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Herbs can be used for a variety of purposes: as culinary flavoring, adding spice and depth to meals, or as medicine to treat or prevent common ailments. Having a home medicine chest of medicinal plants is extremely useful and growing...

We went down to work in the garden this morning And all we could say was, “Oh my!” …. and we said that for the next 1/2 hour as we gloried in the beauty before us. I am still stuck...

I know, ‘delicious’ is not a term usually used to describe work, but in our line of business, at this time of year, it is thoroughly apt. We all trundled in to the packing shed last Monday morning and set...

Beekeeping (apiculture, from apis, Latin for bee), is maintenance of a colony of bees, usualky in a man-made box that contains a hive. People keep bees for honey production, as well as the production of beeswax and other by-products, such...

Water is an incredibly important resource. Without ready access to it, we die. Water, theoretically, is a renewable resource, at least, before the specter of climate change became discernible. With some simple design, we can harvest the water we get...

So here I am laid up in bed; which is better than the cold floor I lay on yesterday afternoon till I braved the crawl to here! It took a while to get over the shock of being bought up...