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Spring Chicks Yield Fall Harvest
Greg Peterson
Chickens…I believe that EVERYONE who has even a postage-stamp-size yard can easily raise chickens. Yes you heard me right, they are easy to keep, quieter than your neighborhood dog, live as long as dogs, eat your food scraps and give you something to eat just about every day.
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One City-Dweller’s Story of “Getting a Garden”
Margaret Bruning
I live in a condo and like to walk through my neighborhood looking for edible treasures as the alleys in Phoenix are loaded with figs and citrus. As a way to meet my neighbors I always ask their permission to pick. I have found that they love to share their abundance and have someone else help “harvest” and enjoy their fruit. This is also how I stumbled into my own garden.
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What’s in Your Valentines Day Roses???
Maura Yates
Love is in the air as Valentine's Day approaches and rose growers everywhere have geared up once again to help Cupid's arrow fly. So let's take a look at the pesticide content of conventional roses and see if they are really providing the kind of “I Love You” message we are sending or receiving.
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Recycle useless items into new garden tools
Yvonne Savio
Dreaming about buying that new "perfect" tool? Let me suggest that you first consider recycling and inventing new uses for household items. Some items can gain new lives as garden tools, and developing new uses for dependable old standbys can open a whole new world of possibilities. This approach often proves to be more productive and certainly less expensive. All of these "new" tools will help ease your gardening chores for many years, and you'll feel the pride and delight that comes with creating a new use for what might have been discarded.
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BackYard Orchard Culture
By Maura Yates and Greg Peterson
When you think of an orchard, do you envision acres of perfectly spaced apple trees and workers on ladders picking the fruit with harvest colors in the background? Are you then discouraged because you realize you don’t have the property to produce a bountiful harvest to delight your family’s taste buds? No so any more!
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Tomatoes in December
Steven Garrett
There is an easy way and a hard way to get ripe tomatoes in December.
The easy way is to head to your local supermarket and buy them. The hard way is to raise them, pick them green in early November, put them in a box in the basement, cover them with a newspaper, and then be patient.
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Permaculture: Pathways to Sustainable Communities
Bob Ewing
A society is defined, in large part, by how it grows and transports food from the farm to the kitchen.
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Mesquite: It’s Not Just forBarbeque Anymore
Kevin Dahl
Charcoal made from mesquite wood gives grilled meats a unique, rather western flavor, but the seedpods from this common Arizona tree are a culinary treat as well.
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To Compost or to Non-Compost? That is the Question
Greg Peterson
Have you ever wanted to start composting but the prospect of building your compost pile stopped you in your tracks?
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The Community Garden
Bob Ewing
Everyone likes to win. Everyone wants to live in a neighborhood that is clean and green. Everyone benefits from eating fresh, naturally grown food. And most everyone likes a sense of community with the people who live around them.
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