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  • When Birds Recycle February 3, 2012
    I was out and about on Sunday, cleaning up after the dogs and looking for wildlife of interest. January is not always the best time of year to find things, but Florida has experienced a relatively warm winter and spring is in the air so we have our fair share of resident wildlife meandering around.... [Continue Reading] […]
    Loret T. Setters
  • Orange Moon and The Grandmother Tree February 1, 2012
    Exploring the wonders of nature with the children who come to visit my wildlife garden is one of the greatest joys of my life. We turn over rocks to look for the Worm Snake who lives there. We watch the bugs with our hand lenses. We are amazed when the butterfly emerges from its chrysalis.... [Continue Reading] […]
    Carole Sevilla Brown
  • Green Healthy Lawns and Yards without Chemicals January 31, 2012
    In cased you missed it, last week our very own Carole Brown took the wildlife gardening world by storm with her exposure of the National Wildlife Federation/ScottsMiracle-Gro partnership, which quickly escalated into a widespread social media storm of protest by organic gardeners, farmers and environmental writers. On Sunday, amazingly, the NWF’s reversed th […]
    Ellen Sousa
  • Counting Birds in the Garden January 30, 2012
    I could not have guessed how timely this post would turn out to be.  I thought, I’ll get a head start promoting the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC).  After all we want to see more birds in the garden.  But who would have guessed that while I was gazing out my window this past gray... [Continue Reading] […]
    Donna Donabella
  • Feels Like the First Time January 29, 2012
    [Guest post by Jan Bills] “For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart” ~Audrey Hepburn When I read the email from Carole asking if I would like to write a guest post for her highly regarded, well-respected website, I nearly dropped my teeth! Me, I thought to myself. I am... [Continue Reading] […]
    Guest Author

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Gardening by the Moon

“Don’t tell me the sky is the limit, there are footprints on the moon!”

Sowing seeds according to the phases of the moon is often thought of as a bit of garden folklore that’s practiced by a few and discarded as irrelevant by many. Scientists have studied the effects of the moon’s force on [...]

Who Knew?

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside,

somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God.

Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be

and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst [...]

Winter Interest Wednesday

The time is winter as it nears its end and objects remain

snow dappled;

each flake takes hand

with its brother

until spring returns and sweeps them away.

~G.L.

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Sow What Now?

To everything there is a season, a time to sow and a time to reap…

Ecclesiastes 3:2

You have all of  your seeds and perhaps a touch of spring fever. Now, after poring over seed catalogs, reading up on best garden practices and gathering pots…you’re ready to grow! Not [...]

Don't Bug Me!

One of the challenges to growing an organic garden is finding natural solutions to garden problems like damaging insects. The birds are adept at keeping populations of many insects to a minimum, but in the case of pests like ants, aphids and spider mites the birds are not of much help. What else can be [...]

Sow Easy

Are you looking for an easy garden project to occupy your time while early sown seeds germinate and snows melt away? Seed tapes are the answer. They’re super-simple to make, use everyday items in your home and make sowing small seeds like lettuces and flowers a snap! Seed tapes are simply paper strips with seeds [...]

A Tea Party for Your Plants

When it comes to our organic gardens, I’m very careful about what I use on the plants and in the soil. A lot of products use the word “natural” but when I look closely at the company and product they don’t live up to the label. With the current trend in home gardening [...]

Please Be Seated

Winter returned last night and sighed its snowy flakes over the yard. I’m tempted to grumble but can’t seem to muster the strength. It’s too beautiful. The birds this morning are unfazed, even excited as they flit from branch to feeder and then off  again. Watching them this morning I made [...]

Winter Interest Wednesday

In the depth of winter,  I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

~Albert Camus

A farewell to seasons past…

and hope for the coming spring.

Melancholy of  songbirds gone…

and joy for those who [...]

Book Thoughts: Grocery Gardening

~If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.

If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.~

One of the things I love most about gardening is the way it draws people together. United by a common passion for starting, growing and using vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers we gardeners [...]