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Backyard Vegetable Garden News

Garden of Month: Our Daily Bread Pantry

The Lehigh Acres Edible Gardening Exchange has selected Our Daily Bread Pantry Vegetable Garden, at 1418 Homestead Road N., in Lehigh Acres, as the garden of the month for February because of its success as a volunteered-driven dream that transformed a plain backyard into a renewable food resource for the pantry.

Marblehead family makes way for ducklings

As vegetarians, Marblehead’s Kindle family tries, as much as possible, to grow its own food. The family has a vegetable garden in their backyard as well as its own compost pile. Recently, however, the family took its organic lifestyle a step further by adopting some unusual pets — four baby ducklings.

Learn how to raise chickens or spring veggies in San Ramon

SAN RAMON -- The San Ramon Library will present a free program Thursday on how to start a spring vegetable garden.Contra Costa Master Gardener Janet Miller, will speak on how to successfully plan, prepare and grow a spring/summer vegetable garden.

Green Thai

Look to your backyard for the ingredients of a tasty Asian soup, JACKIE FRENCH writes

Food Security Is Top Reason for New Gardeners to Grow Food, Survey Shows

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- What is behind the huge trend of vegetable gardens and backyard chickens?Surprisingly, it is not the higher costs of groceries. A recent survey showed the biggest ...

Browne: Warm temps bring interest growing produce

It seems to me that since the first of January, there have been more soil samples brought in from home gardeners and more inquires about backyard vegetable production techniques than in previous years.

Greening up the backyard

LOW income families with children will get a boost to make improvements to their gardens with a Backyard Improvement Program Kit, launched by the Living with Lead Alliance yesterday.

Weekend Trashing Leaves Neighbors Fuming

by Times Newsweekly Staff photos by Joseph Epstein Frustrated with a fruit and vegetable store that read more

How My Backyard Is Saving Me Money

How my yard has saved our family thousands of dollars a year. Contributor: C. Jeanne Heida Published: Feb 02, 2012

Folks flock to Home and Garden Show

The Freedom Hall Civic Center parking lot was jam-packed with cars Saturday as crowds of people filtered through the 43rd Annual Home and Garden Show, presented by the Home Builders Association.