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Talk about gifts that keep on giving! Gardens just don't know when to stop. First, you get exercise. Then you get beautiful greenery, followed by healthy harvests, and, finally, seeds to ...

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What greater metaphor is there for change than planting a seed? You water it, and before long, it grows. Over time, it bears fruit. Finally, the wind or birds carry its seeds near and far...

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Pick up any national magazine about gardening and you'll start seeing articles right around now about putting your garden "to bed" as "the season" ends. This makes me laugh every time I s...

Credit Daron "Farmer D" Joffe

As part of my job as an urban farmer and educator, I get to go into many backyards and see what's growing, and sometimes what I see growing is frustration.  This may be because of pests o...

Credit Daron "Farmer D" Joffe

There comes a day when you stand there in your kitchen, holding a banana peel, and you suddenly realize that the time has finally come to start your home composting system. Maybe it was b...

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You’ve probably made the usual New Year’s resolutions for 2012 – lose weight, exercise more, eat healthier, quit smoking, etc. Looking beyond our personal lives, there are things we can...

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