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Americans throw away about 10% of the food they buy at the supermarket. This results is dumping the equivalent of more than 21 million shopping bags full of food into landfills every year. (EarthWorks Group. 1990. The Recycler’s Handbook. Berkeley, CA: The EarthWorks Press.)
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Picking out Seeds for Spring

It’s cold and dreary in Massachusetts and the high gloss seed catalogs are rolling in. It is that time of year. The time of year when I hunker down under blankets by the wood stove and sketch and plan my garden.

Home Town Seeds, a premium online seed retailer for the home gardener, recently sent me [...]

Tomato Hornworm Season

It’s that time of year. The tomato plants are flowering. There may even be ripening tomatoes on your plants. Then one day you go out to pick a fresh, ripe, red, and what you hope to be juicy tomato only to find it’s flesh scarred with bites. There are small droppings on the leaves that [...]

What to do with Woodchucks?

If you garden in the country you more than likely have had your fair share of pests. Not that far out of the city gardeners are plagued by various insects, rabbits, deer, moles, voles, chipmunks, and woodchucks. Last year we had a mystery pest that chomped our Brassicas, nibbled our pea shoots, and all in [...]

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