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Garden Guru: For holiday gifting, think local and homemade foods

Now that we are in the season of giving, what do you give the person who has everything? Or how about someone you know little about? Or the host or hostess who has invited you to a celebration? I'm a...

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WV Farm 2 Fork: Farm to Christmas Table

By By Allen Arnold WV Farm 2 Fork Team At our house, as I expect at yours, all of the Thanksgiving leftovers, after having re-emerged for numerous meals in various disguises, have either been eaten,...

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Garden Guru: Keep a few things in mind when you pick out your Christmas Tree

'Tis the season to deck the halls and trim the tree.Tree sellers are popping up in local markets and parking lots, and many folks are picking out the perfect Christmas tree. Last year 26 million real...

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Garden Guru: Extension Service calendars offer knowledge, recipes for new year

Amid the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, and my work preparing my year-end review reports, something very special happens in my office. At some point in December, case upon case is delivered...

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Garden Guru: Give the Gift of Gardening

The clock is ticking down the days, hours, and minutes to the celebration of Christmas. Hanukkah has come and gone. Kwanzaa will make an appearance, as well as the Solstice, Yule, and Saturnalia. And...

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Garden Guru: Balancing technology and environment in the garden

By By John Porter For The Gazette-Mail As we say farewell to 2015 and greet 2016 with open arms, let's take a moment to look at what is happening in the garden world. Every year, a company called the...

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Garden Guru: Dealing with the changing weather

Temperamental and unpredictable - two good words to describe the weather this winter thanks to El Niño.While the term El Niño (meaning The Child) may have come about as reference to this weather...

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WV Farm 2 Fork Team: A winter food fest and cook-off

By By Allen Arnold WV Farm 2 Fork Team Charleston's Marriott Town Center will be the site for a Farm2Fork weekend Feb. 5 and 6 with the West Virginia Winter Food Festival and Cast Iron Cook-Off. A...

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Garden Guru: Houseplants improve health and well being

Just about everyone can remember his or her grandmother having a windowsill full of plants - African violets in the kitchen window, common houseplants crowded together in front of a south-facing...

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Farm2Fork: A new kitchen for fresh produce and more

By By Shelly Keeney WV Farm2Fork Team As market manager of a year-round indoor farmers market, it amazes me to see how many farmers are now venturing out from the norm to provide customers with new...

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Garden Guru: The new trend in environmentally friendly gardening

For centuries, many gardeners and farmers have worked under the theory that nature is something to be tamed or controlled. Humans have bent the natural world to our will. We select which plants we...

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Garden Guru: Gardening for man's best friend

We love our pets. Surveys indicate that around 65 percent of American households have pets. In 2015, Americans spent an estimated $61 billion on their pets. By category, it is second only to Christmas...

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Garden Guru: The dawning of the digital age of gardening

I look at my phone. The screen says "Need Watered" in an angry red text. No, my phone isn't demanding a drink of water (which would not mix well with its electrical components), nor is it some online...

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Garden Guru: Getting ready for springtime planting

By By John Porter For the Gazette-Mail So we made it through "Snowpocalypse" and have continued our pattern of wild and wacky weather swings. Who knows when spring will actually arrive, but I know I'm...

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Garden Guru: What to know for National Invasive Species Week

There seems to be a day, a week or a month to celebrate everything, from pie to ice cream, and from friends to presidents. Now more visible than ever thanks to social media, different groups use these...

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Garden Guru: Why sing the blues when you can plant them?

Blueberries are popular. Next time you are at the grocery store, look in the cart of someone who is a millennial (in their 20s or early 30s); more often than not, there will be blueberries in there....

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Read labels to know what you're planting

By By WVU Extension Service, Kanawha County As winter moves along, and spring gardening materials begin to fill shelves, you may have seen seed packets marked non-GMO. That distinction might sound...

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Garden Guru: Take a leap, plant something new

The garden catalogs are filling mailboxes, seed racks at the garden center are festooned with bright, colorful packets and many gardeners are planning and dreaming of the garden year ahead. These are...

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Garden Guru: Keep your finger on the pulse

The year 2016 has been designated as the international year of the pulse by the UN General Assembly. Just what on earth are pulses? You probably eat them often without knowing what they are called....

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Garden Guru: Prepare to spring forward in the garden

This weekend we celebrated that time-honored tradition that most of us hate: changing the clock. For me the change usually takes a few days to get used to - I'm particularly sensitive to light levels...

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