In brief vignettes accompanied by her brother’s beautiful illustrations, Margaret draws attention to common occurrences happening with the birds and the squirrels, the trees and the bees, the plants and the pollinators, week by week, while also reflecting on her own life and the parallels these...
Our model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandma’s rose garden and Dad’s vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that’s not what’s important. 【4】 —how being in those gardens made us feel. If you’d like to build a powerful bond with your garden...
I am looking forward to getting some milkweed plants from an acquaintance at the Palos forest preserve restoration project who has promised me some plants in April. I have had no luck planting milkweed from seeds. I have swamp milkweed and butterfly weed, but am eager to plant some asclepi...
less to say to anyone who wasn’t a bicoastal progressive. For me, the point came sometime between 9-11 then the election of Obama; definitely by the time of the rise of the Tea Party. NPR looked at the Tea Party with the horrified interest of someone discovering a dead worm in ...
It’s not as difficult as you think and you can buy seedlings to graft from other members. I expect to see those in the Buy/Sell Area soon. And of course you can always ask, people have all kinds of plants they are willing to sell but might not have an ad up at the moment. Jus...
Because the primary heat source is at the bottom of the wok, regularly stirring to give all the pieces a little love is important. The eggplant is ready to come out of the pan when it has softened slightly, and there is a light char on the edges of the vegetable. That little bit of...
Veggie (Vegetable) meat A new kind of hamburger is now popular in the US. It looks the same as any other hamburger, and so is the taste. But it’s actually a “beef” burger made out of plants. The company behind the burger, Impossible Foods, uses peas and potatoes to make the “...
I.ate J.shopping K.did L.look M.rode N.went O.taking P.buy 1.动词原形: 2.过去式: 3.动词-ing 形式: Ⅱ.Choosethebestanswer.(选择最佳答案) ( )1.— did you go to Beijing? —By plane. A.What B.Where C.How ( )2.What did they do ? A.yesterday B.tomorrow C.every day ( ...
Continue to not buy a single bottle of plastic bottled water – 12th year in a row Done! Not so easy now having kids and a family in my life but I don’t buy any for me!!! Look up! Appreciate all that world that exists way above eye level! I love this one and now 3 years ...
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