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How to get an early start on your vegetable garden
From purchasing seeds to starting seedlings and transplanting them outdoors, find all the information you need to improve yields in your vegetable garden.
Soil and Water Stewardship Week: A time to stop and think
Each day of your life, you pick up a fork or spoon and eat. Most all of us eat at least three times a day, but do you ever think about where all of your food — and the food everybody else eats — comes from? For some, the answer may be from my freezer
Are organic foods healthier or is it just the ‘halo effect’?
BETHESDA, Md. — If cookies are “organic,” they should be better for you, right? And worth more money, right? Jenny Wan-chen Lee, a graduate student at Cornell University, has been fascinated with a phenomenon known as “the halo effect” for some time. Halo effect Psychologists have long recognized that how we perceive a particular trait
‘Father of the Qualified Herdbook’: McKarns receives national award
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. – At an Ohio Holstein Association winter forum in 1986, Columbiana County dairyman Bill McKarns raised an idea about opening the national association’s registry to include grade cattle.
A beginner’s guide to starting seeds indoors
Starting your own seeds can give you more vegetable options, save money and make your garden more productive. Learn how to successfully start seeds indoors.
Leftover rations
In her quest to reduce food waste at home, Kym Seabolt is channeling her grandmother, who was a genius in using leftover food to make delicious dishes.
Lady Buggs Pharm honors ancestral ties to plants and nature
Lady Buggs Pharm honors ancestral ties to her urban garden which grows traditional fruits and vegetables as well as medicinal plants.
How to grow your own microgreens
Learn what you can grow as microgreens and how to start growing your own microgreens at home in nine simple steps.
Don’t forget, you make a difference
“In the good earth lies your richest blessing; ’tis the fortune of your life — you’ll want for naught; you’ll know no sighs nor sorrow; you’ll neither beg nor borrow; today provides for tomorrow; joy and honor is your portion and your lot.” — translation of Yiddish song at the turn of the century encouraging
‘If you knew my dad …’
I’d just got home from work that day. It was this spring, May 19. I was in my bathroom and I happened to look out the window.
