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.
Isabel Cowles: An Obama Victory Garden (HuffingtonPost)
After he saves the economy, begins timely withdrawals from Iraq and negotiates with unruly world leaders, Mr. Obama ought to get his hands dirty by planting a White House vegetable garden.
Culinary Vegetable Institute will have a Thanksgiving dinner for military personnel and families (Port Clinton News Herald)
The Jones family and the Culinary Vegetable Institute staff and volunteers invite active military personnel and their families to the third annual free Thanksgiving Dinner, noon, Nov. 27 at 12304 Ohio 13, Milan.
Consider these new easy-care plants for next year's garden (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Now, after we have put most of our gardens to bed, is a good time to start thinking about next year's flowers and gardens. We want to plant flowers and plants that require less maintenance such as natives. Other plants, although not natives, can also be good bets, as easy care plants.
If the economic news seems bad, don't look at the scary graphs. Go take a walk in your garden. Notice the fact that from tiny seeds, large things have grown that are now delicious to eat. Keep an eye out for unexpected returns on your vegetable investments.