Tuesday Greens

Rodale and More

May 21, 2013

We toured Rodale Institute, Eckerton Hill Farm and Glick’s Greenhouse. A few days ago, I had the pleasure of meeting up with two friends, Barb from A Life in Balance and Frugal Local Kitchen, and Lauryn, from The Vintage Mom, and their kids and take some great farm tours in the Oley and Kutztown, PA […]

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Locavores at Philly Farm & Food Fest

April 23, 2013

How do you discover new foods and food sources if you are a locavore? You head to a Farm & Food Fest, the Philly Farm & Food Fest to be specific. On Sunday, April 14th, I had the pleasure of attending the 2nd annual Philly Farm & Food Fest. I went last year for the […]

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Earth Day Network

March 26, 2013

This week I am introducing you to the Earth Day Network and The Face of Climate Change. It’s continuing to snow here in the Philly area even though I’d love to think that spring is nigh. Every time that I think I am getting outside to rake leaves and add new soil, Mother Nature seems […]

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Philadelphia Flower Show

March 12, 2013

It’s has been an amazing week with the Philadelphia Flower Show being so close by. The spring breezes today and the inspiration from the Philadelphia Flower Show are making this gardener double check when the last frost might be. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society presented the show with a theme of Brilliant! this year. It was a British theme […]

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Longwood Gardens Orchid Extravaganza

March 5, 2013

I am excited to share some photos that I took at Longwood Gardens this weekend during the Longwood Gardens Orchid Extravaganza. As a Star Blogger for them, I am loving the opportunity to see the gardens during every season. Winter is especially gorgeous in the conservatory with the Orchid Extravaganza. The colors and textures were […]

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Seed Catalogs

February 12, 2013

Last week, I spoke about laying out my garden and today, I am thinking about what to grow and what varieties I would like to grow this year. I am excited to begin perusing the catalogs and looking online. I anticipate using heirlooms again this year and I have some great organic seed companies from […]

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Longview Locavores

January 29, 2013

As we are heading towards February this week, I wanted to let you know some more about the Longview Center of Agriculture’s Locavore Challenge. Longview is located in Collegeville, PA and has 120 acres of organically and sustainably farmed land. They are a section of Greener Partners and they produce food in all 4 seasons. […]

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Tuesday Greens #17: Made My Own Bread!!

January 22, 2013

Last week, I set a 2013 goal to actually use my breadmaker and yogurt maker that we received at our wedding 6 years ago. They had sat dormant for a long time, but this past Saturday, we fired up the Cuisinart Breadmaker and made our first loaf of bread. I had a bunch of ingredients […]

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Making Bread and Yogurt

January 15, 2013

How’s everyone doing with their “going greener” resolutions this year? Still sticking to the goals you set or the checklist you would like to go through? This week, I cleaned out our pantries a bit and reexamined some of the small appliances we have and how I could be using them to be greener in […]

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Composting Resolutions

January 8, 2013

I am continuing to set some gardening goals/resolutions for 2013 and next up is composting. We ordered and assembled a tumbling composter several years ago, which is similar to this one from Amazon. For the most part, we were good about keep it going and making compost. Then, Tomato arrived and it fell out of […]

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