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Keeping Community Gardeners Engaged
Once community gardeners begin enjoying the fruits of their labors, they’ll be hooked. Here are some ideas for encouraging interaction.
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garden ideas inspiration
Keeping Community Gardeners Engaged
Once community gardeners begin enjoying the fruits of their labors, they’ll be hooked. Here are some ideas for encouraging interaction.
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How to Start a Community Garden
If gardening with friends and neighbors sounds like fun, you are a candidate for community gardening. All across the land neighborhoods and communities are digging in. Not since the Victory Gardens of WWII have community gardens been so popular.
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How to Organize a Community Garden
Running the garden day-to-day requires that someone be in charge of the garden, volunteers, and activities. Forming a garden club helps fulfill duties that get the garden off the ground: establishing rules, reviewing applications, and assigning individual plots....
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The Junior Master Gardener Program: How Gardening Can Help Your Child Grow
Here’s a surefire way to teach your child how to do better in school, become more involved in the community, develop initiative, and help people in need: Enroll him or her in your local Junior Master Gardener program. Here's everything you need to know.
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Grow Food, Give Food
If you’re a gardener, you already know that nothing beats the taste and nutrition of fresh-picked vegetables. Growing your own garden can improve your health, save you money, increase the sustainability of your lifestyle, decrease your carbon footprint, and—perhaps most importantly—help a lot of people in need.
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Why Victory Gardens Still Matter
I am a life-long gardener. Growing up in rural Oregon, I was taught by my parents to grow, can, and cook food – all good old skills that seem to be so rare these days. But they weren’t rare during World War II, when growing food became a matter of national security.
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Together, Let’s GroMoreGood
Here are ways Scotts Miracle Gro is encouraging kids to enjoy the outdoors, while at the same time, protecting nature and all its beings.
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Meet the Urban Gardeners
Urban gardeners use salvaged materials and creativity to build a mini-farm in their backyard. Learn from their experience to grow your own urban garden.
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Gardening with an HOA
If you live in a subdivision, development, or condo, chances are you have to deal with an HOA (Homeowners Association). While the goal of this organization is to protect the value of your land by enforcing the rules, sometimes those rules can seem a bit unfair to those who like to grow their own food. Some communities limit gardening to back or side yards only, while others prohibit it altogether....
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5 Excellent Heirloom Vegetable Books
Discover what these five exceptional heirloom vegetable books have to say about the history, use, and importance of these valuable plants.
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Bonnie Plants & AmpleHarvest.org
Bonnie Plants and AmpleHarvest.org are uniting the power of growing with the power of caring to bring access to fresh produce into more communities through donations to local food pantries.
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Your Gorgeous Front Yard Garden
Yes, you can plant vegetables and herbs in the front yard! Just keep in mind that while some neighborhoods may celebrate your efforts, others will frown. If your community has strict HOA policies, review them first, then check out these beautiful ways to work edibles into the front yard
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Find Your Garden Planting Zone
Knowing your garden planting zone (aka hardiness zone) can help you determine the best times and varieties to plant. Find your zone with this USDA map.
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Creative Ways to Design Your Garden
Designing a garden is fun with these 3 creative ways to plan. Visual, list-focused, or detailed—choose a style that suits your personality and garden goals.
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Strawberries Introduce Kids to Natural Sweets from the Garden
Get kids to love healthy, natural sweets such as strawberries and cherry tomatoes by introducing them to garden-fresh produce, which is the sweetest kind.
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Growing Swiss Chard
Swiss chard is both edible and ornamental. Learn tips for growing Swiss chard and add lovely color and gourmet flavor to your vegetable and herb garden.
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Save Money Growing Vegetables and Herbs
Save money growing vegetables and herbs at home. You'll make fewer trips to the grocery store, and your food will be fresher. Get started here.
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How to Grow a Gigantic Cabbage
In Bonnie Plants' 3rd Grade Cabbage Program, kids get the chance to grow a huge cabbage that could win them $1000. Find out more here.
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Tips for Growing Heirloom Tomatoes (from Market Farmers!)
Market farmers grow heirloom tomatoes by the bushel, selling their harvests at farm stands and markets, and through CSAs. In other words, they’re heirloom tomato growing experts. Garden writer Julie Martens Forney had a chance to interview several seasoned market farmers and talk to them about their tried-and-true methods for growing heirloom tomatoes.
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The Soil is Alive. Really!
In the soil beneath your feet, there’s an invisible world filled with life-and-death drama. Scientists call this world the soil food web. This web features a diversity of creatures, from microscopic bacteria, fungi, and algae, to mites and nematodes, to earthworms, ants, spiders, and plant roots.
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Rooftop Gardening
It can be difficult to grow a garden in an urban environment. Garden writer Ellen Spector Platt shares her tips for rooftop gardening.
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