by Callie Martin
Of the many delicious meals cooked from the garden, left behind are delicious food scraps, waiting to return to the soil as compost. Compost is nature’s way of recycling all things that were once living.
There are several options for composting food waste at home. One of the most popular is vermicomposting. The art
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by Jessica Gigot
I did not grow up on a farm, but from a young age I was fascinated by sheep. It might be because my last name is French for ‘leg of lamb’ or that I have had a life-long obsession with sweaters, mittens and all things wool, not to mention the
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by Samantha Schuller
Fresh apple cider is a delicious addition to fall menus, and pressing it at home makes for a great family tradition. Kids love pocketing windfall fruit and gathering around the press to watch sweet cider pour from the spout.
Any apple that’s tasty to eat will make cider that’s tasty to drink. About 10
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by Samantha Schuller
Raised garden beds offer many advantages. One of the most beneficial is that the soil warms early in spring and stays through fall, meaning warm garden beds can be seeded earlier with better germination rates.
A twist on a traditional raised bed, developed by Innovative Landscape Technologies in Everett, uses repurposed wine bottles to
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by Marnie Jones
When I was a new dairy goat owner contemplating cheese making for the first time, I went with what seemed like a safe choice: feta. The salty brine in which feta is stored and refrigerated provides a buffer against the ambient organisms that can complicate hard cheese making, and the process of feta-making
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by Mike Watson
Pallets. They’ve become a popular item for reuse at home and in the garden. You can use them for lots of ideas: storage, coffee table, shelves, and a pallet garden!
A pallet garden is great for someone who has small space or not a lot of time to create a large garden space, but
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by Samantha Schuller
If you’ve been grumping and muttering under your breath all summer at your unproductive melon vines, short tomato season, and stunted peppers, now is the time to start gloating about our Pacific weather. We here in the Northwest are blessed—that’s right, blessed—with usually mild winters, which means that we get a growable winter
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by Grow Northwest
A beautiful evergreen wreath is one of the most popular holiday decorations. Look around each season and you find them hanging from doors, fences, barns and even vehicles. Adorned with ribbons, bows, cones, holly or other decorations, an evergreen wreath makes a beautiful, simple decoration, and one that is easy to make.
The use
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by Chris Elder
People have been constructing earth ovens for thousands of years. The process for building these ovens, also called hornos, has remained unchanged, except we presently have a few more tools at our disposal.
The most abundant and most commonly used building material on earth IS earth. Clay is the key ingredient for that mixture
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by Stephanie Ashton
Rain barrel technology couldn’t be any simpler, yet the results are astounding. Offering a happy triple-whammy of water conservation, a savings in your water bill, and a reduction in the storm water runoff that causes erosion and carries pollutants to our waterways, crafting a barrel takes little effort and little upkeep. Because barrels
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