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Planning and Planting Your Spring Garden

Now that the fun and excitement of Christmas is over, New Year’s has come and gone and life is getting back to whatever consists of normal for you and your family, it’s time to dig into that stack of garden seed catalogs and start planning the eternally anticipated Spring garden. After spending a little time [...]

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The Cycle of Terroir

The Cycle of Terroir- From the Soil, to the Seed, to the Food You Eat

Healthy soil plus healthy seed grows tasty food and healthy people. A simple, systematic approach to healthy soil, seed and food is presented.

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Fall Garden Basket

Ready to Start Your Fall Garden?

Fall and Winter Gardening- Plan in the Summer for Cool Season Harvests Many people, when asked about Fall and Winter gardening in the height of Summer, will want to wait a bit before planning and planting anything for the Fall. Yet, that is exactly what you must do to have a spectacular cool season garden [...]

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Pan Braised Carrots

Braised and Marinated Carrot Recipes

Here’s two new recipes that use fresh from the garden carrots in unusual but delicious ways. Fresh, local food in the best way possible!

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Constructing a Recycled Growing Bed

We’ve created a short presentation of the process used to build our raised garden beds and greenhouse growing bed. This is meant to be an idea generator, not a step-by-step how-to. Hopefully, this will help “out of the box” thinking of how to accomplish this in your garden or backyard! Please let us know what [...]

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