Antioch Garden Club hosts its 15th annual walk

The Antioch Garden Club’s 15th annual garden walk on Friday and Saturday features seven privately owned gardens in addition to three village gardens. Proceeds will go to Open Arms Mission food pantry, the club’s horticulture mini-grant program, seasonal decorations for senior housing and maintaining the village gardens.

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Antioch Garden Club hosts its 15th annual walk

Botanic Garden gets OK on vital mission plan

After a decade of quarrels and exhaustive public hearings, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s hard-fought “Vital Mission Plan” won approval yesterday from the Board of Supervisors.

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Botanic Garden gets OK on vital mission plan

Dorchester Park Community Garden is ready to grow

Ty Syperda can’t wait to eat some spinach that he’s grown himself. In the recovery program at Springs Rescue Mission, Syperda will be one of the many beneficiaries of the new Dorchester Park Community Garden

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Dorchester Park Community Garden is ready to grow

Anderson’s Home & Garden Showplace celebrates expansion in Newport News (Daily Press)

Plants remain the core business at the expanded Anderson’s Home & Garden Showplace, and there’s more to see and experience than ever before. A new birding department includes Cole’s squirrel-chasing, Cajun-based songbird seeds

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Toledo homeless garden takes root (The Toledo Blade)

By TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER A small group of Toledo-area businesses started a vegetable garden yesterday next to the Cherry Street Mission, hoping to bring the city’s haves and have-nots together and dispel some myths about homelessness. While nobody expects a carrot here or an ear of sweet corn there to heal a homeless person’s wounds - to relieve them of their constant hunger or reverse …

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Toledo homeless garden takes root (The Toledo Blade)

Cherry St Mission plans new garden (FOX Toledo)

The Cherry Street Mission has begun work on a new vegetable garden.

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Cherry St Mission plans new garden (FOX Toledo)

Theatre reviews: Every One/The Garden/The Hobbit (The Scotsman)

EVERY ONE **** ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, EDINBURGH THE GARDEN **** ORAN MOR, GLASGOW THE HOBBIT ** EDINBURGH FESTIVAL THEATRE

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Theatre reviews: Every One/The Garden/The Hobbit (The Scotsman)

Peace prayer offered at hospital’s healing garden (The Adobe Press)

Local clergy gathered at Arroyo Grande Community Hospital’s Healing Garden last month to pray for peace and healing, culminating the hospital’s celebration of Mission Week.

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Peace prayer offered at hospital’s healing garden (The Adobe Press)

Book Review: The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden by Katherine Swift (Blogcritics.org)

In winter, take solace in a garden love story.

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Book Review: The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden by Katherine Swift (Blogcritics.org)

Mission district garden ownership issue weeded out (The San Francisco Examiner)

Nearly 10 years ago, community members in the Mission district raised $14,000 to pay the property tax and annual fees to save a two-block plot of land that housed the Dearborn Community Garden behind the Mission Police Station.

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Mission district garden ownership issue weeded out (The San Francisco Examiner)

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