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One of Marriotts Ridge High's most-anticipated events is Jukebox, the school's signature fall music revue.

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The flower gardens at the Patuxent Research Refuge North Tract have been sanctioned as a certified monarch butterfly waystation and will be listed in the international Monarch Waystation Registry. Laurel resident Joe DiGiovanni, a Master Gardener, rejuvenated and enhanced the existing butterfly gardens at the visitor contact station, and his efforts were recognized by Monarch Watch, an educational and outreach program at the University of Kansas.

Maryland garden tips

Maryland garden tips

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Maryland garden tips

Rose Marie Fury walked away with 27 ribbons from the Maryland State Fair this year, Beverly and Ted Gross won grand champion in vegetable exhibitor category, Hiss United Methodist Church plans to honor firefighters, police and paramedics

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Earth Starter is having the sort of year start-ups dream of. Its gardening kits, which it calls the paint by numbers of gardening, won a national business contest, was a hit on Kickstarter and now is on sale.

It was a good year for them locally and best practices will help their return next year.

Visiting Nemours and Winterthur

Gov. Martin O'Malley said Thursday Maryland has a "moral obligation" to avert climate change and that the state has been falling short of its ambitious goal to cut greenhouse gases emissions by 25 percent by 2020.

Maryland has taken a leadership role with a comprehensive plan to address climate realities; now others must follow our example

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The city's housing department has awarded exclusive negotiating rights to Baltimore Free Farm, an urban farming group, buy two vacant, city-owned lots that border the group's community garden in Hampden. Baltimore Free Farm beat out a developer who wanted to build housing on the lots.

Avoid injuries from yard work by stretching, hydrating and avoiding common perils.

A significant amount of cross pollination goes on at the new Perry Hall community garden, and it's not limited to the plants.

Rodgers Forge women launch barter farmers market on Murdock Road. Every Saturday, neighbors trade homegrown fruits and vegetables and homemade goods.

At an open house Saturday, June 1, the City of Laurel Community Garden celebrated its successes thus far, and the growth still to come.

Though this year's Earth Day has come and gone, Hillcrest Elementary School is continuing the green movement through both new and old programs

In buying the right house, Stoneleigh residents Phoebe and Richard Letocha got on the right path to winning the best azalea house in Towson award.

It's the time of year when I probably ought to be thinking about gardening, but this year I'm thinking about not gardening.

The return of spring also means the return of fresh produce and organic meats at the downtown Baltimore Farmers' Market.