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		<title>Vegetable Gardening for Smarties (not Dummies)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, yes, I know: “for dummies” is just a convenient code that means “for non-experts, in non-technical language,” but if I live to be a million I’ll never understand what’s dumb about wanting that.
 
In Kitchen and Garden has always been In Garden for Kitchen as much as anything else, so there&#8217;s a lot about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eric&#8217;s Pet Plant: Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It must be spring – after a string of posts from the greenhouses, our friend Eric over at Yale is moving outdoors again. But he&#8217;s still in highlight-the-underdog mode. Today&#8217;s pet plant is pretty much the Rodney Dangerfield of conifers.
Granted, Pinus rigida isn&#8217;t usually much to look at, but it is singularly resilient, and perhaps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieland.com/2010/03/erics-pet-plant-pitch-pine-pinus-rigida/</link>
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		<title>Eek of the Week &#8211; the Real Food Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having just used “threat or menace,” albeit jokingly, I don’t suppose I can say the same about the “Real Food Challenge” (reported here) that&#8217;s currently sucking up so much internet ink. In fact, it&#8217;s probably unwise to give the thing any more PR by giving it an Eek.
But I can’t resist, because it&#8217;s such a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieland.com/2010/03/eek-of-the-week-the-real-food-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Seed Starting &#8211; Threat or Menace? (not really)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, fellow food gardeners, have you started your celeriac yet? Surely the artichokes, leeks and onions are growing strongly by now, and you have the flats all set so as soon as you finish reading this you can rush off to plant the broccoli, kohlrabi and spring cabbage.
Uh huh. Maybe someday, but if you’re anything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieland.com/2010/03/seed-starting-threat-or-menace-not-really/</link>
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		<title>After The Snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At least I hope it’s after the snow. Today has been warm right through and sounding like rain, every gutter running, every eve dripping as the compacted layers slowly sink.
Up until a bit more than a week ago, I was in a pro-snow mood. Seemed like everyone else in the Eastern half of the country [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieland.com/2010/03/after-the-snow/</link>
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		<title>Eric&#8217;s Pet Plant: Sweet Orange (Citrus sinensis)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year about this time  I get thinking it would be nice to have a citrus tree in our little greenhouse – a Meyer lemon, perhaps, or a kumquat. Not so much for the fruit, of which we would get not so much, but for the long season of powerfully fragrant blossoms. A mature plant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieland.com/2010/02/erics-pet-plant-sweet-orange-citrus-sinensis/</link>
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		<title>Great Seafood Alert: Maine Shrimp (Pandalus Borealis)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good News! Maine shrimp (Pandalus borealis), is starting to get around. Delicious, affordable, wonder of wonders sustainable, the only thing that has ever been wrong with it is that you pretty much couldn’t get it unless you lived in coastal Maine &#8211; or ate in extremely expensive restaurants.
That’s changing. More and more high end fish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieland.com/2010/02/maine-shrimp-pandalus-borealis/</link>
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		<title>The Way to Blog Brilliantly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The way to blog brilliantly has been being demonstrated for a couple of years now by Margaret Roach, over at A Way to Garden. You wouldn’t necessarily know it from looking at my efforts, but she has been an ongoing inspiration ever since she started.
As the upgrades here continue I keep thinking I’ll find the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieland.com/2010/02/the-way-to-blog-brilliantly/</link>
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		<title>Coyote Talk At Catskill Institute on March 4th</title>
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I&#8217;m happy to tell readers of Bill&#8217;s Coyote Post (and everyone else in the area) about a great opportunity to learn more, right from the muzzles of the top experts:
&#8220;Wile E. Coyote In Your Backyard: What You Should Know About Canis latrans&#8221;
will be presented free and open to the public on Thursday, March 4 at 4:30 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieland.com/2010/02/coyote-talk-at-catskill-institute-on-march-4th/</link>
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		<title>Eek of the Week: Chia Obama</title>
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Spotted before last Christmas, offered in plenty of time for the lucky recipient to have Washington, Lincoln or Obama  - sorry, Texas, no Reagan &#8211;  to be in full greenery by Presidents Day. Still not on the clearance counter, however.
According to wikipedia  &#8220;The Chia Pet was first used on September 8, 1977, and aside from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieland.com/2010/02/eek-of-the-week-chia-obama/</link>
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