Lure birds to your landscape
Lure birds to your landscape San Antonio Express-News Copyright 2012 San Antonio Express-News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 03:55 p.m., Friday, January 6, 2012 Cover is a broad category of plants that includes thickets and tangles along with plants across every level of the habitat from ground cover, low plants, tall ...
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Library offers several Master Gardener classes
The Norwood Young America Library is hosting several Master Gardener classes in the upcoming months. Classes, all of which begin at 1:30 p.m., will be taught by Carver/Scott Master Gardener Dave Daubert. Call (952) 467-2665 for more information.
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Mayor's bill to allow chickens in Annapolis receives support
Annapolis residents this week asked city leaders not to chicken out. A crowd filled the City Council chambers Monday night for a hearing on a proposal to allow residents to have up to five egg-laying hens in their backyards. Aldermen said they've been inundated with emails and phone calls from residents about the chicken bill, introduced last month. From some, the egg-layers legislation has ...
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LEED for the Outdoors? Landscapes Get Their Own Green Certification Standards
Green-building standards like LEED and SEED help guide and spur environmentally conscious construction. But step outside the door and into the garden, the campus quad, or the street, and there’s never been one set of rules to promote sustainability. Until now. The American Society of Landscape Architects and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas at Austin have been ...
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Cultivating global green thumbs
For many, yard work can be a chore. For Nadia Malarkey, the care and cultivation of her backyard labyrinth of trees, vines and plants is perennially a joy. At their best, gardens can be places of respite, connection and, above all, environmental stewardship.
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Events 1-27-11
Author Chip Bishop will discuss and sign copies of his new book, The Lion and the Journalist , at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 31 at the Brewster Ladies’ Library, 1822 Main St. The book follows the story of President Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop, the newspaperman who was the president’s biographer.
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Volunteers/Donations Needed 2/7
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES/DONATIONS NEEDEDBird rescue Wild B.I.R.D., 1880 S. Quebec Way, Denver, needs adult volunteers and monetary donations to help continue operations at its rehabilitation
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Coming Events
- A July Summer Picnic will take place on Friday, July 30 at 12:30 p.m. at McKee Seniors Recreation Centre, 5155-47th Ave., Ladner. Cold plate, dessert and beverage, and entertainment.
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Gardening with Laurie: Start your spring gardens
Spring-like temperatures and some wonderful rain is all we gardeners need to make for a wonderful day. I've heard from several gardeners that they received anywhere from to 3 inches of rain this past week. The rain was wonderful. We still need lots more, but let's be grateful for any we get.
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Celebrating our home and native nutrition
Choosing to eat locally grown and raised food can extend lessons to children about what's in their diets, where it comes from and how it's grown.
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