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Advantages to Community Gardening
Join a community garden to meet other gardeners, learn about organic gardening and trade plants and seeds with other gardeners.
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Alternatives: Another Look
the alternative food system revisited.
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Community Gardening
Community Gardens are a great way for people in the city to have their own plot, as well as join up with a group of gardeners from their area. Find about how to join one, or even start your own, in this article.
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Community Gardens Alleviate Hunger
There are many benefits of community gardening such as supplying nutritious food, encouraging community involvement, sharing skills and improving the environment.
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Community Gardens: Right Livelihood
Gardening can teach us a lot about being good neighbours
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Take A Walk.
Take a walk around the block and meet your neighbours.
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The Master Gardener Program
What are Master Gardeners? They are the Girl and Boy Scouts of the horticultural world, helping us all to cross the street from gardening ignorance to information. Here is a little about what they do and how they get that way.
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A Community Garden in UK and USA
An overview of the community garden (as termed in the USA) and allotment gardening (as termed in the UK), along with resources, with notes on a model NY community garden.
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Reviving the Victory Garden
Victory gardens were a mainstay of America's WWI and WWII food production programs. For many of the same reasons, Freedom Gardens are gaining popularity.
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Eyesores in the Home Landscape- Part 1 : The Ugly Fence
A gardener on a strict budget dresses up his side of a boundary fence. Creativity and commonsense help make this backyard a more pleasant place to spend time.
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A Bit of Bog
Expand the borders of your pond with a bog garden.
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A Liner by any other name. . . .
Ocean liners, one liners, eye liners, shelf liners, POND LINERS! How do you make that all important decision? Well I can't make it for you, but I can you some food for thought!
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Ambiance
After you have built your pond, selected the plants and stocked it with fish what more is there to do? Plenty!
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An Easy Filter Project
Give your pond a new prefilter. Give yourself a break!
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Choosing Your Plants (Or Pick a Peck of Pickerel)
Lilies and Lotus and Shade OH MY! What can you grow in your pond? Here is some information I've rounded up on choosing plants for your pond. Don't forget to check out the links, both in the article and in the "Links List."
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Community Gardening Discussion
Melanie Burns shares some of the joys and challenges she encountered this season in her urban community garden plot.
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Community Gardens
A community garden brings people of all ages and descriptions together. There is no "typical" community garden. Each community garden is as unique as each community...
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Do It With Style!
State your style. Formal, or natural-there is a pond for you.
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Fences Build Good Neighbors - Part 1
A short history of fences and how popular philosophy and sentiment influenced use in residential landscaping in the United States are discussed. Basic fence types and materials to investigate are suggested for homeowners.
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Fences Part II
Part II Unique fences are discussed. A checklist of reminders for homeowners before they begin planning fences is detailed
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Grooming Daffodil Flowers
Final preparation of the daffodil before it goes to the show is the grooming and hardening process. Grooming improves the flower and makes it more show worthy. Hardening gives final conditioning to the flower, and is essential for longer show bench life.
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Hard Liners
Ocean liners, one liners, eye liners, shelf liners, POND LINERS! Here is part two in the consideration of liners. This article deals with cement, preform, and clay/bentonite ponds. As these two articles demonstrate there really is a pond liner for each location, all needs, and every budget, so no excuses! Pick your liner and. . . . <b>Pond on!</B>
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Ireland's Oldest Garden - Part I
A description of Killruddery House and Gardens near the seaside town of Bray in County Wicklow (Ireland)is like having a garden history book open wide to pages devoted to the 17th through early 19th centuries. These gardens, which date from the 1680's, are thought to be Ireland's oldest surviving formal gardens. Part I describes some of the the cultural, social and even political pressures on Ireland’s Norman – Anglo – Irish landed gentry which lead to building gardens such as Killruddery.
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Low Maintenance Gardening, Rockies Style - Part 1
Part 1 in a three part series discussing the how to's of low maintenance gardening in the Rockies, climate zones 1 to 5.
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Odds n' ends
A couple of email question, not necessarily answered, at least discussed
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Organic Gardening Magazine Revamps More Cities
Organic Gardening magazine, the Aveeno Brand and Nature's Path have chosen community gardens in Chicago, Philadelphia and Atlanta to help out with water conservation.
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Part 2 - Fabulous Shrubs for the Rockies
Second in a three part series on fabulous shrubs that thrive in Rockies gardens.
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Pond Predators
They make your blood run cold, your blood pressure sky-rocket and your pulse pound! Raccoons, herons, and kids--the unholy trio--Pond Predators!
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Preparing to Work in the Garden
There are many things to consider when planning a trip to work in the community garden plot, including food and water requirements, clothing, tools and materials.
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Pumps&amp;amp;#8211;the Heart of the Matter
How does one determine the right size? Is there really a difference in brands? If so which is the right one for your pond?
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School Victory Garden Plots
Planting a vegetable garden at school supports many educational subjects. It can also be a source for community interaction and outreach.
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Shop Til' You Drop!
The question isn't so much when to buy as where to buy. Some ideas to kick around.
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Signs of Spring!
Ways to get this year's garden and harvest started for little or no money. Forager's Calendar - what is ready to harvest now. Recipes for stocking up on field garlic, greek garlic and potato dip, and orpine relish.
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Tacky or Art? It's just a state of mind.
While you are here Read up on some inspired and innovative pond art. Take a tour of Charlotte's pond , and let your spirit soar. Then do the floating islands pond art project and join the Tacky!
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The Garden of Weeden -- Patricia Thomas
Gardening Pacific Northwest style - including that famed blue poppy!
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Water gardening in January?
Don't let the cold winds of winter fool you! Now's the time to read, dream, plan, and weather permitting, build your water garden.
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Waterfalls
Simple or complex, subtle or breath taking, a waterfall is the centerpiece of a garden.
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Why Garden
A contemplative look at why some of us garden.
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African-American Gardens - Design and Development: Part 2
An answer to the question of how African-Americans shaped and formed their domestic space as their relationships to the land changed from slavery; to tenancy; to land ownership.
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African-American Gardens - Design and Development: Part 1
Changes in interpretation of historic garden design, use and development. Empahsis is on development and design of African-American gardens in the rural American south.
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African-American Gardens - Design and Development: Part 3
A summary of some design elements and features found in African-American garden in the rural south U. S. This article also includes some thoughts on the book "African-American Gardens and Yards in the Rural South by Richard Westmacott, University of GA, Athens.
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From Autumn to Spring
What does the Titanic have in common with your pond? Ice. Ice did sink the Titanic and will destroy your pond, if precautions are not taken! Find out how to protect your pond, before it's too late!
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Grow Vegetables in Containers
Create a victory garden in containers and have homegrown food. Learn about growing a fruit and vegetable garden in small spaces.
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Ireland's Oldest Garden - Part II
A virtual tour of exiting 17th and 18th century features at Ireland's Oldest Garden, Killruddery Gardens, Bray, County Wicklow.
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Kitchen Gardens, Farmers Markets, CSAs, Oh My
Farmers markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms are both cost-effective ways to expand the variety of foods available for your family.
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Ponding Under Trees-- It's a Shady Practice, but not Illegal!
Can you enjoy a water garden under the trees? I certainly do! This article will consider location, building, and plants. Future articles will discuss the filter and cleaning needs of the shady pond.
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Spring in the Water Garden
Is it starve a cold and feed a fever? Yes! Spring fever that is! Feed it by cleaning out the winter weary pond, repotting water plants and getting ready to enjoy the summer season.
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Trees: The Gift of Love
Suggests an interesting way for gardeners and others to give gifts that keep giving and also aid the environment.
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Back to the Foodshed
I am returning to the issue of foodsheds because they play an important role in understanding how food travels within a society and how we can develop an action plan which will move us toward community food security.
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Food Is A Human Right.
It is time we accepted the fact that food is a human right.
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