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spring planting
We typically just plant a four foot x four foot raised bed in the square foot style for our spring garden. When things calm down a bit, we’ll expand the…
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spring planting
We typically just plant a four foot x four foot raised bed in the square foot style for our spring garden. When things calm down a bit, we’ll expand the…
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Wendell for Wednesday
A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat…
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revised hardiness zone maps
For the first time in over twenty years, the USDA has revised the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map that reflects that average annual lowest temperature across the country, enabling gardeners…
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making compost work for you
We love compost, and it’s become second-nature at our house (so much so that Jasper reminds us to pray for the “wormies” every night). I came across this great graphic…
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rotisserie chicken recipe: chicken caesar pitas
I have written here before about how big of fans we are about rotisserie chickens at our house, especially when I haven’t planned much ahead. We do lots of different…
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Wendell for Wednesday
LOOK IT OVER I leave behind even my walking stick. My knife is in my pocket, but that I have forgot. I bring no car, no cell phone, no computer,…
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Mark your calendars
This year’s Indiana Environmental Health Summit’s theme is “Local and Urban Foods: Breaking Barriers and Protecting Health.” Topics include the following: The national movement toward local and urban foods Health…
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sugar!
I have been reading quite a bit lately on the detrimental and addictive characteristics of sugar. Obviously, sugar in excess is dangerous and unhealthy, but some of the recent studies…
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Wendell for Wednesday
We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the…