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Are you an avid Orchid collector?  Are you itching to have something that none of your Orchid buddies do?  Of course and absolutely!  That something that none of your buddies have is an O...

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Have you ever wondered what you should do with the greeting cards you receive for your birthday or other holiday? You set them on the mantle to display them, and months later they're stil...

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A Parkway North High School science teacher just got an cash influx for a vegetable and herb garden. Emerson, a manufacturing and technology company, awarded Russ Barton and Lorrie Crosse...

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It's a great time to get your pantry organized! Here are my tips. 1. Sort your pantry items into categories. Think about how a grocery store is laid out. Now imagine trying to grocer...

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If you’ve been reading my garden blogs, you might notice that I’m a little crazy about Succulents.  For the past few years the popularity of Succulents has gone through the roof!  They be...

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Leah Thorsen, St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter, contacted the co-organizers of our local backyard chicken meetup list to do an article on keeping chickens.  She chose to interview an...

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Have you heard the saying that if the first thing you do when you wake up each morning is eat a live frog, nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day? Efficiency training exper...

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Have you seen those spider web-like "baskets"  in tree limbs throughout the St. Louis area? Take a close look at the mostly impenetrable web structure and you'll see Eastern Tent Caterpil...