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A seasonal winter salad: green cabbage coleslawvideos
If you're trying to eat from a veggie garden or from an allotment (box scheme, etc), you'll discover that in the wintertime, your options for salads differ from supermarket fare. And that might be a good thing. There are some really healthy foods that many of us have ...
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1 month, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A winter salad recipe: coleslawdiy
If you aren't eating cabbage, you should. That's according to a New York Times list (via Men's Health) of the 11 best foods you aren't eating. Why? Studies show it may help prevent some types of cancer and it's packed with vitamins (B1, B2, B3 ...
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1 month, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
America's post fast food era & Europe's oldskool land loversblogs
"Don't you think America is preparing for a post-fast-food period whereas Europe is slowly entering the fast food period?", wrote my Belgian friend Veerle in an email last week. It's a big question so I'll back up and explain how we got to this point from a ...
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3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff 3 comments
The comeback of cabbage: a seasonal wonder veggieblogs
Cabbage entered my home for the first time this week. While I'd eaten cabbage in the occasional picnic coleslaw, I'd never in my life bought it, cooked with it, or even seen it in a refrigerator (neither my parents nor my own). And that, according to the New ...
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1 month, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A mail-order greenhousevideos
So you've joined the backyard garden revolution and are now growing
as much of your own food as possible. If you're ready to stretch your
growing season into the wintertime (or, at least, later into the fall),
consider a greenhouse.Not only does a greenhouse let you grow ...
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8 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Vegetable garden in a tiny space, 100% re-used materialsdiy
My garden has finally been started. It has been a long time now since I first decided to, but at least I didn't wait until mid-summer when it would be too late to plant. I built the planter entirely out of scrap wood I had saved from past hauling ...
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10 months ago by: BioDieselHauling user 1 comments
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American garden revolution: Obama's plot & recession gardensnews
When Michelle Obama donned her Jimmy Choo boots to break ground for organic veggies on the White House South Lawn, she knew it was about more than just providing food for her family."We want to use it as a point of education"- she explained to Oprah- "to talk about ...
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10 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 3 comments