Simple Green Living » Gardening http://simplegreenliving.com This is your tagline. Edit it at [Settings > Tagline] Mon, 21 May 2012 03:06:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://simplegreenliving.com http://simplegreenliving.com/wp-content/plugins/maxblogpress-favicon/icons/favicon-17.icoSimple Green Living Gardening Tips from A How-to Websitehttp://simplegreenliving.com/gardening-tips-from-a-how-to-website/ http://simplegreenliving.com/gardening-tips-from-a-how-to-website/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 15:42:28 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/?p=3672 I keep an eye on what is going on at MakeItandMendIt.com, and today I picked up some gardening tips to share with you. (If you haven’t seen this useful site, you might want to read my review of MakeItandMendIt.) Anyway, [...]

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]]> http://simplegreenliving.com/storing-garden-produce-in-a-small-house/feed/ 0 Gathering: Memoir of a Seed Saver, by Diane Ott Whealyhttp://simplegreenliving.com/gathering-memoir-of-a-seed-saver-by-diane-ott-whealy/ http://simplegreenliving.com/gathering-memoir-of-a-seed-saver-by-diane-ott-whealy/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:20:50 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/?p=2344 I recently read a fascinating account of the growth of the seed savers movement in the United States. Diane Ott Whealy, who wrote Gathering: Memoir of a Seed Saver, is one of the founders of the Seed Savers Exchange, which [...]

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]]> http://simplegreenliving.com/alternative-beekeeping-using-the-top-bar-hive-and-the-bee-guardian-methods/feed/ 0 Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Longhttp://simplegreenliving.com/four-season-harvest-organic-vegetables-from-your-home-garden-all-year-long/ http://simplegreenliving.com/four-season-harvest-organic-vegetables-from-your-home-garden-all-year-long/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:10:11 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/?p=1165 Four Season Harvest, by Eliot Coleman, is encouraging to every gardener and would-be gardener living in a cold climate. He’s got a newer book out on the same topic, The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic [...]

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