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City chick gets her hands dirty on her urban homestead planting an edible garden, raising backyard chickens, preserving the harvest and working toward a greener future

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Entries Tagged as 'gardening'

New York Botanical Garden

August 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Apparently there is a theme to my sight-seeing when traveling and it involves lots of plants. What a shocker!
I miss plants - a lot. My friend Denise is also a plant junkie, so visiting the New York Botanical Garden became a fun excursion for us while she was here visiting. It’s not super easy to [...]

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Tags: design · gardening · plants · traveling

White House Vegetable Garden

August 24th, 2010 · 4 Comments

I mentioned in my last post that we got to see the White House vegetable garden from a far when we were there visiting. I thought I would share my few photos from it because it’s pretty and also kind of funny to me.

It’s hard to see exactly what they are growing in here, but [...]

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Tags: gardening · traveling · vegetables · victory garden

Mount Vernon

August 12th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Sometimes you visit a place so spectacular that no amount of pictures can capture its magnificence. This post is filled with way too many pictures, but nothing will compare with seeing Mount Vernon in person. You must visit if you ever get the opportunity.

Mount Vernon was the estate of George Washington and it is located [...]

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Tags: design · gardening · traveling

My New York Garden

August 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Okay, not totally. But after the first few days of moving into New York for the summer, I couldn’t help it. I couldn’t stand to have a perfectly sunny windowsill sitting empty. And fresh herbs from the grocery store never last as long as I want them too.

So I have the beginnings of a windowsill [...]

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Tags: containers · frugal · herbs

Community Garden Inspiration

July 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Up the street from our apartment in Brooklyn is a community garden I have admired for awhile called 6/15 Green. Several community gardens are located throughout the New York area and it is always a delightful surprise to see them tucked in between tall buildings. This one has some fruit trees and many irregular-shaped garden [...]

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Tags: gardening · green action · localvore