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Community Gardening: Meeting Gardeners Where They Are

Community Gardening: Meeting Gardeners Where Th...

Ellen Wells

If there is one thing we know about gardening, it’s that the word “community” is always implied. The act of gardening doesn’t take place in a vacuum. A “community” is...

Community Gardening: Meeting Gardeners Where Th...

If there is one thing we know about gardening, it’s that the word “community” is always implied. The act of gardening doesn’t take place in a vacuum. A “community” is...

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Start Your Cacti and Succulent Collection

Start Your Cacti and Succulent Collection

Ellen Wells

Cacti and succulents to me are the terrestrial versions of the ocean’s bizarrest sea creatures. To look at their needle-packed or plump branches, their rainbow of colors, their “I can’t...

Start Your Cacti and Succulent Collection

Cacti and succulents to me are the terrestrial versions of the ocean’s bizarrest sea creatures. To look at their needle-packed or plump branches, their rainbow of colors, their “I can’t...

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Biochar 101: Nothing Basic About It

Biochar 101: Nothing Basic About It

Ellen Wells

We’re doing something a little different with this month’s blog post. We’ve interviewed Mark Highland, Founder of Organic Mechanics, about one of the oldest yet newest concepts in horticultural soil...

Biochar 101: Nothing Basic About It

We’re doing something a little different with this month’s blog post. We’ve interviewed Mark Highland, Founder of Organic Mechanics, about one of the oldest yet newest concepts in horticultural soil...

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Fall Is For Planting Native Perennials

Fall Is For Planting Native Perennials

Ellen Wells

August is that transition month that pairs summer’s heat with the promise of cozy sweaters and pumpkin spice lattes. It’s a forward-looking time, one that is best spent planning and...

Fall Is For Planting Native Perennials

August is that transition month that pairs summer’s heat with the promise of cozy sweaters and pumpkin spice lattes. It’s a forward-looking time, one that is best spent planning and...

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Waterwise Tips for Smart Irrigation Month

Waterwise Tips for Smart Irrigation Month

Ellen Wells

Thanks to wildfires, historic reservoir shortages and large-scale crop losses, we are all more aware of the impacts of ongoing drought conditions and water restrictions in the U.S. And with...

Waterwise Tips for Smart Irrigation Month

Thanks to wildfires, historic reservoir shortages and large-scale crop losses, we are all more aware of the impacts of ongoing drought conditions and water restrictions in the U.S. And with...

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Herbs and Edibles to Celebrate Pollinator Month

Herbs and Edibles to Celebrate Pollinator Month

Ellen Wells

As National Pollinator Month, June is set aside to not only encourage the planting of pollinator plants and gardens, but to also spread awareness of the hard work that both...

Herbs and Edibles to Celebrate Pollinator Month

As National Pollinator Month, June is set aside to not only encourage the planting of pollinator plants and gardens, but to also spread awareness of the hard work that both...

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