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Volunteer! It's Good for Your Health!
Most of us try to find the time to exercise, eat right, and get enough sleep because we know that's all part of a healthy lifestyle. What you may be surprised to know is that volunteering can play a significant role in your well-being.
Everyone is so busy today that it can be hard to find the time to volunteer, but volunteering has surprising benefits for your ...
Extreme Gardens - An Occasional Series
I have had occasion to write elsewhere about the two gardening extremes, which I refer to as BF and SF. BF stands for brute force, and refers to a garden that achieves its goals by the application of much labor and many resources. SF stands for survival of the fittest, where the garden is established with varying degrees of design and intention, and then allowed to go its own way. Most of our gardens fall somewhere in the middle of this spectrum, but this past summer, I was lucky enough to vi...
We Are a Monarch Waystation
Yes, we are! A "Monarch Waystation" that is. After researching about the Monarch Waystation program, I discovered that we already had a designated ID #, which means we have been a waystation for quite some time. We are station #194 on the www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/ monarch map. Annually we have seen the monarch and her eggs and the caterpillar on our milkweed plants.
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