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]

Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

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]

Creating a Cottage Garden Creating a Cottage Garden

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]

Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

Happy Birthday!

February 26, 2012
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Seasonal Wisdom is celebrating a birthday. This blog is now officially three years old! And there is a lot of excitement coming … Photo copyright Freakgirl on Flickr. 

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Growing Food From Seeds

February 20, 2012
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Growing food from seeds is easier than you may think. This Seasonal Wisdom mini-guide gives you quick tips and resources for seed starting this growing season, as well as some of my favorite foods to grow from seeds.

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Garden Trends from 2012 Northwest Flower & Garden Show

February 15, 2012
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See the latest garden trends with this armchair tour of the 2012 Northwest Flower & Garden Show, recently held in Seattle. The nation’s second largest show had lots of clever ideas to incorporate into your own garden, no matter how small.  Above is a gorgeous garden that featured four-season interest, even in late-winter.

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Valentine’s Day Guide

February 13, 2012
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Happy Valentine’s Day! From fun folklore to holiday food ideas, here are some great last-minute resources to make your Valentine’s Day special — all illustrated with vintage valentines from Riptheskull on Flickr.

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Cooking Classes in Bologna — Italy’s Food Capital

February 6, 2012
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Sit back and enjoy this tour of Bologna — Italy’s food capital — as we spend the day shopping the old food markets of this historic and hospitable city. Our guide is the delightful Carmelita Caruana of Cook Italy, who takes us to some of the city’s finest food sources, before teaching us how to cook […]

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Drink Your Herbs!

February 1, 2012
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From rosemary-infused lemonade and chamomile-apple punch to the Moroccan mint tea shown above, there are many delicious ways to make drinks from herbs.

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Six Healthy Garden and Food Resolutions

January 23, 2012
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Start the year right. These garden and food resolutions are easy to implement into your life, regardless of where you live. Yet these six simple ideas will help you eat better, feel healthier and connect more closely with your community. Take a peek. Image of Eugene (Oregon) Farmer’s Market is copyright Teresa O’Connor.

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Great Gardening Ideas at 2012 Northwest Flower & Garden Show

January 19, 2012
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The 2012 Northwest Flower & Garden Show is not only the nation’s second largest garden show it’s also the third largest show in the world. As Seattle plans its 23rd annual event, Feb. 8-12, Seasonal Wisdom is providing a “behind-the-scenes” look at this top-rated source of gardening ideas, exhibitors and presentations, including two upcoming talks […]

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Don’t Censor the Web! Stop PIPA and SOPA

January 18, 2012
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Seasonal Wisdom supports the concept of an Internet with free knowledge sharing and without government censorship. Please join millions of Internet users (including AOL, LinkedIn, Twitter and Yahoo) today, January 18, 2012,  in opposing two bills before the U.S. Congress. They are called Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act […]

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Eight Easy Steps to a Wonderful Winter Garden

January 8, 2012
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It may be the dead of winter, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a lovely winter garden too.  Now is the perfect time to consider how you can make your winter garden more attractive. Here are eight easy tips to consider. Photo copyright pcgn7 on flickr.

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