Summer Solstice
Time flies and here we are already at the summer solstice. The sunrise was at 5:30 am and the sun […]
2011 Vegetable Varieties
It is always fun to see what fellow urban homesteaders have growing in their backyard. After carefully sorting through my
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2011 Vegetable Garden Plan
We are working with a small space for our garden this year, which is always a fun challenge. I have
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This has been the summer of visiting great American gardens! I enjoyed a long visit to George Washington’s homestead at
White House Vegetable Garden
I mentioned in my last post that we got to see the White House vegetable garden from a far when
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There is a changing of the guard going on outside in the garden. The change is most evident in the
May Ripening
This is the first year where my vegetable garden has really been where I have wanted it to be by
Vegetable Beds Planted
The raised vegetables beds have been planted periodically since early March. The cold weather spinach and kale went in first
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For those of you who commented on my last post or emailed me asking to read the research paper I
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victory gardenGrowing a Victory Garden
Recently I have been working on a small research paper about the history of Victory Gardens in the US during
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