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Join Garden Bookstore on Facebook Wed 7-21 5PM CST as they interview feral foodie Esmaa Self.
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There's 3 ingredients & 4 EZ steps to this all-natural tansy skin toner like the one your great-grandmother likely used.
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I’d like to suggest that you make time to cultivate tea. I’ve been on a mission to identify and learn to use the wild foods growing on our property. As companion to that project, I’m determined to make better use of the edible landscaping left us by the previous owners. To wit: St. John’s wort,...
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Want a free lunch? Forage wild foods and eat for nada.
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A truly 'green' house sits on organic soil.
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Growing an attractive houseplant from kitchen waste is not only inexpensive fun, if you make it an avocado, you can use the leaves as a spice.
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Yucca: the weed used to weave cloth, as dinner and as a detergent.
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Five easy-to-adopt suggestions for radically improving one's life through better food.
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Since the eighties, the Dervaes family has worked to transform their city lot —located between two major freeways— into an example of sustainable, self-sufficient living. They garden all year, having built over 50 raised beds to cover half their property. The family keeps chickens, ducks, and goats, make biofuel and electricity, and sell their...
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That title might seem an overstatement, so please  allow me to back up: in my previous post I mentioned that we saved a bunch of money, spent a ton of calories, got to feed alpacas, came to know Jack, and spread manure all over our terraced gardens. But I left something out. While...
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