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]

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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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Grow Food in Small Spaces

June 26, 2011
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Want to grow summer vegetables and herbs, but don’t have a lot of space? No problem. With the right plants and container, you’ll be surprised how much you can grow in just a few feet. Here are tips to help you grow food in small spaces.

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Vote for Your Favorite Farmer’s Market

June 20, 2011
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During the summer, one of my favorite traditions is to shop at my local farmers market. From gorgeous fresh foods and handcrafted artisan products to charming live music, there’s always plenty happening. Plus, I like the feeling of supporting my local economy by keeping family farmers profitable and sustainable in my community. Do you have […]

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Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

June 16, 2011
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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 of contact with nature can negatively affect these children’s health, well being and academic performance, […]

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Book Review: Sugar Snaps and Strawberries

June 10, 2011
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Besides having one of the cutest garden book names in years, Sugar Snaps and Strawberries by Andrea Bellamy offers plenty of simple solutions for creating your own small-space edible garden. I spoke recently with this critically acclaimed author to find out more… Photo copyright Jackie Connelly.

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Great Garden Advice from Thomas Jefferson

June 5, 2011
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Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was the author of the Declaration of Independence and founded the University of Virginia. But he also was a highly knowledgeable gardener and farmer. At Monticello, he grew 330 varieties of vegetables, 170 fruit varieties and amazing flower gardens, such as these larkspurs (Consolida orientalis) growing in the […]

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Vintage School Book Teaches Kids About Soil

June 2, 2011
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Vintage magazines, cookbooks and educational materials offer wonderful ways to better understand our culture in earlier times. Often featuring delightful illustrations or old photographs, these vintage periodicals can be found at garage sales, flea markets, library bookstores, and antique markets for a couple dollars. Recently, I found a school booklet from 1953, published by the National Wildlife Federation. Nearly […]

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Grow: Greens, Radishes, Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplants

May 26, 2011
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It’s that time of year again … when the cool-season radishes, spicy greens and lettuces are growing wildly.  Here’s a recent harvest of different greens from my garden, as well as three types of radishes. There are ‘Long Scarlets’ that look like red carrots; round ‘Purple Plum’ radishes; and pale yellow ‘Helios’ radishes from a village near where my […]

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Guest Post by Michael Nolan: Casinos and Supermarkets

May 24, 2011
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A guest post by author Michael Nolan, who takes a creative approach to examining seasonal, local food. Photo by Naotakem on Flickr. Though I’m not a traditionally religious man, I had to appreciate the wisdom of the biblical phrase from Ecclesiastes that says, “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under Heaven.”  […]

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At Home With P. Allen Smith

May 17, 2011
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My mother used to say that when she died, she imagined heaven would look like Charlottesville, Virginia. She really meant Monticello, the famous country estate that belonged to Thomas Jefferson, with its Neoclassic architecture, orderly kitchen gardens and Southern charm. I thought about her often, while touring P. Allen Smith’s 650-acre Moss Mountain Farm, outside of Little Rock, […]

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Garden Tours: Southern Plantations to French Estates

May 3, 2011
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From Southern plantations to European-inspired estates, these three gardens, designed by P. Allen Smith, provided attendees of the first annual Garden2Blog event with plenty of ideas to apply to our own outdoor spaces.  Even if our gardens aren’t nearly as big as the one photographed at the Murphy residence in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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