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Garden Journals – A Compromise

Keep Record of Your Garden There’s nothing like April 15th, Tax Day, to remind us how much we wish we kept better records. I have matching boxes of good intentions. A box of receipts thrown together from the year with barely decipherable notes that need to be turned into reliable tax deductions. And a box […]

Fill your hummingbird feeders!

Why You Have to Keep the Hummingbirds Fed Hummingbirds are on the move.  Do you have food for them? Fill your hummingbird feeders! I learned a new thing about hummingbirds this week.  If you had a happy home for them last year with food and water, it is quite likely the very same birds will […]

A Simple Act of Planting a Tree

Plant A Tree. “Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The ‘simple act of planting a tree’ not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.”– Paul Hawken, Smith and Hawken Queen Bee Becky of BBB Seed and I were talking the other day about how many fruit […]