Love of hummingbirds brings joy to everyday life
A Seed Library for Heirloom Plants Thrives in the Hudson Valley
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AS a child, Peg Lotvin used to watch her father, Hank, head out into his garden every fall on a mission. After setting aside part of the bean harvest for his neighbor Flossy, who was reputed to make the best baked beans in all of Ghent, in New York’s Hudson Valley, he would select the largest, heartiest beans from the crop and put them up to plant the next year.
Close-ups of Maltese nature (37)
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Fennel is a familiar plant known in the scientific world as Foeniculum vulgare (bużbież ). In Latin the word foeniculum is the diminutive of fenum meaning “hay” while vulgare means common.
Mexico’s growing legion of narco orphans
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By Catherine Bremer SPECIAL REPORT CIUDAD JUAREZ (Mexico): A forlorn little figure, five-year-old Bryan perches at the door of Irma Casas’ office at a women’s shelter in this murderous border city. He has walked all the way here to tell her, again, that his mother is in a bad way, again. At 23, Bryan’s mother recently became a drug war widow for the second time when her narcotics smuggler …
Seed libraries lend for months
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A look at how “libraries” offer seeds from heirloom plant varieties to members each spring and then encourage them to “return” the seeds from the mature plants in the fall.
Love of hummingbirds brings joy to everyday life
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Legend holds that long ago a young woman named Alida came upon a magnificent hillside waterfall where she encountered a stranger picking fruit from the trees. Taroo was an Indian from an enemy tribe who had been left to fend for himself among the forest.
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