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A Healing Garden
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If you are interested in health and healing consider dedicating a section of your garden to medicinal herbs and plants. Making remedies using common healing plants from your own garden is an empowering experience. Here is one example: “Basil is a very good herb for treating itching. It is recommended to apply basil tea on […]
It Takes a Lot of ‘Seedy’ Characters…
To turn a Saturday into a Seedy Saturday. So here’s a big thank you to all of you who helped make the day. So…. thanks to everybody who came out, traded seeds, bought garden supplies, and laughed at us when we realized that we’d somehow left one of last year’s talks in this year’s programme. […]
Adventures in Extreme Seed-Saving
You may think of seed-saving as a fairly gentle – even bucolic – pastime. But not the way Kelly Dodson and Sue Milliken of Far Reaches Farm in Port Townsend do it! Come to Seedy Saturday tomorrow to hear about their adventures botanizing in the mountains of SW China – an area rarely visited by […]
Be Prepared for the Unexpected
There used to be (and perhaps still is) a rather unusual sign along one of the back roads up-island. It looked like an official traffic sign, but read “Be Prepared for the Unexpected”. It was attached to a large fallen tree. And beneath the tree trunk was what remained of a car. While we hope […]
Tormented by Tomatoes?
I am. They laugh at me. Or languish wanly like some ailing Victorian lady reclining on her sofa. Or shiver and pout, because It’s Not Like Mexico Here, You Know. Tina Baynes, of Corner Farm, apparently has no such troubles. It’s her 21st year of growing organic food (including tomatoes) for farm markets, local restaurants, […]
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