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October 18, 2007 04:51 PM EDT -- Frequently you will get a response from members when you suggest that the government should have a program to do something, "Its wrong to think that the Government can implement something which is . . . more
July 04, 2007 09:00 PM EDT -- Initially I called it my bog garden, but I came to realize that the bog was in the pond and the pond was beside or a feature of the garden, but not the garden.  So with my sixth son, I began to imagine . . . more
August 11, 2007 02:32 PM EDT -- I believe that all responsible gardeners understand that it is taboo to transplant natural plants, especially wildflowers which are moderately rare from the wild.  Let me suggest another approach.  . . . more
In The Garden
by George McNaughton
views: 16 | rating: 10 | comments: 8
September 02, 2007 11:46 PM EDT -- If you wish to have a connection with your land you have to spend time on it, and most people only have enough time to form a connection with a relatively small parcel of land ten, maybe twenty acres maximum.  . . . more
August 31, 2007 07:58 PM EDT -- I just saw a show featuring Big ‘n Rich, the country music duo.  Their hit song “Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy” got me thinking – maybe John Edwards is right with his message . . . more
June 21, 2007 10:49 PM EDT -- I started work on creating a garden out by our fire pond this spring.  Initially, it was to have been a bog garden because the pond has become almost silted shut at the end towards the garden.  . . . more
October 30, 2007 05:03 PM EDT -- Environment: We all are stuck on this planet for the forseeable future, so the environment has to be protected.  America has to be a leader not an obstructionist in protecting the environment, . . . more
June 25, 2007 12:58 PM EDT -- Mormons are probably not give enough credit for their environmental conscience, but there are some issue we should revisit.  If one reads the discourses of Brigham Young regarding the size of farms . . . more
August 18, 2007 11:18 PM EDT -- I have been fascinated with the construction of hedges ever since I read a National Geographic article about a dying European art -- the laying of hedges.  These are not the boring boxwood and monoculture . . . more
August 20, 2007 09:07 PM EDT -- There really was not much going on tonight, so a glass of herbal tea and I headed for the garden.       This particular garden is carved out of a wild rose, elderberry, and wild . . . more
August 26, 2007 10:03 PM EDT -- I am not usually a magazine junkie, but the McKibben article in this month's Yankee Magazine deserves the attention of not only those into the slow food movement, and the buy local movement, but those . . . more
May 06, 2008 12:25 PM EDT -- Obama is right on the gas tax holiday.  The holiday is not meant to solve anything and is merely a quick political ploy on the part of elected officials to take the heat off themselves for a mismanaged . . . more
July 20, 2007 02:51 PM EDT -- As we become more and more attuned to environmental concerns and various land ethics, there is this lingering question -- is mankind a part of nature?  At first the question seems simple enough, yes . . . more
August 15, 2007 04:26 PM EDT -- There is a parable told and explained in Sunday school classes about a monkey trap.  This particular trap involves a container with a very carefully calibrated neck and containing a bait desirable . . . more
August 18, 2007 11:27 PM EDT -- I sat there watching a Hoosier sunset at my wife's cottage.  Soaked in sweat sitting in one of those ubiquitous green plastic lawn chairs beside an old push lawnmower that looked as tired as I. . . . more
September 05, 2007 08:51 PM EDT -- We live in a culture that demands the awesome, the spectacular, the breathtaking and the sublime, although our society tends to deliver something far less.  But if you require the awesome, the spectacular, . . . more
January 17, 2008 11:13 PM EST -- The State of Texas was recently honored as having the largest Carbon footprint in America.  It surpassed the amount of greenhouse emissions of every other State in the Union and is credited with . . . more
Nature's Coded Wisdom
by Krista Tippett
views: 141 | rating: 10 | comments: 3
April 28, 2008 11:42 AM EDT -- Planting the Future Many of my interviews are conducted over long distances, by way of a clear channel communications miracle called an ISDN line. People are often surprised to hear this, because . . . more
October 23, 2007 07:49 PM EDT -- Well, I have been having this battle with the sugar maple that is the Matriarch of my yard here in Vermont.  Its been going on for about three weeks now as I related in another article at http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977154875 . . . more
December 28, 2007 11:56 PM EST -- My kids never cease to astound me.  I look at their achievements and think, what caused this.  I was a fairly hands off parent, and most of them can barely remember their mother. So it is . . . more
 
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