News & Updates
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
By Suzanne at GrowOrganic.com on July 31, 2017 Yummy summer veggies waiting for the table The dog days of summer are here! The garden is in full swing and the squash, beans, tomatoes, peppers and more overflowing our harvest basket. Here is a handy list to help you through the month of August and prepare…
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Orofino Farmers Market Celebrates National Farmers Market Week
Orofino Farmers Market joins markets across the country in celebrating National Farmers Market Week, August 6-12. Vendors at the market on Tuesday, Aug. 8 will be giving away Idaho Preferred farmers market tote bags to the first 120 customers, one per family please. Kid’s coloring pages will also be available. Farmers markets help preserve America’s…
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How Its Made: Would You Eat THAT?
Before you bite into that apple or pick up an extra loaf of supermarket bread, you should know where your food comes from. A quick warning, however—it’s not pretty. by R.J. Wilson 1. Apples are covered with ground-up bug resin. It’s called “shellac,” and it’s a waxy resin secreted by the lac bug. That’s what…
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Its Almost “Flu Shot Season”
It’s almost the beginning of ‘flu season’ or as I like to call it ‘flu shot season’. Viruses don’t know what time of year it is, but the pharmaceutical companies and the CDC certainly do. Watch for the dire warnings to begin any day now: it’s the worst flu season yet, supplies of flu vaccines…
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Guerrilla Gardeners. Rebuilding Communities Growing Independence.
The most effective change-makers in our society aren’t waiting around for a new president to make their lives better, they’re planting seeds, quite literally, and through the revolutionary act of gardening, they’re rebuilding their communities while growing their own independence. Every four years when the big election comes around, millions of people put their passion…
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Give Up Round Up Organic Alternative For Sale in Boise
Hey, did you know you DO NOT NEED TO USE ROUND UP to kill the weeds? Round-up contains cancer causing toxins and it breaks down into even scary toxins left in the environment causing harm to children, animals, and plants alike. Vinegar- it didn’t have that sort of track record! But it DOES KILL WEEDS!!…