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  • Central Florida Kitchen Gardeners

    3 members Latest Activity: May 13 Promote kitchen gardening, local produce.

  • Connecticut Organic Gardeners

    4 members Latest Activity: Oct 18 Just didn't see one so here it is.. Basically Growing our own foods naturally. Permaculture, forest gardening, organoponics, vermiculture, biointensiv…

  • Identifying plant diseases

    16 members Latest Activity: Oct 7 A place to post photos of diseases that need to be identified.

  • Berry Growers

    31 members Latest Activity: Nov 11 My kitchen wouldn't be complete without fresh fruit. The focus of this group will be berrries! What do you grow? Do you have favorite varieties? H…

  • Wild Edible Hunters

    34 members Latest Activity: Nov 21 DIscussion group for people who hunt wild edibles.

  • Georgia Gardeners

    15 members Latest Activity: Nov 10 This group is for folks who live and garden in Georgia. Let's talk about issues that are specific to our state, like the drought, clay soil, extreme h…

  • Tomatoes

    57 members Latest Activity: 1 day 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…

  • Vermiculture

    53 members Latest Activity: Nov 1 It's about time to discuss it! Especially since a lot of people don't understand it.

  • Permaculture

    50 members Latest Activity: Nov 16 Permaculture design is a system of ... components in a pattern which functions to benefit life in all its forms.

  • 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…

  • New England in the Raw

    2 members Latest Activity: Jun 19 Promoting joyous inspiration for organic home and community gardens ... localvore ... vegan/raw ... and awakening to kindness and compassion for All.

  • Aromatic Plants

    1 member Latest Activity: Aug 15

  • Hydroponics Gardeners

    5 members Latest Activity: Oct 26 Growing plants without soil Organic or not, it's your choice saves 90% water and fertilizer Easy Low cost No weeds No soil pesticides, disease,…

  • Roanoke Kitchen Gardeners

    2 members Latest Activity: Sep 3 Promoting kitchen gardening, home-cooking, Food preservation and sustainable local food systems in Roanoke, Virginia

  • North Atlanta Seedsavers

    12 members Latest Activity: 4 hours ago For organic vegetable gardeners (and those who want to start gardens!) in North Atlanta who want to save and share heirloom, organic seeds

  • Kitchen garden communicators group

    59 members Latest Activity: Nov 20 Do you write/blog/speak/make films or photos about food, gardening, and/or sustainable lifestyle issues? Welcome: this is your place!

  • Gardening General

    50 members Latest Activity: Nov 18 Just plain no matter where you live share you gardening stories, give advice, just a general site for gardeners to communicate.

  • Ontario Gardeners

    17 members Latest Activity: 1 day ago Members should live in Canada or close to the Canadian border and be intetrested in vegetable gardeninng.

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Thanks, Kate, for posting what you've saved! How did the seed saving for everyone else go this year? I saved seeds from several herbs that aren't ---I don't think--- heirloom varieties (fennel, dill, basil, flat-leaf parsley, cilantro) and some z...
4 hours ago
Amanda Williams and Mary Riekert are now friends
7 hours ago
Helen Pereira and Maggie are now friends
10 hours ago
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Roger added 5 photos to the album 'KGI Meet-up 2009'
10 hours ago
Stephanie is now a member of Kitchen Gardeners
12 hours ago
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.
13 hours 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 ...
16 hours ago
GREAT SUMITRA! THERE WAS ALSO THIS LADY FROM NEPAL, CALLED TIGER PRINCESS.so Nepal has great women.
17 hours ago
Sumitra Pande added 2 photos
18 hours ago
Thanks Raul, gardening gives me pleasure as well as fresh vegetables as well, and off course an family tie!
19 hours ago
Sumitra Pande added 4 photos to the album 'My Garden at Kathmandu'
19 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.
22 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...
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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.
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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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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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