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Christmas may be children's favorite time of year, but for gardeners the season of dreams comes immediately after the holidays when the seed catalogs begin to arrive. Seed catalogs have been a direct-mail staple for generations of backyard growers ...

Seed catalogs feed winter gardening dreams - Elkhart Truth

An organic farming operation on the Muskoday First Nation is being held up as a model for Saskatoon's community gardens. The Muskoday Organic Workers Co-op was started this year in the hopes of making the Muskoday community more ecologically sound ...

Community gardens touted for biodiversity, healthy food - Saskatoon Star Phoenix

The green revolution is also an evolution. A purse made from seat belts, tires or gum wrappers is greener than leather, but not if it sits in the back of the closet or worse yet, is put in the trash unused. "Don't buy an item just because it's made ...

Greener gifts from Blue Sky to (yikes) worms - Minneapolis Star Tribune

In the 1860s, German researcher Julius von Sachs added different nutrients to plants growing in water. He was trying to discover what plants need to live. Today we know that nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, sulfur, magnesium and a few other elements ...

FERTILIZER FACTS - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Tucked away in Sri Lanka's hill country, on the outskirts of the tea-growing capital Nuwara Eliya, lies Warwick Gardens, one of the island's most peaceful hideaways. The abandoned tea-planter's bungalow turned boutique hotel opened its doors a year ...

Take to the Sri Lankan Hills - Time

Editor's note: In this series, we ask a North County worker or business owner to tell us about his or her job. This week, we take a look inside Escondido's Hawthorne Country Store, which under different owners has operated at its West Grand Avenue ...

AT WORK IN NC: Country store helps region hang onto rural life - North County Times

Were we better off in the 1950s than we are now? The Labour MP Frank Field thinks that we were, commending the fact that back then, instead of getting drunk, stabbing one another and watching Strictly Come Dancing, the mass of British people were ...

Thanks, Frank – we’ve never had it so condescending - Times Online

Mayor-elect John Stromberg picks a tomato in his garden Friday at his Ridge Road home as part of his vision for sustainability in Ashland. Like so many newcomers to Ashland, John and Jane Stromberg moved here rather suddenly, falling in love with the ...

From transplant to leader - Ashland Daily Tidings

It seems to be a widely held myth that World War II was the main agent for moving the United States out of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Cornell University Professor George F. Warren, an important adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt on rural ...

Family Farms Pulled Us Out of the Great Depression - Common Dreams

Could any man be less relevant to the politics and culture of our time than an old Kentucky poet-farmer who is so out of step with the times that he refuses to use a computer and still tills his earth using draft horses? And yet, given the converging ...