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Kathryn

Kathryn's Groups (14)

  • Roof-top Kitchen Gardners

    5 members Latest Activity: Nov 16 In the urbanized world today, green roof-tops give material benefits like organic produce, save from excessive summer heat and improve the environment…

  • The Recycle Bin

    45 members Latest Activity: Oct 20 Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! It's the new mantra. What are you doing, and how are you doing it, especially in your garden! Do post pictures!

  • Recipe Exchange

    69 members Latest Activity: Nov 16 This is so silly. I just realized we have this KITCHEN Gardeners International group and we have no category with the things we DO with this food, ho…

  • Preserving the Harvest

    81 members Latest Activity: Nov 19 We will focus this group on different methods of preservation. Canning, drying and freezing are common, but do you preserve your harvest by some othe…

  • Pickling and Kimchi Club

    37 members Latest Activity: Nov 15 All things to do with preserving vegetables using a brining process or fermentation.

  • The Farmer's Market

    26 members Latest Activity: Sep 7 Most of us shop at farmers' markets and/or sell our produce there. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about where the markets are, the best and the wors…

  • Root Cellars and Food Storage

    58 members Latest Activity: Nov 16 For those who have root cellars, want root cellars, and want to know more about root cellars; and for those who want to know the various methods in wh…

  • Native American Heritage Group

    29 members Latest Activity: Oct 26 For those who share a Native American heritage by blood, and those with a spiritual kinship to the original people of the US, who wish to explore that…

  • Home Cheese Making

    40 members Latest Activity: Oct 21 A discussion of Cheese Making, Recipes, techniques, animals, whatever people want to talk about in terms of this wonderful food.

  • Garden Lovers Book Reviews

    38 members Latest Activity: Nov 5 Have a favorite book about gardening that you would love to share with other members? Can be non-fiction or fiction, even a childrens book would be fi…

  • Gardening in Australia

    54 members Latest Activity: Nov 20 Australia's climate varies from tropical to cool mountain. This group will discuss kitchen gardening in the variety of climates and conditions found i…

  • Backyard Kitchen Herbalists

    131 members Latest Activity: Nov 8 I would like this group to focus on kitchen herb gardens, be they culinary or medicinal. What do you grow, what do you use it for, do you make any med…

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Hello Sumitra, Thankyou for sharing your pictures. Your students are beautiful. I thought of you the other day as I watched a documentary about Nepal on the television.
1 hour ago
Hi Sumitra, It is great to see your photos and bee hives. Like you I long for equality for all people on this planet. If all people could grow their own vegetables it would be a great thing. It is very hard to know that lots of people do not have ...
4 hours ago
GREAT SUMITRA! THERE WAS ALSO THIS LADY FROM NEPAL, CALLED TIGER PRINCESS.so Nepal has great women.
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Sumitra Pande added 2 photos
6 hours ago
Thanks Raul, gardening gives me pleasure as well as fresh vegetables as well, and off course an family tie!
6 hours ago
Sumitra Pande added 4 photos to the album 'My Garden at Kathmandu'
7 hours ago
Thats great Everret! So lovingly composed that I felt the warmth of that old rickety stove around me after so many years and away so many miles.
9 hours ago
lovely memories Everett, thanks for sharing.
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Everett McDonald added a blog post
My father-in-law Fred Pond died ten years ago. He loved his garden and I still miss him a lot especially at this time of year when the seed catalogues start arriving. The Pond family lived on a seven acre homestead of sorts in Westford Massachuset...
13 hours ago
I think this might need it's own category, don't you? Tomatoes are one of the most popular things to grow and we've been placing them in all kinds of groups, but the fact is we almost all grow them, and they have specific needs.
13 hours ago
The cooking shows are entertaining, but that's all. Some of my favorite recipes started with notes handed down from family. They're still as good as ever. James Beard, Joy of cooking, and Professional Chefs Manural are good references. I have over...
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Greetings everyone :D Sice we've been having such odd weather this year, I decided to try getting my garlic in the ground this past weekend. Now I hope that it'll all grow nicely.
18 hours ago
Amanda Williams and Maggie are now friends
19 hours ago
Donald you lucky to live in an area where you can start a new hive at any time during the year! In New York one could never start a new package in December! =8-o We'd love to see pix of your current hive. :)
21 hours ago
marion stewart added a blog post
Red osier dogwood is just the best plant for this time of year – cut down some branches – you can find them in fields and ditches and then place them in garden pots or containers. Fill the over-season containers with soil to hold the stems. Attach...
21 hours ago
Hi Everyone: I am new to kitchen gardeners and I currently have one bee hive and I am planning on buying one four pound package of bees and a queen in December. If my luck is strong I will also capture a swarm and end up with three total hives goi...
21 hours ago

Notes

HOW TO - ADD A LINK

Several people have experienced difficulty putting working links into comments and blogs etc and I know it is clumsy.... so here is how you do it.....

First type the text you want to appear....  ie  IAN'S PAGE

Then go back and highlight the link text.

Then hit the hyperlink button...a pictogram of a chain link.

Your browser may intervene and request permission to allow temporary scripting or some similar message.   Allow it and go back and highlight the text again

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Created by Ian Jun 7, 2009 at 7:28pm. Last updated by Ian Jun 8.

Forum Policy

Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.

I would be happy to hear any comments you may have.  This is very much a work in progress so plese feel free to ask me to add anything you think is needed.

I don't want to make our community hide bound by rules and regulations but I think that, as the community has grown, some explanation of what is expected is needed.

Administration

You can refer any que

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Created by Ian May 23, 2009 at 1:55am. Last updated by Ian May 25.

Climate maps

Hi following recent discussion I have put climate maps of the USA, Australia and Europe on here for reference..

 Climate map of the USA

Climate map of Australia

Climate map of Europe

 

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Created by Ian Sep 12, 2008 at 6:20pm. Last updated by Ian Apr 14.

Recipes, Recipes, Recipes

Hi Everyone,  I've started to collect together recipes from various posts on the site and put them all together here.

If you have a recipe you want to add on here, just post it on the site and leave a comment on my page telling me where it is and I'll go and fetch it back here.

They are organised in Contributor Order but I'm open to better suggestions!

BEVA'S RECIPES

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Created by Ian Jun 2, 2008 at 9:54am. Last updated by Ian Apr 13.

US STATES ABBREVIATIONS

 

US STATE ABBREVIATIONS

AK - Alaska               AL - Alabama              AR - Arkansas
AZ - Arizona              CA - California           CO - Colorado
CT - Connecticut          DC - Dist of Columbia *   DE - Delaware
FL - Florida              GA - Georgia              GU

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Created by Ian Jan 27, 2009 at 4:27pm. Last updated by Ian Jan 27.

HOW TO - MAKE COMPOST

Recently there was an excellent discussion about composting. I’ve pulled together all the various comments here. You can also watch KGI's video on composting here.

 

 

KATE’S ADVICE

I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but

1 you have to fill it up all at once

2. it seemed mostly

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Created by Ian May 30, 2008 at 5:29am. Last updated by Roger Jan 15.

Notes Home

Welcome to Notes.

To view notes that are in the system hit the "all notes" button above.

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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 12:10pm. Last updated by Ian May. 30, 2008.

A Note about Notes

I have just written this note so that I can see what we can achieve by using this new feature.

If you read this and have any suggestions then please leave a comment on my page or email me.

Ian

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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 6:19pm. Last updated by Ian May. 28, 2008.

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