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Why Save Seed? GMO’s and Your Garden
by Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – Last week we discussed some of the more obvious reasons for saving your own seed: to be more self-sufficient and save money, to adapt varieties to the local...
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Why Save Seed? Patents in the Garden
by Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – Another issue related to GMO’s is the patenting of life forms by the grain giants and the pharmaceutical industry. Make no mistake – the money to be made on the...
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Are You Surrounded by Green Inside?
Jill Henderson:The gardeners soul is never far from the garden and I love the way Robbie shares his love of gardening with simple words and powerful images. Sowing the future of flitting butterflies,...
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BORROW…GROW…SHARE! A New Seed Library in Springfield, MO
I am so excited to share with you the new Heirloom Seed Library located at the Library Station and the Midtown Carnegie Branch Library in Springfield, MO. These folks have worked really hard to build...
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Garden Time: Starting Seeds Indoors (Part One)
Jill Henderson:An oldie, but a goodie from the Show Me Oz archives… Originally posted on Show Me Oz: By Jill Henderson It’s the deepest, coldest part of winter and by now you’ve probably spent weeks...
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Seed Saving Fundamentals Course
Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – I don’t do this very often, but I wanted to share a great educational opportunity with those of you who are serious about saving seed. My friend Justin Huhn, master...
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Garden Time: Starting Seeds Indoors (Part Two)
Jill Henderson:Are you starting seeds indoors? Enjoy Part Two of this in-depth two part series on how to start quality vegetable plants at home from our trusty archives! Don’t forget to follow the...
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Don’t Let Your Garlic Die! Make the Most of Your Winter Stash
by Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – Every summer, Dean and I spend a measurable amount of time harvesting, cleaning, curing, and braiding the organic garlic we produce in our garden. We use garlic in...
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Fun in the Garden with Critters
By Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – Ahhh! Who doesn’t love a spring day? The birds are singing and the flowers are blooming and it’s just a beautiful free for all. We’ve spent a lot of time in the garden...
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Harvesting and Using the Flowers of Herbs
by Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – After a long, cold winter, spring has finally arrived in my neck of the woods. At long last, the dormant herbs in the garden have erupted in a wave of fresh green...
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Why You Should Grow Heirloom Seeds
Guest Post by Sam at Organic Lesson Those who are unfamiliar with the seeds industry would be unaware of the growing battles between the types of seeds that exist in the market today. In general, seeds...
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Demystifying Tomato Sizes
By Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – Have you ever perused a seed catalog looking for the perfect tomato and been a little confused by the size descriptions? I have. And as someone who recently has had to...
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Seed Saving Time: Legumes
By Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – If you’re planning on saving some of your own seeds this summer, the very best time to start is before a single seed goes in the ground. In fact, your seed saving...
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Garden Time: Walking Onions
by Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – Growing up in the heart of Cajun and Creole country, I learned early on that no dish is truly complete unless it begins with a mess of sweet and savory onions. Of...
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Seed Saving Time: What’s in a Name?
by Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – If you garden, I’ll bet you’ve talked to your plants before. Don’t worry, I do it, too. It’s perfectly normal. Common even. People talk to all kinds of animate and...
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The New Nature
by Allison Vaughn – Guest Post Recently, there has been a surge in literature throughout the conservation community highlighting the importance of native plant gardening for the sustainability of...
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Slow & Steady: Turtles in the Ozarks
by Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – When we first moved to the Ozarks it was a three-toed box turtle that inspired us to call our place Turtle Ridge Farm. The first morning after moving in, we opened the...
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Lawnmowers and Strangers
By Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – After a long summer of bashing against rocks, half buried stumps, and knee-deep grass the Ozarks finally killed our lawnmower. We worked that machine pretty hard and...
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GMO’s Threaten Seed Savers
by Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – There’s a wonderful feeling that comes over me when the garden I have planned and tended and nurtured finally begins to pay off. Of course, I’m pleased with the...
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Wild Walk: Monarda
by Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz – There is nothing quite as enchanting as a chance encounter with a wild patch of flowering monarda. The electric colors of their shaggy, upright flowers light up the...
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