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4 Ways to Eat Your Flowers

As many of our favorite flowers blossom, we're planning to incorporate the edible varieties into our menus.  Here are four favorite recipes to add a bit of color and flora to your fare: Above: Of…

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4 Ways to Bring Nature Into Your Life

Did you miss out on this year’s Earth Day festivities? Well, don’t worry, it’s not too late to celebrate. Springtime is an excellent time to reacquaint yourself with your natural roots. After months o…

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Low-Stress Organic Veggie & Herb Gardening

This is our first year in our new home. It’s thrilling to see the hundreds of tulips poking through the snow dust. The previous owner has some nice flower beds and a herb bed, but no vegetable garden.…

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5 Ways to Beat Stress

Are you stressed out? Have you been stressed recently? Odds are, you answered yes. My advice to you? Toss the technology! These days, technology has infiltrated our lives. Mail travels at light-speed,…

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5 Tasty Crops You Can Grow in a Container

The season is finally changing and for those with green thumbs, they're already prepping and planning for their summer vegetable gardens. A garden is a great way to save money, control the quality of …

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4 Steps to Starting a Vegetable Garden

Avis Licht is a landscape gardener, educator, and author of the wonderful book, The Spring Garden Made Easy. Her passion is to create beautiful gardens that incorporate edibles that can be harvested y…

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13 Tips to Create Your Own Healing Garden

Since ancient times, many civilizations have realized the healing qualities of gardens with their fruit trees, flowers, water, and songbirds. The earliest hospitals in the Western world were infirmari…

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Cities Continue to Demonize Vegetable Gardens

From 2008 to 2009, home gardening increased from 36 million to 43 million households. It appears to be continuing its upward trend. As Mother Earth News puts it, "The worse the economy, the more peopl…

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5 Fragrant Plants for Garden Parties

You’ve taken the time to place tea lights around your garden, planning the perfect ambient glow for your party. A tiny bonfire is lit, and bowls of fresh produce are all you need for seasonal decorati…

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CEO of Nature’s Path Talks About GMOs

Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Arran Stephens, CEO of Nature's Path. For those who don't know, Nature's Path is the largest organic breakfast foods company in North America, and one of …

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