Archive for the ‘Garden’ Category
Plant a Row for the Hungry
In: Garden
28 May 2007Plant a Row for the Hungry Approximately 25 million people, including 9.9 million children, have substandard diets or must resort to seeking emergency food because they cannot always afford the food they need. In the past year, the demand for hunger assistance has increased by 40%, and research shows that hundreds of hungry children and [...]
Adventures in gardening
In: Garden
25 May 2007I went to the farmer’s market and impulsively bought my first herb plants: rosemary, chives, and cilantro. They smell so good!
Sunflowers!
In: Garden|Noteworthy
24 May 2007I know — I could grow sunflowers on my balcony, for the flowers, the seeds AND the shade. Plus my grungy balcony would look pretty for a change. I love it. Facts about Sunflowers
Planning a balcony garden
In: 90 percent|Food|Garden
23 May 2007The nice thing about living in San Diego is that it’s never too late to start a garden. It’s just a matter of what to plant and when to plant it. Oh, and where. Kind of like the five w’s we learned in journalism class [who, what, where, when and um, how -- I know, [...]
Living off the land
23 May 2007Freedom is growing your own food. That’s the philosophy of Jules Dervaes and his three grown children. They are supporting themselves by farming almost every inch of their 1/10th-acre yard in Pasadena, California — complete with chickens, ducks and goats. Their amazing urban farm, which yields three TONS of yummy organic food per year, is [...]
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