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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.

Growing spuds: Can you dig it?

It is not too early to start planning for this year's vegetable garden. If you have never grown potatoes, you might want to try it this year. Potatoes are easy to grow and a fun and rewarding activity for gardeners of all ages and experience levels. It is important to start with certified seed potatoes. Do not use potatoes sold at grocery stores or ones from last year's garden.

A new gardener’s guide to choosing vegetable varieties

Posted Jan. 20, 2012, at 5:08 p.m. What is the best summer squash variety for a Maine garden?

Truro school seeks to harvest benefits from partnership with farmers

If you’re an oysterman with a lull in sales between October and Christmas, Truro Central School may be your off-season sales outlet. The same goes for year-round vegetable and animal farmers who have enough stock to sell. The school intends to put local foods on the cafeteria menu by spring.

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.

Local Foods College series begins Jan. 24

You can pick your location, and what sessions to attend.

Aspiring Gardener: Trying dry land plants in a wet climate

Native plants can be enhanced in the home garden by exotic transplants.

Adventurous Gardener Tackles Hydrangeas

The South Valley Rose Society will have its annual rose pruning demonstration in the Healing Garden at St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena Campus, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you missed the Las Vegas Valley Rose Society's demonstration in the north

Yardsmart: Think like a designer when you rotate crops

Grow leaf crops in the locations where you grew peas and beans last year. When you shop from catalogs, it's easy to just click and buy. But when it comes to seed catalogs, there's a lot more to the process of picking out what vegetables you want to grow next year.

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.