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12 Days of Green Holiday Gifts: Butterfly Girl Dolls
I adore these Butterfly Girl Dolls from the Canadian company, Little Humbugs. Each of the cute 12″ plush dolls comes snuggled inside a chrysalis, the way a real butterfly is. It’s a great … more →
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12 Days of Green Holiday Gifts: Butterfly Girl Dolls
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wrote 1 month ago: I adore these Butterfly Girl Dolls from the Canadian company, Little Humbugs. Each of the cute 12 … more →
Slow News Day: Front Yard Gardening in Benicia and Beyond
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wrote 2 months ago: While wandering around the town of Benicia, CA, one late summer day, I encountered this exuberant ex … more →
Happy Six-month Anniversary to Slow Family Online
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wrote 3 months ago: After much contemplation, writing, photographing, observing, and living, Slow Family Online began ex … more →
Mill Valley's Slow Food Eat-In a Bountiful Success
wrote 3 months ago: Slow Food’s national Eat-In day was a huge success. According to the Slow Food Time for Lunch … more →
The hummingbird visitor
wrote 4 months ago: A couple of weeks ago, shortly after planting my new lavender plant a hummingbird came into the deck … more →
garden week 4- the aphids are taking over!
wrote 4 months ago: By late June all was well in the garden but Sean noticed some funky looking dots on the leaves of so … more →
Potted Succulents
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wrote 5 months ago: Potted Succulents I planted four of these big containers about 3 years ago for a law firm on Main St … more →
The flourishing garden- Week 3
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wrote 5 months ago: the same set of tomatoes from last week growing big and strong By late June our deck garden was grow … more →
New Additions- The Garden Week 2
wrote 5 months ago: By mid-June I had the garden up and running. Everything was taking root nicely so I decided to make … more →
You know you are an earth sign when....week one of the garden
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wrote 6 months ago: So yes, let’s get it out there right in the open….I am Taurus so I do love my home which includes my … more →
Fairfax Parade and Ecofest
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wrote 6 months ago: I recently attended the 32nd annual Fairfax (CA) parade and its newer accompanying Ecofest. Both wer … more →
Slow News Day: A Bumper Crop of Gardeners
wrote 7 months ago: Last summer, I noticed a spate of news stories about the rise of home gardening. In July, ‘08, … more →
The Deck Garden: Hope, and Flowers, Spring Eternal
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wrote 7 months ago: What could offer more possibility than a garden in early spring? A couple of weeks ago, after some l … more →
Daffodils: Bunches of Spring Sunshine
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wrote 8 months ago: Daffodils are such cheery spring flowers. I love them in bunches. Like sweet peas and stock, they ha … more →
Tulipmania: One Bubble I Can Really Get Behind
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wrote 9 months ago: I love tulips with the same passion I reserve for pumpkins. Both come in infinite variations. Both s … more →
Fairmount Garden Helpers
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wrote 1 year ago: We have commented in prior posts that life in the city comes with wonderful activities to engage on … more →
Loose Ends: Deck Garden
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wrote 1 year ago: Having yearned for rain, I’m feeling pretty fine that it has rained for days on end, so much s … more →
A Bit of Carnage
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wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday afternoon, I moved my plants to larger containers. It wasn’t pretty. Roots were torn … more →
