Ready-to-Grow
Raised Bed Gardens

by The Market Company

Urban gardening is green and hip, and we live in one of the few places in the U.S. where you can grow edible plants all year round. Now you can easily integrate urban gardening into your lifestyle with a Ready-to-Grow Raised Bed Garden Package delivered to your backyard, balcony or workplace!

Ready-to-Grow Raised Bed Garden packages provide the gardener with a cedar raised bed garden frame, a rich ready-to-grow soil blend, vegetabl… Continue

Miami get ready to be flooded with crazy folks waving superbowl tickets. A friend works in an international travel agency and she said tickets and travel health insurance to Miami have increased. Pop up canopies with Colts… Continue

Here is a link to an article addressing a possible solution to the collapse of domesticated honey bees. Native Plants in the landscape certainly help provided habitat for native bees & wasps, which are resistant to diseases affecting our domesticated bees, but who also help pollinate our crops and orchards. It just goes to show that an ecological approach is best when growing food as a balance is more likely achieved.

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someone asked me about the mycelium reference I made on Saturday. The video can be viewed online at:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html
(cut and paste into your address bar)

Or - you can read the transcript at:
http://blog.ted.com/2008/05/paul_stamets.php

while I'm not on board with all of Stamets' ideas about saving the world - he brings to light how important a role mushrooms (mycelium) play in our world. enjoy.
Joyce

I enjoyed hosting the potluck and sharing my garden with other gardeners. Thanks to Yuhfen and David for the dumpling class - it made the day extra special. Thanks too, to Frank for bringing gifts from his garden for others to take home. And, well, thanks to everyone who came and brought such delicious food and such good energy. Dig on. xox Joyce