Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

What are those special ingredients that elevate a garden into a stylish and unforgettable space? What’s the best way to unleash your garden personality, and how can you create an outdoor place that’s uniquely your own? Just in time for another… [Continue Reading]

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Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

“Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd.” But forget about buying me “some peanuts and Cracker Jack,” as the 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer recommends. I would much rather tour the new 5,000… [Continue Reading]

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

Creating a Cottage Garden

A proper cottage garden, explains Oxford Dictionary, is defined as "an informal garden stocked typically with colourful flowering plants." And that's the type of garden I've created at my home (Zone 6B/7), as you can see above. From self-seeding poppies… [Continue Reading]

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Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

One of my favorite childhood memories was running around the garden until dinner time, chasing after lightning bugs and catching tadpoles. Sadly, too many kids spend most of their summer time indoors, playing on video games or watching TV. This lack… [Continue Reading]

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Vintage Christmas Cards – Part 2

December 21, 2012
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Another holiday season is here.  And it appears we have survived the “End of the World,” as Dec. 21, 2012 is nearly over as I write this post.  That’s a relief. Even though 2012 has been a rough year for many, it’s nice to know we have turned the corner, and that 2013 is nearly […]

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Five Expert Gift Ideas to Get Kids Gardening

December 7, 2012
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This holiday season, why not give presents and experiences that will encourage kids to spend more time gardening next year? For help, Seasonal Wisdom turned to five leading parenting and gardening book authors and bloggers for gift-giving ideas for nature-deficient kids. What they recommend might surprise you … Their ideas aren’t expensive or fancy, but […]

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The Kids Gardening Giveaway

December 4, 2012
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Getting children into the garden is a big goal for many parents and educators. That’s why Seasonal Wisdom is delighted to host this Kids Gardening Giveaway with aHaModernLiving.  These three great prizes make wonderful holiday gifts – and each will inspire the young children in your life to turn off the television and video games, […]

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December Home and Garden Resources

December 1, 2012
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The month of December is a bit of a paradox. On the one hand, the month has the shortest, darkest days of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. On the other, this time is a wildly optimistic month when people surround themselves with bright lights, aromatic evergreens and festive activities. However you decide to celebrate […]

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The High Line Takes Root in New York City

November 19, 2012
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On an historic freight rail line elevated above the streets of Manhattan’s West Side is the High Line — a lush urban garden, filled with trees, flowering shrubs, native plants and grasses. A  natural oasis in a cement jungle, the High Line extends nearly 1  1/2 miles over the crowded city streets. This groundbreaking urban […]

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Win Holiday Wreath from P. Allen Smith’s New Collection

November 13, 2012
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Decorating the home with aromatic evergreens during the winter holidays dates back to ancient times. That’s why Seasonal Wisdom was excited to learn about the P. Allen Smith Holiday Collection. The well-known TV personality and book author has partnered again with Berry Family of Nurseries for this Holiday Collection, which features Noble Fir boughs twisted […]

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Recipe for Martha Washington’s Great Cake

November 12, 2012
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Today’s famous foodies and stylish hostesses could learn a lot from Martha Washington. In the early days of the United States, George Washington’s wife was renowned for her hospitality and cooking. As the first First Lady, she entertained thousands of guests at Mount Vernon and helped establish the young nation’s culinary tastes. Travel back to 18th-century Virginia as […]

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A Tour of Idaho Bird Observatory

November 7, 2012
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When it comes to observing raptors, such as this gorgeous Cooper’s Hawk, there are few places in the western United States better than the Idaho Bird Observatory (IBO), now known as the Intermountain Bird Observatory. This non-profit research unit of Boise State University is world-renowned for the diversity of raptors and songbirds that migrate through […]

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Farmstead Chef Encourages Local Foods

November 3, 2012
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No matter where you live — even in a cold, four-season climate — you can eat healthy, local foods that are home-cooked and don’t cost a lot of money. That’s the message of a new book called Farmstead Chef, coauthored by Lisa Kivirist and John D. Ivanko — who are the proprietors of the renowned, eco-friendly […]

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Welcome November

November 1, 2012
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Happy November! In this month, “the eating of Honey … Ginger … and Goats Milk are very wholesome and profitable to the body … and Cinnamon … drunk often this Moneth give health, and are commendable.” wrote Richard Saunders in Apollo Anglicanus, The English Apollo back in 1665. The early part of this month has […]

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