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Growing Mushrooms in Your Own Garden

Have you ever considered growing your own mushrooms? Even if you haven’t, if you are a mushroom lover, or at least mushroom-curious, then you must read on. To set things straight, mushrooms are fungi, not plants. Fungi play an important role on earth as soil builders and nutrient recyclers among other things, and there are […]
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Holiday Wreath Traditions

Every year a lot of households locally and globally decorate their homes with a wreath of some kind usually hanging on the exterior of their front doors or inside their home above a fireplace mantle or going up a staircase. Some even mount a wreath on the front grill of their car or truck to […]
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Vertical Gardening Advantages and Ideas

If you grow vertically, you can squeeze more crops into less space.  The best book I’ve found to date on the subject is “How to Grow More Vegetables, (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine” by John Jeavons. What if you have […]
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Autumn Gardening

We are well into fall with winter just around the corner and so far, it has been everything under the rainbow. Sunny, rainy, stormy, windy, calm, blustery, warm, and cold. Waiting for our first frost but in no hurry! I always look forward to all the seasons out here on the coast. The fall colors […]
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Fulfilling our Community Garden Mission

It looks like another amazing year for our community garden! I personally have had the pleasure to be involved with this garden from inception as one of the founders, as a board member, and as a volunteer. I never knew I could be a gardener, let alone be a part of helping a community garden […]
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PNW Lawn Alternatives

More homeowners are looking for alternative ways to landscape their homes for a variety of reasons, including a concern for conserving water, the high cost and labor of maintaining a lawn, the repeated use of fertilizers and herbicides, and often to replace lawns just not doing well or dying under trees. There are many alternatives […]
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