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Veggie Garden Gets Michigan Couple Into Trouble

By Dan Flynn on July 12, 2011

A city planner in Oak Park, Michigan apparently did not get the memo about gardens being a good thing.

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The Oak Park official wants to put residents Jason and Julie Bass in jail for putting…

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Healthy Soil for Healthy Vegetable Gardens

By Amy Halloran on April 13, 2011

Interest in vegetable gardening is growing, thanks in part to rising food costs, ecological concerns and incidents of foodborne illness related to produce.

Just how many backyards are becoming food gardens is hard to enumerate…

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Finding Lead in Home Garden Raised Beds

By Alexa Nameth on November 26, 2010

It isn’t uncommon for home gardeners in older cities to find a significant amount of lead in their backyard soil, so many build raised beds and bring in freshly composted soil to avoid the problem.…

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Kids, Chefs Harvest Veggies at White House

By Helena Bottemiller on June 8, 2010

After the South Lawn of the White House was stormed by over 500 chefs from 37 states rallying behind First Lady Michelle Obama’s new Chefs Move to Schools initiative, a core group of chefs…
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White House Opens Gardens to Public

By Helena Bottemiller on April 19, 2010

The White House opened its gates to the public last weekend for the annual Spring garden and grounds tour, a tradition begun by First Lady Pat Nixon in 1972.

Thousands of visitors wandered the grounds…

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Food Safety Tips for Your Home Garden

By Helena Bottemiller on August 14, 2009

We usually pay much attention to the big produce outbreaks–the headline grabbing, multistate, everyone-stops-buying-spinach kind of outbreak–but there is always a possibility that pathogens can find their way onto homegrown veggies.  The National Gardening Association…
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Established Canning Standards Ensure Food Safety

By Suzanne Schreck on August 14, 2009

This spring and summer, gardens popped up everywhere:  from empty inner-city lots to downtown rooftops to the White House lawn.  As summer winds down and an overabundance of cucumbers, tomatoes, and other produce threatens to…
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