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Saturday | Celebration of community gardening (Miami Herald)

CELEBRATION OF VEGETABLE GROWING Miami Beach will celebrate community gardening with a lecture by historian Jeff Donnelly on the city's distinctive history of urban vegetable growing and War II Victory Gardens; a tour of the modern Victory Garden plots; and demonstration of raised bed vegetable gardening.

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.

The Weekend Gardener: Sometimes, it's better to take the path of least resistance (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

By CATHERINE MALLETTE What I really wanted was a garden path. A couple of years ago, I’d had a patch of land in our back yard tilled into a garden, and it had been a long, slow process to figure out what the layout of that patch should be. The fact is that it wasn’t so much of a process as a rambling. A process implies a deliberate plan, and for this stretch of land, I had none. What really ...

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."

Access to Recreation projects in the county moving along (The Advertiser-Tribune)

Three of Seneca County's five Access to Recreation park projects are under way, and two are moving along despite a few snags. Improvements are designed to provide easier access to recreational activities for elderly and handicapped people. The deadline to complete the five projects is March 31 of next year.

Ask the Plant & Pest Professor (The Capital)

Thinking ahead, I would like to get a jumpstart on a vegetable garden for next season. What is the best way to go about this? I am interested in making a raised bed.