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Wiggly Help for Clay Soil
Worms are natural, right? Well… native worms are natural to your area. Non-native worms are not. Worms that don’t belong in your backyard could reasonably upset the balance of soil critters – perhaps to the extent of becoming invasive and creating a whole new set of problems.
Spring Vegetable Garden Ooppss
Vegetables will grow and be delicious even if they are taxed by a few gardening hiccups. I routinely stress my plants with my unintended slights.
Warm Up To Biochar For Better Soil
Wood scraps are turned into charcoal, rather than burned to ash, resulting in the black gold known as BIOCHAR.
Local Farmer On Letterman
If you thought you saw a local farmer on David Letterman, you weren’t imagining things. Tom Culton, of Lancaster, was featured in a “People and Their Vegetables,” segment on Letterman early in October.
Fertilizer Runoff Harms Watershed
For Blog Action Day, PRG joins 5,000 other blogs in writing about our most precious resource; Water.
Witchcrafted Garden
A witch with a hoe, she is. Secret spells and potions are the only explanation for the robust growth and bloom of Jennifer MacNeill Traylor’s gardens.
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Apple Harvest Fest time!
Farmers through out South Central PA are harvesting their apple crop. The rest of us get to celebrate the start of fall with the luscious apples that this area produces. Today, is the New Cumberland Apple Harvest Festival. My son and I are heading down soon. But next weekend… is the punk rock Apple Festival [...]
CSA is Here to Stay
Farming is changing. As is the way we view our food. And CSA has something to do with it.
Plants and Education at MAEscapes
by Wendy Brister · May 11, 2011
Using native plants in the landscape is vital to the survival of wildlife and the environment of Central Pennsylvania. If you want to know more about using natives in the landscape, attend one or more of the free seminars being offered during the event: