Amy

Summer Gardening Series: Grow Your Own Root Veggies!

June 22, 2011
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Whenever I’m making a salad, whether it’s a salad to go on the side of a main course, or a meal in itself, I tend to think of it in layers. First comes the bed of the salad, or the greens. Next I add the other vegetables, followed by non-veggie components and topped off with [...]

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Summer Gardening Series: Grow Your Own Salad Greens!

May 19, 2011

There are so many reasons to grow your own vegetables from seed, and having a variety of wonderful salad greens to choose from in your own back yard is one of the main reasons I grow my own. The basis for any decent salad is a handful of decent greens. A pile of white, tasteless [...]

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How to Start Your Own Seedlings

April 19, 2011

I’ve just come from checking on this year’s crop of vegetable seedlings in their early spring home on my laundry room counter top. They’re doing well, but they will soon need to be put into larger pots where their roots will continue to develop. I just love growing my own vegetables for the back yard [...]

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Reasons to Grow Your Own Vegetables from Seed

March 24, 2011

Spring is months away. You’re craving a salad. All you can find at the grocery store are overpriced, tiny heads of iceberg lettuce or mass-produced bagged salads, neither of which are terribly appealing. You begin to dream of fresh, organic, healthy, exotic greens, then dismiss the idea as impossible. Growing your own salads is not [...]

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Fashion Friday: My Favorite Scarf

February 11, 2011

I am not a fashionista, to say the least. I work from home, so I get to wear whatever casual clothing I want while I sit around proofreading and editing. My office is casual, too, so even on the days when I have to travel into the Corporate Land of Cubicles, I can dress in [...]

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Watering My Body: The Glass is Half Full

January 18, 2011

Part of the purpose of writing about my attempt to drink more water is that I want to be accountable for the way I treat my body. I know my body craves water. “Enough with the coffee!” it would say, if it could talk. Lately I’ve been thinking about the food and liquids I put [...]

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