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How to Get Hefty Discounts on Your Seeds

John — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:39:11 +0000

Vigilant gardeners are always on the lookout for deals on seed so here a a few shopping tips.

1. Check out online sales. Catalog suppliers such as Johnny’s Seeds regularly have sales on their web sites, often at 60-80% off the original price. These are often discontinued products that didn’t make it into the [...read more]

Circle of Life

Phyllis — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:24:19 +0000

Anyone who is contemplating getting into the backyard chicken movement needs to answer this inevitable question: what are you going to do when they stop laying eggs? The precise moment when this needs to be answered is as fixed as the tides; a hen is most productive in the first year of her life [...read more]

Rediscovering the Joys of Juicing

John — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:29:55 +0000

When Phyllis and I married we received a Braun juicer as a wedding gift. We used it a few times but eventually it found its way to the back of the appliance closet where it sat undisturbed for a decade and a half. This summer, during one of my cleaning jags, I re-discovered that [...read more]

Chipmunk Summer

John — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:33:36 +0000

I have always had a soft spot in my heart for chipmunks. Sure, they are rodents, but so are squirrels and rabbits, and with their brown and white fur and dorsal racing stripes, they are, in a word, cute. At least, they WERE cute before they started terrorizing my garden. At mediaOrganic, 2011 will [...read more]

My Edible Landscape

John — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:30:49 +0000

I’ve been quite remiss and lazy in my posting since the summer turned hot. In fact, I’ve been lazy with just about everything. During spring, the garden is the excuse to get outside into the fresh air and do something productive. But after several months of seeding, re-potting, shoveling, raking, hauling and blogging, one [...read more]