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Green Thumbs for Hire

Pictured here are Erin and her kids, who hire out their green thumbs through Produce Partners of Kansas City! If you’re putting off growing a green garden, get digging because, in the future, once you’ve done some learning, those green thumb skills could be good not only for bringing food to your family’s table, but [...]

Garden Corner 04/09/09

Just when I think the weather here in my corner of Kansas is improving, we end up with a day where I’d rather not work outside. My garden has been neglected of late. Good news though, just as I started typing, the sun came out and I rushed out to photograph the latest happenings.

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Garden Corner 03/26/09

The outside temperatures in my garden corner at this time of year are perfect for getting work done. I’ve almost convinced myself that I’m in control, but I already made at least one mistake. Gardening is definitely a learning process. Control is an illusion – my garden corner is subject to many forces beyond the [...]

Green Fingers at the White House

I was absolutely delighted to hear yesterday that the Obama family are digging up 1100 square feet of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden.

What a fantastic message this is sending to people around the country who might never otherwise consider getting involved in gardening and growing their own vegetables. What’s going to happen [...]

Garden Corner 03/19/09

Spring Radish Seedlings

What’s happening in your garden corner? It’s been almost 2 weeks since I put in my first seeds. Right after planting the weather here turned cold, but we’ve now had a succession of warm days and I was hopeful I’d see something happening soon. I’ve been out every morning, watering can in [...]