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From Concrete to Greenery: A Garden Tranformed in Oregon
Buell Steelman and Rebecca Sams are alums of Gardens, the groundbreaking landscape architecture design/build firm in Austin, Texas. A decade ago, they traded the heat of the Southwest for the coole…
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8 of the World’s Most Beautiful Gardens
It's finally May and, for us in the Northern Hemisphere, it means one big thing: the world is in bloom again! It's the perfect time of year, then, to visit a botanical garden. Click through …
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Indoor and Outdoor Edible Gardens
By Erica Sofrina, Author of Small Changes, Dynamic Results! Feng Shui for the Western World I recently met a wonderful woman named Avis Licht whose passion is to educate people how to create beauti…
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Ditch The Lawnmower – Hire a Flock of Sheep (video)
Did you know that the single most irrigated crop in the United States is a grassy green lawn? The US has acres and acres of lawn, and we spend about $40 billion annually on seed, sod and chemicals. Th…
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Repurposed Boats
Having just spent a few days on an island known for its warm, beachy summer vacations, and cold, damp shoulder seasons (fall and spring), it became apparent to me that people who live on islands are b…
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Singing with Goats and Urban Homesteading
Laugh, learn and listen to the Green Divas Radio Show & Podcast! Our guest Green Diva, Barbara Taylor did an awesome job - not that we took it easy on her with a light schedule or anything . . …
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Two Easy Ground Covers You Can Grow (2 videos)
Simplify your life and cut down on weeding by planting a fast-growing ground cover. These two videos show and tell you about two of them: hostas for shade (on page 1) and vinca for sun or shade (…
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$3 Billion a Year Potentially Generated by Vegetables in Midwest
Research conducted at Iowa State University by David Swenson has indicated that if 28 vegetables and fruits were grown more in the states of Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin …
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Simple Ways to Create a Dog Friendly Garden
Dog lovers know that dogs are curious creatures, which leads them to smell, taste, and eat almost anything they find including bark, gravel, mulch, plants, etc. We gardeners have to be careful of thei…
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Springtime Home Improvement: DIY or Move (with Videos)
Spring may have come in like a lamb, but it often leaves behind a lion's worth of home repair projects in its wake. Is your household budget stretched so thin that it is hard to save for basic home …
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