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Extreme Composting

Here's an interesting article about some of our friends across the pond. It seems they're encouraging folks to do "no-dig, compost gardening." Seems like you'd have to have a lot of compost for that!

Nosy Neighbors - Felder's latest CL column

In this week's Clarion Ledger column, Felder recounts the story of his neighbor who received a scathing rebuke from a nearby somebody who would undoubtedly be better off minding their own ornery business! Read all about it HERE.

Strength Gardening???

Everybody knows that exercise is good for the body as well as the soul. Most of us, though, have some trouble translating that bit of knowledge into action. Well, if you can't seem to find that healthy activity you've been searching for, why not try gardening? A recent column in the Evansville Courier Press says, "The variety of moves required in gardening can tone your muscles; help you maintain balance and burn from 250 to 350 calories an hour, depending on your size and how strenuously you work." Did that pique your interest? Read the whole article HERE.

Felder's Nov. 7th Column

Felder's column this week reminds me of someone I knew growing up. She lived - still does, actually - next to my parents and has a beautiful, beautiful yard, all of which - front and back - is one big garden. She was kind, too, passing along plants to the neighbors and other friends. But she had one uncontrolable impulse: pulling weeds! I would watch every time she wandered into our yard to speak to somebody. Mid-sentence her eye would catch a weed, a little patch of dead grass, something she thought shouldn't be there. She always tried to resist, but it usually wasn't 10 minutes before she would calmly say, as she bent to pick or pull whatever had been stealing an ever-increasing measure of her attention: "Excuse me. I just can't leave that be." I think, somehow, she must live on Felder's street, too. Click here for his most recent Clarion Ledger column.

Felder's Halloween Article

If you'd like to read the column Felder wrote in the Clarion Ledger this Halloween, click here.

The Little Guy Stands Up

Here is a great story from the Chicago Tribune's Problem Solver about an independant garden center owner standing up to the big guys.