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The Flower Drying Game - Part 2: Sand or Glycerin?
Part 1 in this 3-part series, Air, Sand, and Sources, detailed the basics of air drying and spoke briefly about drying more delicate flower specimens in clean, fine sand or a specialized material called silica gel. If you...

Preserving Fresh Flowers
The practice of preserving flowers has been around since colonial times. Flowers can be preserved in different ways such as air drying and pressing, or using various drying agents such as sand, homemade mixtures or silica...

Pest Control - Adventures with Small Animal Traps
For those of us who garden and live in the suburbs, which means where small animals live as well, keeping unprotected plants (especially vegetables) from being eaten can be a real challenge. There are few things more painful...

Barefoot at the Cottage
One of the greatest private joys in cottage life is the ability to walk barefoot throughout your property. Whether our happy-feet are skimming across sun-baked stones along the shoreline or across the mossy velvet of our...