Horticulture More Than A Hobby
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Gardening is often listed as America's favorite hobby, but it's much more than. that. . Community gardening improves dietary .
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Growing five-a-day. Only 20 percent of the U.S. population eats the recommended five servings daily of fruits and vegetables. Community gardening improves dietaryquality and helps participants use their own resources to meet part of their foodneeds. The California Extension’s Berkley and Los Angeles community gardensprovide fresh, healthful produce to low-income residents who otherwise might bechallenged by cost and transportation to add fresh fruits and vegetables to theirdiets. The gardeners receive payment from the Women Infants and Childrenprogram (WIC) for their produce. Since summer 1994, Illinois urban gardeners’programs have provided fresh vegetables to about 30,500 mothers in WIC. IdahoExtension helped the USDA/Nez Perce Food and Nutrition Services produce ediblesoybeans to improve the nutrition of the 280 families this program’s garden feeds.Vermont’s garden-enhanced nutrition education programs helped 26 low-incomecommunities grow vegetables for 572 youth.
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Organic Gardening
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Although organic gardening is often regarded as an. alternative to gardening with . the basic aims of organic gardening and adopts an. integrated .
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How To Organic Gardening
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Organic gardening means much more than merely growing plants without chemical pesticides. . ORGANIC GARDENING. PAGE 5. would be out of reach for other more .
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Container Gardening
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Many individuals find container gardening to be. advantageous. . Families today are busier than ever and gardening is. time consuming. .
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Fall Vegetable Gardening
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Fall Vegetable Gardening. By Chuck Burgess Information Specialist Home amp Garden . individual crops and other vegetable gardening topics contact the Home amp Garden .
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Gardening Tips for the End of Summer
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Gardening Tips for the End of Summer. By Mary Welch Keesey Ph.D. . September can be a great time to add new plants to your. garden. .
