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Create your own vegetable garden

MANILA, Philippines - There is no question that arable lands are shrinking as more cities in the Philippines continue to expand.

Soup swap

Jenn Petrunis lives in Port Orchard and works in Bremerton. She drives to Poulsbo for locally-grown produce, to a Southworth dairy farm for milk and to a friend’s place for fresh eggs.

Master Gardener: How to start a vegetable garden

There has been an increasing interest in growing food in recent years as incomes shrink, food prices rise and concerns grow over healthy eating.

New garden books go way beyond plants and seeds

Six new garden books run the gamut from practical advice on how to get busy building, digging and sowing to an exhortation to simply contemplate plant life. Yet each in its own way spurs thoughts of the greener months...

Robin Hill Estate in Norfolk Sells for $3.95 Million

NORFOLK—Signs that the housing market is heating up again continue to aggregate. Contractors and building suppliers report that business is up dramatically this winter, and now comes word that the logjam of home sales is beginning to break up—at least in Norfolk.

CENTENNIAL EDITION: Good things come in small packages

Sixty-five years ago this month, Bert Walters asked her father to drive her to Laurel to look for a job. She made the most of that 14-mile ride from their home in the Myrick community.  In April 2011, she celebrates 65 years with that same company, the Laurel Leader-Call. She was hired on the spot when she walked into the newspaper office in downtown Laurel.

In the garden: Now’s the time to make plans for spring

These are the planning days, planning for the season ahead. My current garden has been established for about 25 years and didn’t have much planning in the early days. It was more a case of adaptation as requirements changed. The front yard received more consideration. The back had to evolve somewhat on its own as it passed through a number of unavoidable stages.

Church begins work on Garden Box project

MILFORD – On the morning of Jan. 16, a small group gathered at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Milford to honor Martin Luther King Jr. in service and to act on an idea that had been percolating in the back of the Rev. Barbara McKusick-Liscord’s mind for quite a while – The Garden Box Project.

CLC co-sponsors Local Foods College

Central Lakes College, through its Agriculture and Energy Center, is a co-host for seven sessions for farmers to increase the production of local foods in the region by building production and business management skills.

Spring is in the air for Elawa Farm’s Belding

Though officially almost two months off, spring is already here for Rick Belding, the new director of the Garden at Elawa Farm in Lake Forest. Belding is working on his planting plans for the coming season and bringing back some of the original elements of the historic gentleman’s farm. A fruit and vegetable horticulturist, Belding began consulting last spring at Elawa Farm, built in 1917 for A ...