Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: What’s Growing in Your Backyard?
THINGS ARE SPROUTING every minute out there in your yard, so it’s time to get out there and get to
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My Feline- and Nature-themed Stuff at “The Outlet Barn”
So who would think a drafty old unheated honest-to-God barn from a long-time farm would be a hot spot for
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Sweet and Sour in Summer, Poison Ivy!
Itch. Itch. Scratch scratch. Scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch DIG DIG—aaaggghhh! No, it’s not your cat or dog, it’s you!
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Begin in Spring to Control Fleas
FLEAS, LIKE MOST OTHER INSECTS, live everywhere around us and it’s how we manage our surroundings that helps to control
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From the Archives: The Old Man in the Garden, 2006
My “old man”, Stanley, at the age of about 24, enjoying the warm bricks and sun in the garden on
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In the Language of Flowers
As Mimi and I have spent time in the yard we’ve also spent some time in the area I have
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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: An Introduction
THIS IS THE first in a series of articles on building your backyard wildlife habitat and explains just what this
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Living Green With Pets: Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Pumpkin!
October is the month for pumpkins! Get some fresh organic pumpkins now to process for your pets, snacks for yourself,
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Daily Photo Reprise: How Long Did I Sleep?! 2011
Wait a minute, I’m covered with leaves! I thought it was still summer! How long did I sleep?! And I’m
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In the Kitchen With Cookie: A Cookie in Every Pot
This pot being a one-gallon pot, I now know that Cookie’s total volume is just about one gallon of tortoiseshell
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