Tag: organic
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Five Simple Steps to a Successful Vegetable Garden
There are so many wonderful things about gardening. Reconnecting to nature and the earth is relaxing, rewarding and rejuvenating. I love to spend a couple of hours in my garden on weekend mornings and in the evenings after work. Because we use raised beds and no dig beds, I spend a lot more time just…
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We’re Jamming at Cowlick Cottage Farm
The Mango Man delivered my annual order of organic fresh mangoes this weekend! Hurray! They are enormous, sweet, and juicy. Mangoes are quite nutritious, having antioxidant and anticancer properties. Mangoes also have lots of vitamins A and E, which help to protect your heart and balance hormones. Isn’t it nice when something so delicious is…
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I Dig Figs
I was really happy this morning to find a generous handful of fresh figs ripe and ready for us to enjoy. Have you ever feasted upon a fresh fig? I must confess that I never had, until I picked the first one one from our own tree. A fresh ripe fig tastes nothing like a…