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April 11, 2013

COOKED – an Evening with Michael Pollan

Dinner and speaking by (Multi.) New York Times best selling author, Michael Pollan. MORE INFO Thursday, May 2, 2013 – 7:00 pm – Beth El Synagogue 5224 West 26th Street – Saint Louis Park, MN 55416 http://www.besyn.org/pollan A portion of the proceeds of this event will go to benefit Appetite for Change, a North Minneapolis […]

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April 10, 2013

Dine For Dodge Day

It’s give back Wednesday, and Mendoberri in Mendota Heights, MN is hosting an event to raise money for Dodge Nature Center. Give-Back TODAY at Mendoberri 730 Main Street, The Village off Hwy 110, Mendota Heights 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. “10% of your total bill will be allocated towards environmental education and restoration at Dodge.” […]

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January 12, 2012

The Winter Harvest Handbook, Eliot Coleman – Book review

The Winter Harvest Handbook, Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses, by Eliot Coleman is a very detailed and exhaustive look at winter greenhouse gardening in zone 5. I am loving the look of the greenhouses on page 64, with snow piled up around the bases of a few large greenhouses! This book […]

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January 4, 2012

Winter Greenhouses!

I’ve been out of touch recently, but I’m back in 2012 with new inspiration! I have found a few great resources about winter gardening in Minnesota! Can you believe other people are as crazy as I am? 🙂 After my little plastic greenhouse got ripped apart by all the wind we’ve been having this Fall/Winter […]

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February 28, 2010

The Victory Garden

I was just reading my Farmer’s Almanac for this year and found out the meaning behind the term “Victory Garden.” In 1588 Queen Elizabeth sent riders out into the country side to tell the folks out there to prepare for war. One of the main things that was told to everyone through out the land […]

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February 22, 2010

Water

My tap water is so hard and full of chlorine that I have to find a different source for watering my plants. The very first thing I did when I noticed that the chlorine was burning my plants was to go to the store and buy 3 jugs of water immediately! I was in a […]

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