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Controversy, too, is harvest of White House garden
It was while she was serving dinner to her kids in 2008 and their dad was out campaigning for president, that Michelle Obama hatched a modest daydream: a vegetable garden on the White House grounds.
She'd recently had a conversation with her children's...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Obesity, Physiology, Diabetes, Zucchini
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Sparrows Point owner considers selling plant
The struggling Sparrows Point steel mill could be sold within the next six months, mill owner RG Steel said Monday.
"We're not going to be specific at this time," said Bette Kovach, an RG Steel spokeswoman, as she confirmed comments by two company...Tags: Iron and Steel, U.S. Department of Justice, Emergency Incidents, Dofasco Incorporated, Metal and Mineral
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Laurel community garden planned for 2013 growing season
City officials, local Master Gardeners and community gardening enthusiasts are planning a community garden for Laurel, set to open for the spring 2013 planting season. "We're trying to change the whole relationship with food," said Dawn Williams, a...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Hobbies, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Lutherville: LTRC ballet program set to dance to Mount Olympus
Where can you see Muses and Sirens cavorting with the Fates and Graces? Where else, but Mount Olympus. These characters from Greek Mythology take the stage at the "Ballet From Mount Olympus," which will be presented by the dancers in the Lutherville-...Tags: Music, Dance, Hobbies, Timonium, Entertainment Events
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Green masterpieces: A peek inside your neighbors' garden oases
They’re neighborhood showpieces, serene retreats, abundant providers, and a joy to the senses. A well-tended and purposefully planned garden can excel in both aesthetics and function. It’s enough to make a neighbor envious, or perhaps just...
Tags: House and Home, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Ellicott City, Shingles, Clarksville
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'Daze' of music and celebration coming to downtown Towson
Flowers, music, food, entertainment, shopping and community spirit are being rolled together for four days in May — dubbed "Towson Spring Daze" by the Towson Chamber of Commerce. Set for Thursday through Sunday, May 3-6, and sponsored by the...
Tags: Marketing, Rock Climbing, Towson Commons, Entertainment Events, Army National Guard
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Family heritage in bloom for 2012 Towson Azalea House winner
The 26th annual Towson Gardens Day will be just plain fun, according to the Towson Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the event Thursday, May 3. The event in the Towson Courthouse area heralds the arrival of spring with plants and flowers, crafts,...
Tags: Roland Park, Thomas Mitchell, Cancer, Awards and Prizes, Ceremonies
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Master Gardeners share a growing passion
What started as an individual endeavor to master a style of gardening she called "a tomato here, a zucchini there," has turned into a passion to promote sustainable horticulture for Donna Koczaja and her husband, Nicolas Tardif. The two earned the...
Tags: Arable Farming, Tomatoes, Hobbies
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Waxing poetic about the benefits of moon-phase gardening
As a child, there was a time when I believed that the moon was made of green cheese. I even got upset and lost interest in the moon when I found out that it was simply a lifeless rock orbiting our planet. But then the gardener in me got interested in...Tags: Weather Reports, Personal Service, Timonium, Hobbies, Cheese
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Huge lemon tree among Ellicott City man's rare plant emporium
There's the 15-foot orange tree with its menacing 11/2-inch-long thorns, a bushy affair that sprouted from small seeds like those most of us just spit out. Nearby is a kiwi plant, its aggressive tendrils snaking vertically up a nearby tree. And then...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Ellicott City, Germany, Lemons, Youngstown State University
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Literacy garden promises bounty of food and books
Gardening held little appeal to Stacey Watkins, a Baltimore special-education teacher, until an organization that helps keep her classroom in books put out a call for help with an urban planting project. She soon found her manicured hands could do wonders...Tags: Vincent de Paul, Libraries, Mount Vernon, Hobbies, Family
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Maryland gardens warm up to tropical trend
Tropicals will be hot this gardening season.
Forgive the pun, but growers and garden centers are responding to a demand from homeowners for the luxurious foliage and lipstick colors of plants more suited to the South.
And they are offering much more...Tags: Energy Saving, Photography and Video, Bee (insect), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bat (animal)
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