Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Ozark Summer
At top : Dem Wascally Wabbits got most of the cosmos, this is one they happily missed. I do like cosmos.
Category Archives: Home Gardening
Backyard Coops: So, you think you want chickens . . .
A study came out recently by the USDA stating that more than one per cent of all American households have started raising chickens. Now one per cent may not seem like a lot compared to the other 99 per cent that are not raising chickens, but that is still a lot of homes.
Derek Gentile: Fond memories of an undocumented immigrant
Several years ago , when I moved to Great Barrington, I lived in a guy's basement for a while. It was a space that had been converted into an apartment, but there was a boiler down there and when somebody took a shower upstairs, it sounded like the water was going to come cascading down on my bed.
Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017: Sen. Collins shows courage, Fulford for Congress, don’t use pesticides
Maine has a proud tradition of independence and leadership. Decades ago, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith stood up to partisan bullying in the Senate in a famous floor speech , and recently Sen. Susan Collins has shown the same courage.
Stanley Bachman grew the family’s floral business
Every spring morning, Stanley Bachman got out of bed at 4 a.m. to pick carnations in the greenhouse for the family floral business. "It was so dark, he could only see the white flowers to pick," said his son Paul Bachman.
COLUMN: President should launch the GlobalSuperTanker
Some federal government bureaucrat has decided it is more important to glue thousands of paper cups to thousands of posts, arrange them in a grid, have the aircraft drop water on the grid and then weigh each cup to see how much water is in each of them than it is to put out fires. This ridiculous exercise in bureaucracy is a required part of federal approval for an aircraft to dump water onto a raging forest fire.
Superstar Training
Lowe's should have received their shipment of Texas Superstars by now. Drive by and see if they have a signature superstar table outside to publicize their offerings.
Lights On! It’s Time to Shine for Super-sized Vivid Sydney
"It's all systems go as the city becomes a massive, creative canvas from tonight, with art and technology coming together to present awe-inspiring creations conjured by some of the world's leading creative minds and technology innovators." "Visitors to Vivid Sydney come for the lights and stay for the sights of this great State.
Trump tells the truth – the job is hard
President Donald Trump talks with House Speaker Paul Ryan in the Rose Garden of the White House Thursday after the House pushed through a health care bill. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana is at left, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, is at right.
Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Athenian Spring
The Cowboy is a screen door grate we bought in New Orleans years ago, when the deck came down we had to find another place for it so it's on a rose trellis for now. The "Raven" is a nice piece a friend made after the little fella died.
Backyard gardening makes comeback –
The Union Times Brussel Sprouts and Collard Greens like these growing in the Piedmont Physic Garden are among the many types of fruit and vegetables that can be grown in a backyard garden. Backyard gardening is making a comeback in South Carolina in response to the expansion of food deserts in communities across the state.
Fundraiser starts for urban farm resource center in Detroit
State economic development officials and a nonprofit urban farming group have launched a crowdfunded campaign to turn a vacant Detroit building into a community resource center. The campaign to raise $50,000 was launched Tuesday by the Michigan Economic Development Corp. and Michigan Urban Farming Initiative.
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The This Old House Hour Burying electrical cables, building porch columns, laying a patio, installing kitchen cabinets and trimming the front gable. On ASK THIS OLD HOUSE, changing a dilapidated entrance, how to make wire connections and a lesson on creating mead.
Marijuana legislation inches ahead despite Christie warning
Republican Gov. Chris Christie's warning to the Democrat-led Legislature not to move forward with legalizing marijuana is going mostly unheeded. Christie, a longtime opponent of legalizing the recreational use of the drug, cautioned lawmakers in an impassioned State of the State address aimed at battling the opioid epidemic.
An Organic Arsenal
Organic gardening means gardening without using synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers.
A first lady who followed her own path more than precedent
When Michelle Obama considered the daunting prospect of becoming first lady, she avoided turning to books by her predecessors for guidance. "I didn't want to be influenced by how they defined the role," Mrs. Obama once said.
Heart and Hand House programs offer help
Whether it's aiding in an emergency situation or helping local farmers sell their produce, Heart and Hand House Inc. of Barbour County always finds new ways to lend a hand.
Flooded Glen Oaks High returning to campus but to temporary classrooms
Students from Glen Oaks High School in Baton Rouge are set to return their school grounds for classes sometime in the spring, but they will be moving back into a sea of temporary classrooms because a return to the permanent buildings will have to wait another two more years at least. East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent Warren Drake said he's received preliminary approval from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to purchase and install at least $7.5 million worth of temporary buildings at the high school, including a cafeteria, career-and-technical building and 30 classrooms.
Are We Not Men?
The dog was the color of a maraschino cherry, and what it had in its jaws I couldn't quite make out at first, not until it parked itself under the hydrangeas and began throttling the thing. This little episode would have played itself out without my even noticing, except that I'd gone to the stove to put the kettle on for a cup of tea and happened to glance out the window at the front lawn.
The Latest: Obama plays down report on Clinton email
President Barack Obama is playing down reports that a senior State Department official had asked the FBI last year to reduce the classification of an email from Hillary Clinton's private server. Obama said in a Rose Garden news conference Tuesday that some of the "more sensational implications or appearances" related to the report "are not based on actual events."