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RW&G promotes the Victory Garden revival. More at www.redwhiteandgrew.com. Twitter: @redwhiteandgrew
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Red, White & Grew Roger Doiron gets proper credit. Rock on, Roger.

Source: www.boston.com
YOU HAVE to admit that this gives new meaning to the idea of a "shovel-ready project." There are now 1,100 square feet on the South Lawn of the White House being transformed into a kitchen garden. If Americans follow the first family's lead, the seed pack will become the new stimulus package. ...
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Red, White & Grew It's old-school irrigation. Very cool.

Source: www.sfmga.org
Santa Fe Master Gardener Association set up a demonstration garden to determine the usefulness of ollas (buried unglazed clay pots) as a plant root watering tool.
Deborah
Deborah
I'm hoping once we get the pottery studio set up for Spouse, he'll make some of these...
March 23 at 3:40pm
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Red, White & Grew I love this! And Roger Doiron is quoted in it, along with historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Douglas Brinkley

Source: roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com
Michelle Obama announced that she would be planting a vegetable garden on the South Lawn, and digging began in earnest on Friday.
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Red, White & Grew Join the RW&G Garden Registry...and you might win a free pass to HortMag.com's veggie class http://budurl.com/c8e4

March 20 at 6:34pm
Shannon Mullett-Bowlsby
Shannon Mullett-Bowlsby
Signed up! However, can't take the online course because I'll be at my last Master Gardener class and Jason will be at work. Glad to be registered with you again!!
March 20 at 11:48pm
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Source: budurl.com
On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II.
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Source: blogs.abcnews.com
The Note, authored by ABC News' Rick Klein, covers politics, the White House, Congress, Democrats, Republicans, and all latest political campaigning for the 2012 presidential race. Washington's first and ...
Sarah Parkin
Sarah Parkin
I love this, and I'm definitely going to be incorporating this information into some Farmer's Market articles.
March 18 at 9:11pm
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Red, White & Grew Brilliant! We do need gardens in businesses, corporate sites. Hopefully, biz leaders will take notice!

Source: www.usatoday.com
For St. Patrick's Day, I typically write a column advising small businesses about how to be more environmentally sustainable in other words how they can, ahem, go green.
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Red, White & Grew is pleased to announce Joe Lamp'l will answer questions via Twitter as part of #twitter4vg Tuesday! http://budurl.com/3cdc

March 12 at 12:20pm
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Red, White & Grew More about Maryland's fantastic "Grow It Eat It" initiative. Please read!

Source: www.growit.umd.edu
vegetable, garden, gardening, planting, beginning garden, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, salad table, salad boxes
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Word is that the salad table is going to receive coverage via Martha Stewart show soon.
March 11 at 2:58pm
Shannon Mullett-Bowlsby
Shannon Mullett-Bowlsby
Martha??? *faint*
March 11 at 7:06pm
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Source: www.gazette.net
Members of the Maryland Master Gardener program and the Home and Garden Information Center hope a new collaboration will help residents maintain successful food gardens to help improve their health and save money.
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Source: www.hortmag.com
The notion of reviving the old Victory Garden concept has been gaining traction online and in the mainstream media. Here’s why it’s a good idea, and how to get started in your own backyard.”>
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Red, White & Grew Great idea! I hope we see more grassroots initiatives promoted here on Facebook. And remember: we'll be talking about how YOU can get started seeding the Victory Garden movement in your yard and community this week. Check out #twitter4vg Tuesday:

http://www.redwhiteandgrewblog.com/2009/03/horticulture-magazine-to-sponsor.html

We are liberating spaces for the growing of vegetables and other plants. We work in DC and especially on Capitol Hill. Please feel free to join us (even if you don't live anywhere near DC)! Victory G...
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Red, White & Grew This was shot on March 8.

Note that I misspoke near the end: insects are pollinators--NOT flowers. Flowers attract pollinators. Mea culpa.

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Okay, so this took forever to load. But here it is.

Oh, and I made goof. For the record--and as every gardener knows, pollinators are the insects, not the plants. Flowers attract pollinators. (Hey, it was early in the day.)
March 8 at 2:07pm
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Oh, and yes...I know that I emit weird noises at the end of my phrases. I do that IRL, too.
March 8 at 4:58pm
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Red, White & Grew I loved Richard Louv's book "Last Child in the Woods" and this is HIS group. Check it out!

Source: www.childrenandnature.org
The Children & Nature Network (C&NN) is a national network of regional efforts. C&NN supports and accelerates the growth of a children and nature movement, some call it Leave No Child Inside, providing a forum for collaboration and reversing the trends of nature deficit disorder.
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Red, White & Grew Thanks to Rose for the tip! =)

Source: lifelab.org
Video contest sponsors Peaceful Valley Farm Supply - the best organic garden supply company aroundRenee's Garden Seed - great seeds and great informationVespro - offering affordable recycled plastic compost ...
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This is a video contest for which contestants share how their gardens help them "grow."
March 6 at 3:42pm