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Where to Shop: For a Healthy Garden, It’s Common Ground in Palo Alto
San Marzano and a dozen or more varieties of tomatoes WHEN IS A GARDEN STORE MORE THAN JUST A GARDEN STORE ? This is not a riddle–or maybe it is! The answer is when it is Common Ground Garden Supply,...
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Your Vote Will Help Build a Community Garden in Vallejo
Site of a future community garden, Mare Island, Vallejo, California (bleak now, but it could be beautiful) Vallejo, my home city for the past two years, has suffered some setbacks in these difficult...
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Celebrating the Bright, Sun-Loving Flowers of Summer
I wonder if we Californians aren’t a bit spoiled by the abundance of flowers, both locally grown and shipped in from distant points, which we enjoy year around. Things were a bit different when as a...
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Lee Brokaw’s Gardening Secret (Borrowed from the Native Americans)
Indian Moon tomatoes (a Navaho variety) in Lee Brokaw's garden. Other of his favorites: Black Prince, Green Grape and Bloody Butcher, new this year. By day, Lee Brokaw is a general contractor, in his...
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Berkeley Middle Schoolers Cook With Passion In Iron Chef Contest
———— ———— You’ve all watched the Food Network’s Iron Chef: two chefs have an hour to prepare five dishes based around a secret ingredient, and three judges award points based on flavor, originality and...
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Paul Schmitt’s ABC’s of Composting (It’s A Great Thing To Do, And Really Not...
———– ———– Editor’s note: I’m not the sort of person who feels guilty about very much. But one thing I do feel guilty about is that my kitchen scraps at home go into the garbage, and hence into a...
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Travel: 16th Century China Comes Alive In Portland’s Magical Lan Su Garden
———– ———– Travel is one of the things in life which has brought me a lot of joy. To visit historical and cultural sites can make vivid times and places we’ve only read about–Kyoto’s temples or the old...
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Succulents: Beautiful, Easy to Grow, and Drought Tolerant
———– ———– One of the pleasures of living in the Bay Area is the seemingly endless number of hidden treasures which await discovery. Although I’ve lived here some thirty years, only yesterday did I get...
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