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From My Garden to Yours

Now is a good time to create infrastructure for your future garden

Utter the word “farm,” and most everyone will picture vast acreages of monocrop agriculture undulating across broad sweeps of North America’s prairies or California’s Imperial Valley

Fungus among us

During my school days looking for shrooms, I became enamored with the beauty of the Great Cypress Swamp.

As our soils mature, a series of composting species evolve populations. Many agricultural practices can destroy this progression.

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How have we ended up manipulating genes, terraforming, and changing the climate to satiate our hunger?

For gardeners to effectively compete with subsidized corporate plantations’ low-cost foods, we need to take advantage of recently developed appropriate technology

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The fact that so many of us live Earth Day every day is a wonderful thing!

Living in the woods surrounds my family with what should be a daily reminder of why Earth Day is every day

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When you start getting old like me, even your best efforts will not stave off the inevitable aging processes

Going to seed

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The initial 20 percent of effort during any project will accomplish 80 percent of the intended goals.

Slow gardening: taking the time to garden right

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When I ask fellow travelers about their projects, they usually describe their gardens in terms of size, shape and limitations.

Creative gardening

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While interacting with the reality surrounding us at our homes, we frequently practice the principles of permaculture.

Permaculture

Last call

Growing seasons encircling the calendar offer certain advantages to Central Florida gardeners, but the details bring the bliss back to reality.

Growing seasons encircling the calendar offer certain advantages to Central Florida gardeners, but the details bring the bliss back to reality.

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Just a few degrees of temperature difference can spell survival for many plants for the whole year.

Time to “make hey”

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Produce from my Sundew Gardens is now available online.

Nano-gardening

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I both focus on avoiding the negative and attracting the positive

Gardening Resolutions

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The best plan would have been to start the crops soon enough to reap a harvest by now.

Cold rain and snow

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Keeping it simple for the holidays is the only way to maintain any semblance of sanity.

Cooking with the harvest

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I will admit to never having much success at growing spinach.

Eat to the beet