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Have a Bee-Friendly Yard
National Honey Bee Day is this Saturday! One way to “bee” friendly is to create a pollinator-friendly garden by avoiding pesticides and planting flowers that bloom at different times. All these flowers are indigenous to the Eastern United States. They … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Gardening, Lawns, Local, Native plants
Tagged garden, indigenous species, local flowers, national honey bee day
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The Choice for Me: Chem Free!
Despite a recent and evolving Lyme diagnosis, I maintain my position of avoiding pesticide use. As the ER team knows, I love to tell the kale “tree” story in which my kale crop flourished even in the depths of winter and … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Gardening, Lawns, Native plants, Vegetables
Tagged lawn chemicals, pesticides, save the dandelions
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How to Get a Wheelbarrow Out of Your Living Room
MOM’s employees tend to be do-it-yourselfers. In my case, when my wife and I purchased our first home, we took on a fixer-upper. Alas, mumble-mumble years later we’re still fixing it up. Late last summer my darling wife lovingly mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Reuse
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Lawn Lunch
You may have a salad growing in your yard. There are lots of reasons not to treat your lawn with chemicals and pesticides, and one of them is that your yard may be edible! You may find your relationship … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Gardening, Lawns, Native plants, Vegetables
Tagged backyard, foraging, greens, lawn, weeds, yards
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Changing Up The Lawn
Even though the week started out snow-covered, I am still thinking about fixing my lawn this coming spring. Along with my natural lawn maintenance plan, I am searching for ways to create low maintenance lawn alternatives. I want to add … Continue reading
Eat Your Weed
MOMs is in full-obsession mode this week over dandelions – and we have every reason to be. We, Americans in particular, are choking our ground water with fertilizers and drying out our clean water resources to try to give grass … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Lawns, Native plants, Vegetables
Tagged bee balm, chicory, Christopher Hobbs, clover, common plantain, cow slip, dandelions, edible weeds, elder, fertilizer, ground ivy, lambs quarter, lawn care, lawn chemicals, major plantain, medicine cabinet, nutrition, plantago major, psyllium fiber, redbud, safe disposal, soil amendment, soil improvement, weed weasel
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The Road to a Chemical Free Lawn – Step One
As I sat inside last week with over a foot of snow outside my window, I could only think of one thing: spring. (An upshot of the snow was making snow creatures in it.) With spring comes my plan for … Continue reading
Posted in Composting, Gardening, Lawns, Native plants
Tagged Beyond Pesticides, chemical-free, clover, compost, compost tea, grass, grub, lawn, native plants, seed, spring, yard
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Change Your Scenery
If you had told me, when I started in the natural health field at 19 years old, that one day I would be traveling to faraway lands for my job, I would’ve laughed. Then I would’ve finished pricing my products … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Fruits, Gardening, Natural Health
Tagged annatto, biodynamic farming, coffee farms, Costa Rica, eco-resort, ginger, glass frog, guanabana, hanging bridges, howler monkeys, La Fortuna, livestock, medicinal plants, New Chapter, rambutan, Sacred Seeds, sloth, sustainable hospitality, turmeric, weather channel
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