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Loowit grew it: Teen garden grows produce & pride (The Daily News)

In just one growing season, teens from Loowit High School in Kelso have tilled, sown and tended three raised beds of vegetables, herbs and flowers; planted apple trees; stocked and maintained a greenhouse and shared a 200-pound harvest with the Emergency Support Shelter.

Inspired by recent successes, farming visionaries promise to expand local, sustainable options in 2009 (Colorado Springs Independent)

When Fort Collins-born Kipp Nash moved to Boulder in 2004 after several years of international travel, he had a single objective: "I was a farmer looking for land."

Young sprouts toil in the soil to unearth ideas (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)

CORPUS CHRISTI — The Texas Agrilife Extension Service's Learning to Grow program is growing as fast as the vegetables its gardeners are planting. The program, organizers say, educates students and promotes healthy food. And now more area schools are joining.

Master Gardener: From garden to salad bowl (Marin Independent Journal)

Some years ago, when I was dealing with some health issues, I received a gift from my daughter, the book "Square Foot Gardening" by Mel Bartholomew.

Community garden project a success (High Plains Journal)

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP)--Members of the local First Lutheran Church are putting a new "SPIN" on gardening. Church members started the Tahlequah Community Garden about a year ago, according to Coordinator Julie Gahn.

Mulch contributes to bumper crop of tomatoes (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

: I have two questions, but first I want to thank you for letting us know about the free mulch outside the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Orchard in North Las Vegas. For the first time in 10 years, I had a successful tomato harvest because of mulching.