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Gardening For Beginners: Selecting A Location
When I started my journey of gardening I had never been around a garden. I wondered why have a garden? I did not grow up around any type of gardening but I knew it was something I was interested in starting. I am a self made gardener and taught myself by trial and error. I did and continue to do lots of reading, researching, and talking to other gardeners. I was part of a Food Bank garden farm and would weekly pick up my share until one day I thought “I can do this”. Raising my children was at the top of my list however, I knew when they all…
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Creating Family Traditions
September signals the beginning of the fall/autumn season in our home and that means our family traditions begin. Raising children to believe in family traditions was top on my list of things I wanted to accomplish. There seems to be so much competition for time between school, after school activities, the electronics world, and school friends. Spending time with each other must be developed early so when everyone ages, the value of those relationships grows and is maintained. As children grow and start their own families, the traditions can be started in their own homes. While it is tempting to go crazy with starting lots of traditions, quality versus quantity is…
Home Grown is Best
