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Sustainability

How to Store Vegetables for Winter

How to Store Vegetables for Winter

Jul 19th 2023

As soon as harvest season comes to an end, storing vegetables during winter becomes a top priority. When stored properly, vegetables retain both flavour and nutrients, allowing fresh veggies to be easily within reach. Learning the proper storage techniques is most important for people that produce t …
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Organic Gardening Guide

Organic Gardening Guide

Jun 1st 2023

Organic gardening is one of the best steps you can take to ensure you have a delicious and healthy food supply for you and your family. When growing food at home, you get all of the benefits of moving your body, being outside, connecting with nature and leaving synthetic fertilizers and pesticides b …
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DIY Greywater System

DIY Greywater System

May 25th 2023

An excellent way to reduce your water usage and your carbon footprint is to use a greywater recycling system. Once it's up and running, a greywater system recycles the water you use in the house and repurposes it for other uses, so it isn't wasted. These other purposes include things like flushing y …
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Growing Edible Flowers in Your Garden

Growing Edible Flowers in Your Garden

May 16th 2023

Many herbs and vegetables, including mint, chives, runner beans, and courgettes, have edible flowers. There are numerous ways to use edible flowers, including fresh, dried, as a condiment, cooked, raw, and even pickled. They are also used in salads, cakes, cookies, and to decorate drinks. Some flowe …
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15 Things You Should Never Compost

15 Things You Should Never Compost

Apr 12th 2023

Composting is the best method we know for truly turning trash into cash. Recycling the right yard debris and table scraps in a composter can yield black gold in the form of rich, dark soil that can help any garden or plant grow better. In addition, recycling your kitchen scraps, leaves, grass clippi …
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How to Start a Community Garden

How to Start a Community Garden

Mar 7th 2023

What is a community garden? It is a way for like-minded folks interested in gardening to grow vegetables, flowers, or other plants in a common space. A community garden can save gardeners space in their own yards, offer a place to garden for apartment dwellers and provide a great way to meet neighbo …
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Top Greenhouse Care and Maintenance Tips

Top Greenhouse Care and Maintenance Tips

Nov 15th 2022

For home gardeners as well as commercial farmers, greenhouses offer many benefits. By controlling the climate, they can extend the growing season, allowing earlier planting, later harvesting and more crops. Greenhouses can help protect plants from insects, diseases and pests like deer, rabbits and …
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