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home garden stories: 5 news summaries
OPINION

Michelle, Our National Parks Need You

Only first lady can
stem wilting interest in US' 'attics of history'

Jul 12, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last year, more people visited areas run by the National Parks Service than attended NFL, NBA, MLB, and NASCAR games combined. Still, Timothy Egan writes in the New York Times, the 274 million visits amount to a national crisis. “Our shared outdoor spaces, our attics of history and graveyards... More »

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Michelle Obama • youth • national park • National Park Service • National Parks Conservation Association • home garden


  Plant Your Own Beer Garden 

Even if you don't drink, hop vines can be an attractive garden addition

Jul 2, 09 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sure, anyone can buy a home beer-making kit. But why not go one step further and grow the hops yourself? That’s what Ben Granger, owner of a specialty beer shop, decided to do when he turned to home brewing. “I wanted to know what I was working with,... More »

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beer • plants • gardening • home garden • Jay-ZTV

 Michelle Digs Into 
 White House 
 Garden 

President bans beets from veggie plot

Mar 20, 09 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michelle Obama and kids from a Washington elementary school got their hands dirty today, Newsday reports, breaking ground for a vegetable garden on the White House lawn. The garden, the first on the grounds since World War II, will feature many veggies—but not beets, at the president’s request.... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • vegetables • gardening • fruits and vegetables • home garden • beet

(Newser) - The Obamas are planting a vegetable garden at the White House, the Washington Post reports. And not just any garden—it will have 55 different vegetables, including the one that vexed candidate Obama: arugula. Michelle will break ground tomorrow with local students, and chefs will use its bounty to feed... More »

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Michelle Obama • White House • vegetables • gardening • President Obama • Obama family • home garden

OPINION

Invest in Gardens, Where Yields Make Wall St. Blush 

25-to-1 return includes benefits 'that, literally, money can’t buy,' seed-seller says

Dec 19, 08 3:35 PM CST
(Newser) - With the economic outlook darkening, there’s still one good investment that will help you weather the downturn, George Ball writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: a garden. The “astonishing garden-grown return on investment is not modern-day speculative sleight-of-hand, but real, tangible and fungible,” the chairman of the Burpee... More »

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food • gardening • investment • local produce • seeds • financial crisis • economic downturn • home garden • Burpee

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