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    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:52:29 GMT</pubDate>

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          <title>A Pearl of Great Price</title>
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            The presence of environmentally friendly businesses has grown substantially over the past few years as the public’s concern for recycling and the need for energy-efficient products has increased. It may be surprising to learn that there are also eco-friendly jewelry designers, and there is one in particular I want to tell you about.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>The Greens Are Always Greener ...</title>
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            To get an earlier crop of greens into our lives this spring (much to the chagrin of my husband), I am taking a stab at growing vegetables in a cold frame (more on the actual cold frame design soon). I started some of the seeds recently and will just grow the seedlings in a sunny, south-facing window—instead of juggling grow lights and heating mats.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:12:52 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Hortatory Horticultural How-Tos and More</title>
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            The season looks like it's finally, <em>finally</em> turning, but not quite fast enough, and I know <em>I'm</em> pining for spring more than in years past. Here are some vicarious garden adventures to tide you over until you can really get out and get your hands dirty:
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        <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:57:52 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>“The Whole House Is a Big Story”</title>
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            I’ve always had a fascination with houses and architecture. As a young girl, I remember walking with my parents through any number of neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., and Old Town Alexandria, staring up at elegant brownstones and wondering, “What does the inside look like? Who lives there? What do they do? How do they live?”
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        <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:15:26 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Belated Fat Tuesday fare</title>
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            The first time I had this dish was almost a decade ago, right after we welcomed the newest member of our family and a friend brought us dinner—some kind of beany, savory, deep red, comforting stuff, served atop sticky rice and nicely complemented with a salad of baby greens. Louis Armstrong’s red beans and rice, my friend Jenny told me. I tormented her until she wrote down the recipe. That dog-eared little card is long gone, so I’ve been making it from memory for a few years now. I’m not sure if it’s as fabulous as that first experience, but it’s pretty fabulous.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:22:22 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>... And Dream of Figs</title>
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            What better way to foil winter’s relentless, evil plan than with memories of warm, fresh figs? We received a small sampling with our CSA this past summer, packed carefully in egg cartons. I had to dig deep into the memory bank—but the hit to all the senses was still there, as was the pining for my own fig tree. Gah! Must have one in my own garden this year. Must!
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        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Gardening sans Garden</title>
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            A late-January e-mail from a client re-lit the garden fire under my rear—she is planning a rooftop container vegetable garden. When I first got into gardening out here in Sugar Hollow, it was mostly executed in containers. We didn’t have the machinery or the means to rip into the cow-compacted red clay (our land used to be part of a larger farm), and the raised beds were just in the planning stages.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:00:24 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Old Paris, New Bottle</title>
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            I love well-designed products and great packaging. After many years of choosing inventory for <a href="http://www.rhballard.com">my shop</a>, of handling and examining countless new products, I've discovered that a product's “first look” is a vital key to its long-term success.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:50:08 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Seed Bombs</title>
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            Seed bombs (also known as seed balls) hold a lot of horticultural promise in a small package. They create a setting in which seeds can flourish under the harshest of conditions. Most often they are associated with guerilla gardening. Here’s <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/apr/25/seedbombing">a succinct look at how to make them</a> from an English insurgent gardener and his introduction of them to the local landscape. “One little seed bomb ready to wreak havoc on the urban wastelands,” he says. Love that quote.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:57:48 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Snow Storm #3</title>
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            Having grown up in Georgia, I don't foresee that the novelty of snow will wear off anytime soon, even after the abundance of it we've had this season. But I know plenty of people who have just plain <em>had it.</em> If you're snowed out of your happy place, I have two suggestions:
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        <pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:07:36 GMT</pubDate>
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