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  • Roof-top Kitchen Gardners

    5 members Latest Activity: Nov 16 In the urbanized world today, green roof-tops give material benefits like organic produce, save from excessive summer heat and improve the environment…

  • Root Cellars and Food Storage

    58 members Latest Activity: Nov 16 For those who have root cellars, want root cellars, and want to know more about root cellars; and for those who want to know the various methods in wh…

  • Wild Edible Hunters

    33 members Latest Activity: Nov 13 DIscussion group for people who hunt wild edibles.

  • Gardening with Children

    35 members Latest Activity: Nov 11 Ways to garden with small children, fun ways to get kids interested in gardening and how to teach them to love and care for our Earth.

  • Orchards

    45 members Latest Activity: Oct 19 For those who are growing small orchards, fruit and nut trees, and grapes. Let's discuss growing, pruning, harvesting, care and maintenance.

  • Garden Poetry

    8 members Latest Activity: Oct 21 Does the smell of compost gently simmering wax you poetic? Maybe the sight of newly sprouting seeds fills your heart with song! Share the musing, and…

  • Sacred Gardening

    36 members Latest Activity: Oct 25 For all interested in the Sacred aspects of gardening, regardless of your beliefs or religion or spirituality.. come join us to share thoughts on how…

  • Pickling and Kimchi Club

    37 members Latest Activity: Nov 15 All things to do with preserving vegetables using a brining process or fermentation.

  • Oxford Hills

    2 members Latest Activity: Jun 21 For gardeners in the Oxford Hills area of Western Maine

  • Kitchen Gardens, Southern Style

    102 members Latest Activity: Nov 16 Discussion in this group includes what edibles perform well in our heat and humidity (and also mild winters), favorite ways to prepare a Southern dish…

  • Krishi Patrika, Nepal

    4 members Latest Activity: Jun 7 Krishi Patrika is a fortnightly publication of agricultural news, technologies and farmers right in Nepali languages. Me (Sumitra Pande) is co-editor.…

  • Michigan gardeners

    21 members Latest Activity: Nov 2 This group is for gardeners in Michigan who can share their collective knowledge and experiences about gardening in our area.

  • Pakistan kitchen garden

    19 members Latest Activity: Nov 10 we established kitchen garden group in lahore pakistan to share information on subject

  • Backyard Kitchen Herbalists

    131 members Latest Activity: Nov 8 I would like this group to focus on kitchen herb gardens, be they culinary or medicinal. What do you grow, what do you use it for, do you make any med…

  • East Lake Washington Food Gardeners

    7 members Latest Activity: Jun 18 A place for food-producing people on the east side of Lake Washington to get together, share knowledge, help and goods

  • The Pecking Order

    92 members Latest Activity: Nov 19 Everything chickens! Weather you are a backyad gardener with two or a small farmer with 200 this group is for you. Everything from incubating to but…

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Cool! Thanks Mike - I'm off to check it out now! :-)
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I like seeds of Italy as well. My southern California coastal climate suits many of their varieties well. I also get excellent results from Renee's Garden seeds. Renee's seeds are tested in a number of different climates. Another source is Seeds...
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hello Amna, Do you eat the turnip greens as well as the turnips?
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Penelope, I used to enjoy watching the cooking shows ten years ago. I do not watch them any more. Turn of your TV and enjoy your cooking again. I grow lots of herbs and I enjoy adding them to whatever I am cooking. I love preparing simple and crea...
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Labor is going to foreign countries since ages.In medieval times warriors were required, they left their homes and now you can see many races spread all over the world.In past decades they were called in western and middle eastern countries,its a ...
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Dear Amna! Get ready for much bigger population flow.In past it used to be skilled and semi skilled workers,but now workers with agriculture back ground are in great demand.I recently read an advertisment in news paper ,an overseas recruiters agen...
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This is what we need::::: “Nation Building through Self Reliance” WHAT IS NATION BUILDING THROUGH SELF RELIANCE??? It is a bouquet of Attainable, Retainable and Sustainable initiatives and projects, addressing Best Improvement Practices in all wal...
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I fully agree with the issue that has been highlighted and also agree to the Amna Mufti sahiba's point of view. Please visit www.vegegarden.net and see the presentation on food crisis. I am trying to raise voice since last 3 years. PLEASE! don't w...
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Salma apa! Problem is many fold,our syllabus should be looked again.I remember in our childhood every body have at least wheat,rice and fuel for them selves.They use to do different duties at village level.Some are laborers in fields,some are pott...
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Hi, everybody! When I decided that I wanted to be more active in spreading the word about growing food, I joined the local Master Gardeners group since it has an education mission. This turned out to be a perfect fit for me. I have worked with a ...
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Penelope I simply must begin carding the llama wool on my porch. Is a drum carder in my future?
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HOW TO - ADD A LINK

Several people have experienced difficulty putting working links into comments and blogs etc and I know it is clumsy.... so here is how you do it.....

First type the text you want to appear....  ie  IAN'S PAGE

Then go back and highlight the link text.

Then hit the hyperlink button...a pictogram of a chain link.

Your browser may intervene and request permission to allow temporary scripting or some similar message.   Allow it and go back and highlight the text again

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Created by Ian Jun 7, 2009 at 7:28pm. Last updated by Ian Jun 8.

Forum Policy

Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.

I would be happy to hear any comments you may have.  This is very much a work in progress so plese feel free to ask me to add anything you think is needed.

I don't want to make our community hide bound by rules and regulations but I think that, as the community has grown, some explanation of what is expected is needed.

Administration

You can refer any que

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Created by Ian May 23, 2009 at 1:55am. Last updated by Ian May 25.

Climate maps

Hi following recent discussion I have put climate maps of the USA, Australia and Europe on here for reference..

 Climate map of the USA

Climate map of Australia

Climate map of Europe

 

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Created by Ian Sep 12, 2008 at 6:20pm. Last updated by Ian Apr 14.

Recipes, Recipes, Recipes

Hi Everyone,  I've started to collect together recipes from various posts on the site and put them all together here.

If you have a recipe you want to add on here, just post it on the site and leave a comment on my page telling me where it is and I'll go and fetch it back here.

They are organised in Contributor Order but I'm open to better suggestions!

BEVA'S RECIPES

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Created by Ian Jun 2, 2008 at 9:54am. Last updated by Ian Apr 13.

US STATES ABBREVIATIONS

 

US STATE ABBREVIATIONS

AK - Alaska               AL - Alabama              AR - Arkansas
AZ - Arizona              CA - California           CO - Colorado
CT - Connecticut          DC - Dist of Columbia *   DE - Delaware
FL - Florida              GA - Georgia              GU

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Created by Ian Jan 27, 2009 at 4:27pm. Last updated by Ian Jan 27.

HOW TO - MAKE COMPOST

Recently there was an excellent discussion about composting. I’ve pulled together all the various comments here. You can also watch KGI's video on composting here.

 

 

KATE’S ADVICE

I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but

1 you have to fill it up all at once

2. it seemed mostly

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Created by Ian May 30, 2008 at 5:29am. Last updated by Roger Jan 15.

Notes Home

Welcome to Notes.

To view notes that are in the system hit the "all notes" button above.

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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 12:10pm. Last updated by Ian May. 30, 2008.

A Note about Notes

I have just written this note so that I can see what we can achieve by using this new feature.

If you read this and have any suggestions then please leave a comment on my page or email me.

Ian

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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 6:19pm. Last updated by Ian May. 28, 2008.

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