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Oct04

Featured Garden: Maintenance Collaborative

A minimum security work garden in Boston, Massachusets

The Featured Garden series presents weekly editor's picks of gardens from YourGardenShow.com.

Located in Boston, Massachusets, the Maintenance Collaborative is part of a work program to provide minimum security inmates the opportunity to gain job skills through gardening and landscaping within the Emerald Necklace park system.

Sep29

13-Year-Old Girl Grows Food to Feed Hungry, Starts a Movement

This Saturay on ABC, 13 y.o. Katie proves making a difference starts with planting a seed

This Saturday on ABC, Everyday Health shares the inspirational story of Katie Stagliano, a 13 y.o. who's started a movement to get kids to grow food and help feed the less fortunate. This episode is part of Everyday Health's series featuring ordinary people accomplishing extraordinary things.
Sep22

The Grapevine: Big Red Beauty

Tall Tales & Garden Gossip

YourGardenShow - Kate Hoppe

In a scandal involving the client of fruit importers Jon Nix et al, the United States Supreme Court (the top court in the USA) met in 1893 to pass judgment on the unlawful impersonation perpetrated by none other than that big red beauty, the tomato.

Photo courtesy of The National Garden Bureau

Sep21

Our Year Without Groceries

A Family Reflects on the Rewards & Challenges of Growing All Their Own Food

Guest Blogger - Rachel B.

In early September of 2010 my husband and I had this crazy idea about giving up the grocery store. We felt that we just couldn't trust the food available anymore and we wanted to buy directly from farmers. Being complete gluttons for punishment we decided that for the last 3 months we wouldn't buy any food at all and rely entirely on what we raised, grew and already had on our shelves.
Ask Ian - Ian Cooke answers your gardening questions
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