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A Few Tips on Saving Seeds

Like many others, I’d like to cut down on some of my expenses and the idea of saving and swapping seeds from year to year as a way of doing this is appealing. Saving your own seeds increases your self-sufficiency; and they make great gifts!

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Save that Sweet, Sweet Rain… Install a Rain Barrel

Harvesting or collecting rainwater from your property can reduce your use of drinking water for landscape irrigation. Collecting rainwater together with the use of native-adapted plants is an effective water conservation technique because it provides “free” water that is not from the municipal water supply. Some benefits to harvesting rainwater are: reducing dependence on ground [...]

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