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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 […]

How to Outsmart Your Weeds

Our Favorite Weeding Tips by Sandy Swegel It’s Spring.  Your plants are tiny and growing. Your weeds are huge and growing.  If you want a nice garden, you really do have to outsmart your weeds and deal with the weeds that are gobbling up your soil nutrients and drinking your water.  Weeding doesn’t have to […]