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From Our Garden: Okra

Posted on August 17, 2017 by admin

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Okra, known as Lady Fingers in some parts of the world, forms an elongated fruit from each flower. The flowers only last for a day or two and the fruits are ready to pick just a few days after that. Okra is most commonly…

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New Self-Watering Container Garden Built in India

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Anne Zachry

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About a year ago, I encountered my friend, Avanish, on Facebook through mutual online friends in the organic gardening realm of the web. We both had a common interest in sustainable living and our online conversations started around Learn & Grow. At about that…

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Relocating a Self-Watering Bucket Container Garden

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Anne Zachry

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Our Learn & Grow Educational Series test garden was started in June 2013 as an experiment motivated by my personal curiosity about food, people’s relationships with it, their understandings about where food comes from, food education in our schools, the nutritional values of food…

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