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Cajun Chicken Maquechoux

Chicken Maquechoux is one of the most wonderful, rich and flavorful chicken dishes there is. This has been one of our favorites for years, and is absolutely best cooked at the end of summer, when the corn is rich and ripe with plenty of other fresh vegetables available to round out the chicken and sausage. Fresh [...]

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Squash Bugs and Ways to Deal With Them

In our last eNewsletter we talked about how the squash bugs were wreaking havoc on our squash, zucchini and pumpkin plants.  We asked our readers to talk to us and let us know their ideas and experiences in dealing with this critter that destroys otherwise healthy and productive plants overnight. We found out that these bugs are [...]

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The Food Movement, Rising

We here at Terroir Seeds have been reading  Michael Pollan for several years now. He is well written, deeply thoughtful, unafraid to examine and show his deepest feelings, emotions and mindset on food and where it comes from. He writes with a common sense approach that is refreshing to read in today’s over-hyped, shrill hyperbole. [...]

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Growing Your Salad In A Container Garden

We recently completed our second salad growing bed in our greenhouse, and here’s how we did it! Greenhouse Salad Container Gardening We started the salad growing bed so that we would have fresh salad greens during the Fall, Winter and early Spring when the garden wasn’t growing or things were just coming up. We can [...]

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Supermarkets Slow Down Yet Gardens Are Growing

Consumer’s wallets have tightened significantly since 2008, when the global economic slowdown started, led by the food safety scares of tomatoes and peppers during that summer. 2009 is the first year that fruit and vegetable sales have dropped, with fruit down 12% and vegetables down 6%. The trend is from more expensive fruit and veggies to [...]

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