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    Potions and an herb book
    ...herbs, including recipes, as well as ideas for laying out themed gardens, including a "Cook's herb garden," and "Aromatherapy herb gardens." The best idea we'd not thought of: The "Herb Bath Garden," lush with scented plants you can dry, tie up in a musli...
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    Eating locally: How hard could it be?
    ...and stirred until the whole thing formed a molten mass of local, sprinkled with fresh herbs from my garden. ""I ate more eggs than normal - over-easy, scrambled, soft-boiled. It wasn't a problem; the fresh eggs tasted like gifts from some decadent and...
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    Horticulturist re-creating history at Old Economy Village gardens
    ...Longwood Gardens; Craig George, director of Hershey Gardens; and Eileen Yeager, who will speak on herbs.""In addition, there will be a garden market. Fee for the workshop is $75; lunch is included. Registration deadline is Monday. For information call:...
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    Ms. Cheap: Herb sale offers thrifty seasonings for favorite dishes
    ...that much for a few leaves of an herb that will be prolific in my herb garden in just a few weeks.""I guarantee you I won't be buying any more of those packaged fresh herbs at the grocery when my garden gets up and running. I could grow some from seed for...
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    PLANT SALES: Find Texas-tough perennials and rare varieties
    ...April 20. Oak Cliff Earth Day, Lake Cliff Park, 201 E. Colorado Blvd.""Vegetables, flowers and herb plants, plus tours of the garden's new water catchment system and experimental straw-bale greenhouse. Our Saviour Community Garden is a Heifer Internationa...
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    Calendar: Park Cities home tour and more
    ...April 20. Oak Cliff Earth Day, Lake Cliff Park, 201 E. Colorado Blvd.""Vegetables, flowers and herb plants, plus tours of the garden's new water catchment system and experimental straw-bale greenhouse. Our Saviour Community Garden is a Heifer Internationa...
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    Form, function, food
    ...Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, the landscape told him he was in a royal setting."" The herb and vegetable garden and orchard were off to the side, tucked away but conveniently close to the kitchen. The elaborate pleasure garden was located in back of...
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    A look at upcoming gardening events
    ...p.m., Disabled American Veterans Hall, 1110 N. Stevens St., Tacoma. Hardy and basket fuchsias. ""Medicinal herb garden and Reflexology Path. Features botanicals used in both Western and Asian natural medicine. Free self-guided tours anytime, always open....
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    10 design pointers to brighten your space
    ...around to the other side). Use low hedges to delineate areas without closing them in. herb gardens use this to good effect -- a hedge made of lavender, germander or Japanese holly can section off an area of the garden as well as a wall of ""A pond, a...
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    Find Holiday Gifts and Decorating Ideas in This Free eBook
    ...of the most treasured gifts are handmade. There are a variety of gift ideas using herbs straight from your garden. Their fragrance and culinary value make these time-honored craft projects a most welcome gift,""The book offers simple instructions on how t...
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    SCV Outdoor Report: The Smell Of Fresh Earth
    ...and activity schedule and for trail maps, go to www.LAMountains.com.""This week I planted a few herbs in my kitchen garden, which consists of a few mismatched pots on our back porch. The moist potting soil was crumbly and marvelously odiferous,...
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    For Healthy Peas In Hot Weather, Just Add Water!
    ...the soil in your garden. Includes information on my...""A list many of the more popular herbs that appear in American gardens. each herb is identified as ...""I well remember the April day back in Missouri when I was proudly showing my Ozark garden to a...
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    Gardening books bring out the best for those with green thumbs - The Mississippi Press
    ...are answered, plus many more. "" Reeves and Felder tell about the best vegetables and herbs for a Mississippi garden and provide charts with information about the number of days required from planting to harvest. "" Among the surprises in the "Guide to...
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    Stately gardens
    ...enter the west gate and turn to the right, you will pass by the Mansion herb garden or Herbary. The oldest permanent garden on the property, it?s a project of the Arkansas Unit of the Herb Society of America, whose members plan, plant, weed and care for...
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    Explore the gardens of North Devon
    ...of ideas to inspire visitors for every season. "" Always popular are the Cottage and herb gardens and the Potager, which demonstrates decorative vegetable planting, while three model gardens show design solutions for the average domestic plot....
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    Washington Post Garden Editor
    ...an avid organic gardener who believes chemicals are a last resort, also tends his own herb and vegetable gardens where he grows peas, garlic, onions, lettuce, rhubarbs, radishes, carrots and more. "" Higgins is the author of two books, "The Secret Gardens...
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    Applewood Acres Gardening & Landscaping Launches Organic Gardening ...
    ...encouraging children to have an enjoyable time doing such things as creating a vegetable or herb garden, planting small trees or a perennial garden, while at the same time learning about how to care for plants."")-- Richard Brzakala, President of Applewoo...
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    Keeping a legacy alive
    ...feeders, wind chimes, fountains, patio furnishings, and natural organic insect repellents as well as plants, herbs, shrubs and lawn and garden goods."""I was exposed to it at an early age," Mr. Jurgenson says. "That was probably one of the first things...
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    Garden Festival takes over State Capitol Complex
    ...to West Virginia, wheat weavings, stoneware pottery, bath and body products, homemade lye soap, candles, herbs, lip balm, garden signs and T-shirts. In addition, lunches provided by AAA Catering of Charleston will be available for purchase all...
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    Trendiest containers are old-fashioned terra cotta
    ...Lane Herb Farm in Albert Mines will speak on Getting Started with Herbs and Using Herbs You Grow.""n The Gardener, written by Bill Robb, appears each Thursday in the Times & Transcript. Bill can be reached by e-mailing to robbe@timestranscript.com or by...
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    Paradise is a Garden
    ...local pecans, Coyote Corners Eggs, Desert Oasis Soaps, Fiesta Growers (wide variety of vegetable and herb starts for the garden.)""Top salad greens with sliced or minced vegetables in 3 quart bowl. Drizzle salad with dressing and toss to coat. Serve...
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    Basil works beautifully as a container plant. (Comstock)
    ...not die and seemingly grow through concrete! Unless you want nothing but these two invasive herbs in the garden, plant in pots sunken into the soil. "...
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    The Herbivore's Dilemma
    ...orange or yellow if left longer on the stalk.""As for herbs, Simmons recommends five essential herbs for any mini garden: tarragon, chives, basil, sage and rosemary. All of these Scarborough Fair wannabes grow well in smaller containers."", or little...
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    Plant a Window Garden ? Get a copy of "First Garden Activity Book"
    ...to get kids growing something tasty and/or aromatic so I often take them into my herb garden and let them sniff and taste things. Then we dig up starts or make cuttings and talk about how they should care for them. One ~9 year-old ended up supplying mint...
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    World of wonder
    ...high brick walls, it has a very special atmosphere, full of the scent of the herbs, roses and cottage garden flowers that grow exuberantly in its borders.""The layout of Chesters Walled Garden follows classic lines ? hedges of box and yew define its shape...
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    GARDENING: Herbal remedy
    ...and even ice cream."""You're only restricted by your own mind," says Smith, who dries whatever herbs she can't use right away.""Master gardener Susan F. Smith's Rapho Township yard is already blooming with herbs. "The herbs I grow""Master gardener Susan F...
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    Grow your own vegetables and take control of your food
    ...much any other kind, however, yields great results, from tomatoes to peppers, radishes, lettuce and herbs. The keys to container gardening are to select the right soil, assure there is good moisture, put the planters in the best location and provide a...
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    FROM THE GARDEN : Drakes Creek transforms from ghost town to ...
    ...She continued to restore the town.""In 2007, Jo achieved her dream of sharing knowledge of herbs, flowers, gardening and painting with the opening of Garden Gate Herbs and Flowers Retreat.""Local flower and garden experts teach classes on herbs, flower...
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    Garden workshop at MCC will help you live closer to nature
    ...for shipping food -- grow it yourself.""With a 5-acre farm that includes an orchard, an herb garden and an acre of vegetables, Rich and Wendy Tobiasz are living that life.""They also raise chickens, goats and sheep to provide eggs, meat, milk, cheese and...
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    Sage words - Guardian
    ...their keep by attracting insects for pollination, which in turn helped to establish an ecosystem.""The herb and vegetable gardens were established in relatively traditional styles, but in 2006 McVicar and Oliver joined forces again on a more unusual...
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    Rachel de Thame transforms a Cotswold garden
    ...of cow parsley and rosebay willowherb that filled the area I?d allocated for a future herb garden, and accepted, with the relief that comes from resignation, the gradual encroachment of the field as it inched its way up the ha-ha and invaded the...
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    Kumquats ?the little gems? of North Florida
    ...torchwood (Amyris elemifera), and hercules-club (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis). Or grow some rue (Ruta graveolens) in the herb garden, for it is another favorite host plant.""Marie Harrison is a Master Gardener Volunteer with the University of Florida IFAS...
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    Cardoon looks great in garden and on the plate
    ...in the ornamental flowerbed, though I suppose it might have its place in a large herb or vegetable garden.""At my local mall, cardoon is being used in several locations with other cool-season color such as Amazon Rose Magic dianthus and pansies. At one...
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    Garden club meets Thursday
    ...Tansy Lane Herb Farm in Albert Mines. Carole's talk will be on edible plants and herb garden design. Her web site is www.tansylane.com.""The St. Andrews bus trip on July 19 and 20 is filling up fast. There are still 14 seats available for those who may...
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    GREEN SCENE: Common sense key
    ...match your theme colour.""Birds, bees and butterflies are attracted to color, flowers, and seeds. An herb garden will provide all of these qualities.""Though our thoughts are of spring and summer, remember the long rainy days just passed. Plant some shrub...
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    Rolling along with the herb garden
    ...letter about the benefits that come in the winter when you grow?and freeze?herbs."I have two herb gardens," she wrote, explaining that she plants a variety of herbs in a wheelbarrow "that can be moved from location to location if getting enough sun during...
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    OS herb, garden festival blooms - The Mississippi Press
    ...garden enthusiasts this weekend as the Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce holds the 15th annual Herb and Garden Festival. "" The two-day event, which begins Saturday at 9 a.m., will showcase plants and herbs for gardening, landscaping, culinary use and...
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    In the garden: Take a flavorful, fragrant creative herbal journey
    ...harvest, such as basil and lemon verbena. These ideas and lists will help personalize an herb garden. Some of the basics: Organic and natural are a must when growing and caring for edibles in the garden. What goes on the plants eventually goes in the body...
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    Garden: During spring planting, do not forget about perennials
    ...and eggplant. I'll plant the seeds of squash, melon and okra. I also have an herb garden where I will plant some chives and lemon thyme. My lemon verbena has barely returned this year, so I may put in a new seedling to get a head start. Many of my herbs...
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    Thompson Museum hosts garden classes
    ...is $10 and pre?registration is required.""Susan Betz will present a class on designing a kitchen herb garden at 10 a.m. on May 10. She has been growing herbs for the past 25 years and has owned and operated ?The Little Farm Herb Shop? in Allen for over 10...
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    Gardens of Old Palo Alto
    ...and planting climbing roses along the wall. Medieval monks typically grew fruits, vegetables and medicinal herbs in the monastery gardens, and the combination of fruit trees and roses in the front yard emphasizes the medieval notion of the practicality an...
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    Plant, flower festival draws crowds
    ...were purchased as part of a family project, she said."" ?We?re going to do an herb garden, this is something we can do as mother and daughters. This is our first time ? we?re going to try to do this together, so we can cook and put this in the food that w...
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    Cheap Gardening Tips For Beginners
    ...won't have spent all your savings on high-tech bits and bobs.""Do you fancy a little herb garden? What about having a go at home-grown food? Or perhaps you'd like some nice bright flowers and shrubs? Here are some ideas to get you started.""Mint and lemon...
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    Integrative medicine center offers herb gardening series
    ...will offer ?How Green Grows My Garden,? a four-part gardening series designed to help budding herb gardeners open new avenues of cooking, nurturing, relaxation and health-starting right in their own back yards. "" Classes will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. at the...
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    Annual Mill Valley tour highlights designer's colorful, eclectic style
    ...home as well as five others. Other houses include one with a terraced vegetable and herb garden; a cozy 1916 cottage with panoramic views of downtown Mill Valley and Richardson Bay; a newly remodeled home with clean lines, views and an antique Medusa pool...
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    Gardening: Home-grown plants make herb farm unique
    ...possible for her to grow an even wider variety of plants this year. Plus, the herb garden in the back was re-worked and new beds planted to adjust to changing weather patterns.""?Moonshadow is a small, retail nursery specializing in medicinal, crafting,...
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    Easy to grow, herbs' little leaves burst with flavor
    ...40-acre gardens, which are open to the public year-round, are home to the half-acre Colonial herb garden. There you'll see many of the herbs -- culinary, medicinal and ornamental -- that early Colonial settlers would have grown and relied upon. Many of...
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    Seaside Gardeners schedule tea
    ...in June 1983.""This club offers flower arrangements at Ventress Memorial Library each week, maintains the herb garden and provides flowers for social events at the Winslow House, awards scholarships to Marshfield students and designs and decorates a room...
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    Home and Garden Briefs for March 28 issue
    ...adults, free for military with ID and children 12 and under. Call (800) 765-3976 or ""HERB FESTIVAL & TOMATOMANIA: Quail Botanical Gardens in Encinitas hosts its 11th annual Herb Festival Spring Plant Sale and Tomatomania from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday an...
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    Dandelion control -- Not all those yellow flowers that are ...
    ...of Growing Turfgrass in Kansas" by Rodney St. John of K-State""1 p.m. "Growing and Using Herbs" by master gardener Kay Neff of Neff Family Farm"" As part of its Treehouse Concerts series, the Bartlett Arboretum in Belle Plaine will feature art and musical...
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    Freshen your food with herbs: Everything from basil to thyme can ...
    ..."French cooks use herbs from kitchen gardens and lush fields to create dishes with fragrance and flavor. ""Bouillabaisse -- a traditional French fish stew -- is seasoned with saffron, fennel, sage, thyme and laurel to create a hearty flavor and a...
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    Packing lunches with your kids
    ..."With spring around the corner, Chef Jon Ashton has started a new project - an herb garden. And while he's planted herbs before, this garden means something special to him. He's been working on it with his toddler daughter Victoria Mei."""I never planted...
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    Growing herbs great way to add 'spice to your life'
    ...something that can add a new dimension to the taste of food.""?My mother always used herbs from her garden in cooking and when I became a homeowner, I added an herb garden to my yard,? she said. ?When I cook I want things to taste good, and herbs add a...
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    Good ideas | Gardens
    ...Avenue South and Renton Avenue South, Seattle (206-684-4584 or "" One of the largest medicinal herb gardens in the Western Hemisphere, plus trees and shrubs, open daylight hours daily, University of Washington campus along Stevens Way across from the...
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    Wanted: Gardeners with a passion for a new TV programme
    ...one room to the next through hidden paths. ""You stroll through the spacious and sunny herb garden then slip along a cutting with high banks on either side to emerge into a bluebelled woodland glade from which you are led out to the pond with a waterfall...
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    Garden Party
    ...Joe-Pye Weed and Black-Eyed Susan. An old claw-foot bathtub provides a water feature. Here a herb garden, there a row of tomatoes and strawberries; everywhere you look is a surprise like citrus trees, native star anise, old-fashioned roses or the newest...
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    Elderly Mom Sleeps Most Of The Time
    ...involve her in former activities. If she enjoyed gardening, encourage her to plant a windowsill herb garden or tend flowering plants in large pots. Make sure she can reach her projects easily and safely - especially if she uses a wheelchair. Try to...
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    15th Annual Herb & Garden Festival
    ...sea of green in Ocean SpringsSunday. Hundreds of people came out for the 15th annual Herb and Garden Festival. ""This is Baker's14th year attending the festival and she says she uses the annual event to stock up her Long Beach herb shop.""Her...
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    Spring is in the air and the action is picking up
    ...starts at 6:30 in the Library meeting Room.""By the way, Hanson??s Garden Village is offering herb and moss garden planter classes this month. You can design and create your own beautiful planters with expert guidance and they will keep and care for your...
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    Ozark odyssey ? Small mountain town preserves music, history, lore ...
    ...grown in the terraced hillside garden, which has been recognized as one of the premiere herb gardens in the South.""The center also features live music performances of traditional, pre-World War II music at venues in the park and nightly in the...
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    Spring Woods photo competition
    ...an appetite, they can admire the recreated gardens and grounds, including the new Japanese Garden, herb garden and many acres of woodland walks. After coffee, they can visit the hotel museum to enjoy the story of the people who built, worked at and visite...
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    Dry green - Pasadena Weekly
    ...and many were used for food or medicinal purposes by Native Americans. Theresa Richau, the Herbs of the World garden curator at the LA Arboretum & Botanic Garden, feels people come to the Arboretum "to be healed" and gardens have that special power.""As a...
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    Roasted chicken is perfect way to celebrate spring
    ...has finally arrived, awakened our spirits and our flower beds, and, most celebratory -- our herb gardens!""Growing up, my parents always had the most beautiful herb garden filled with bushels of basil, flowering green onion, tons of thyme, rosemary and, o...
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    Plan an afternoon of garden hopping
    ...gardeners. Your party is set if you can visit a beautiful butterfly garden, a fragrant herb garden, a dramatic all-white-flower garden and a spectacular water garden.""However, most of us don't have gardens worthy of a magazine cover. So be creative when...
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    Frilly lavender toughens up
    ..."But if you have a straggly clump of this popular herb in your garden poking through the last snowdrifts, resist the urge to cut it back now. Wait a bit longer. Because of its balmy origins, lavender is extremely sensitive to late frosts. I once cut a...
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    Kayaking, summer salads, and herb gardening highlight CECE offerings
    ...is offering classes on making spring and summer salads, whitewater kayaking, and planning your medicinal herb garden during the next month.""The Spring & Summer Salads class will be held April 1 at 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Red Lion Hote. Chef Bill Jollymore...
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    Kevin Weeks
    ...plans have adapted to include Ed's veggies.""My own gardening efforts have primarily been limited to herbs and tomatoes in pots. Full-blown gardens are more work than I'm interested in. Nevertheless, habits and sensibilities die hard. When I moved into my...
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    Ithaca Forward: The signs of spring are upon us
    ...you'll find local musicians filling the air with heavenly sounds.""Another way to begin a tasty herb garden is to enjoy a weekend along the Cayuga Wine Trail. During the Wine and Herb Festival, participants can visit all 16 wineries on the trail and enjoy...
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    Good Turnout For Herb Fest 2008
    ..."Saturday the Thyme For Herbs Society kicked off the spring gardening season with Herb Fest 2008.""The annual event has grown beyond herbs into a massive plant sale involving five other specialty garden clubs.""There were dozens of pre-planted varieties o...
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    Bunny's tale influences 25th anniversary of Herb Society of ... - The Saginaw News
    ...Basket of Goodies and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle's Garden Pies.""may recall Peter Rabbit gorged himself on the herbs and vegetables in the farmer's garden and narrowly escaped with his life.""Speakers are Carol Czechowski, a member of the Beatrix Potter Society,...
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    Boyce Thompson Arboretum Herb Festival April 5 Includes Sonoita Author
    ...On April 5 (Saturday) exhibit booths will be set up across from the Wing Memorial herb garden inviting visitors to learn about parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme - and many other culinary and medicinal herbs which thrive here in Arizona. Daily admission of...
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    Herbs, garden take spotlight in OS
    ...the Peter Anderson festival, too."""Gray skies didn't prevent gardening enthusiasts from attending the 15th annual Herb and Garden festival in downtown Ocean Springs on Saturday."...
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    Fennel, so fresh and versatile
    ...them on the coal. They are a very hardy plant and introducing it to your herb garden will lead to a plentiful supply.""The fennel used in today's recipe is Florence fennel. It has the same delicate anise flavour as the herb, but grows a bulb-like base of...
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