Madison County, growing tomatoes, corn, tobacco, okra, cucumbers and more. He and Alma, his wife of 47 years, grow most of their own food, and he's made a living selling the rest of what they grow.
It's not too late to plant a vegetable garden this year, and you can learn the art and the science of starting and maintaining your own backyard garden from Wanda Knapik of MyLocalGarden at Bernardsville Public Library on Tuesday, June 9 at 7:00 pm.
On a June morning, nothing is more pleasant than a stroll in the yard, just to enjoy the view. By now, the planting has been done, seeds have sprouted and flowers in perennial beds are popping out everywhere. It's not too hot yet, and we've had plenty of rain. So far, everything's good in the garden. With the hard work done, the gardener goes into maintenance mode. Fluff the mulch, clip dead ...
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Despair shows on the faces of many people at soup kitchens and in unemployment lines here. And desperation is evident in Craigslist posts from a single mom who needs $950 for medical bills and a man who can afford to pay just $650 for a used car he needs to job hunt. There is something else, though, in this shrinking city beset by chronic poverty and the unraveling of the industry that once made ...
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FAR HILLS – Learning in the great outdoors, students from the Willow School of Gladstone got to taste chocolate mint, smell a root beer plant and dig in the dirt all in one morning with a celebrated local chef.
(ARA) - When Bambi invites all his friends to dinner, make sure it's not in your yard. If you don't protect your landscaping, Bambi and his friends will be crunching tulips like candy and popping peas right off the vine.
(ARA) - Summer 2009 may be a bit less dry than last year in some areas of the country, according to the National Weather Service's Seasonal Drought Outlook.
Vegetable gardeners were going green long before “green” went main stream. We have been recycling food waste for decades, storing up rain water in barrels to use when the weather runs dry and so many other things. But now that the world has finally caught on with the green movement, it is time to pass along a list of items that many might overlook and consider trash, but really are great to use in the vegetable garden. Cardboard Egg Cartons If you buy your eggs in Styrofoam cartons then y
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