Author: Brian Gallimore
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Citizen Gardener Class – Fort Worth – 8/13/2011
I’m very happy to announce the very first Citizen Gardener class to be held in the North Texas / DFW area will be in Fort Worth on August 13, 2011. The idea to start this class came from our spring Permaculture Design Class. Dick Pierce (the instructor) had mentioned the program and I thought it sounded…
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Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen
EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce (click link for full article) Eating fresh food is very valuable, but what if that food is contaminated with a bunch of pesticides that you really do not want to ingest? Use EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides to reduce your exposures as much as possible, but eating conventionally-grown produce…
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Fall Planting for DFW / North Texas Area
When the temperature each day is getting up above 100°F and staying above 80°F each night, it doesn’t seem very instinctual to plan for a bunch of new plant life in your vegetable garden — but that is what people in the know do. It is one of the secrets of vegetable gardening in the…
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DFW Aquaponics Group
Creating a closed-loop system of growing fish and growing plants without soil is aquaponics. It utilizes the plants as a filter for fish waste, or maybe is uses fish waste as plant food, but however you say it, these systems are pretty exciting and fun to experiment with. Adam Cohen is mentoring folks interesting in…
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Vegetable Gardening 101
The most common questions about gardening come from people just starting out: What do I do? How do I start? Most any experienced gardener will tell you they never stop learning, so don’t wait until you think you ‘know it all’ to get started; try following some common guidelines, get started NOW, and learn as…