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Connecticut Garden Journal: While winter roars outside, grow lion’s mane and oyster mushrooms insideWant easy access to gourmet mushrooms? Grow them indoors with mushroom kits. There are now oyster, lion's mane, wine cap and shiitake mushroom-growing kits you can buy online.
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What makes an olive oil extra-virgin? This week on Seasoned, a conversation with an olive oil somm. Plus, a local org uses Palestinian olive oil to fund education and we learn about the importance of olive trees and oil in Palestinian cuisine. Plus, chef JJ Johnson’s ‘The Simple Art of Rice.’
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Drumroll please. . .after researching the new catalogues and websites of a few of my favorite national seed companies, I have compiled my 2024 list of new vegetables to grow. Here we go!
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January is time to go through all my old seeds, see what I need to replace and try some new varieties. This year let's keep our seed purchases local. There are vegetable and flower seed houses based in Connecticut offering a nice variety of seed to purchase. I'll share a few.
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Cold winters are key to curbing an invasive pest that’s depleted Eastern hemlock trees for decades in Connecticut. Warm winters, fueled in part by climate change, allow these insects to spread - but a deep cold snap in 2023 slowed their advance.
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So you decorated the house with gorgeous poinsettias or you were gifted a festive Christmas cactus or amaryllis. The holidays are over. Now what?
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This hour, we explore issues around equity, race and the environment. We talk to Leah Penniman, whose new book is 'Black Earth Wisdom,' and Dr. Dorceta Taylor of the Yale School of the Environment.
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Ecological or regenerative gardening focuses on the whole yard, including the soil, to create a habitat that's good for birds, wildlife and humans.
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The report explores how climate change has, for dozens of species, disrupted ecosystems, changed where whales go, led to a decline in reproduction, and even an increase in inter-species aggression.
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Containers make it easy to plant a live Christmas tree in your yard once the holidays are over. It's a great tradition where you can grow a forest of holiday trees over time.
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The USDA Hardiness zone map was last updated in 2012 and now they have a new 2023 version. As you might expect with global warming, the hardiness zones have shifted.
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Off the coast of eastern Long Island, an 800-foot tall turbine has begun sending electricity onto the U.S. grid from what’s set to be the country’s first commercial offshore wind farm.