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Patti Moreno Talks About Soil

by Jacqueline D'Elia on March 10, 2010

Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, talks about building good soil in this video. If you’ve got worms, that is a sure sign that your soil is healthy.


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STORY OF STUFF: UPDATE

by Jacqueline D'Elia on March 9, 2010




Get the whole story…
Annie Leonard managed to fit a whole lot of information in 20 minutes but there’s still so much more! You can read the whole story by picking up a copy of her new book at your local bookstore or by ordering The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change at Amazon. We also encourage you to donate a copy of the book to your local library so that those who can’t purchase the book themselves can still access all the great information in it!

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New Video: Preparing a Raised for Planting

March 8, 2010

New video from Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl on preparing a raised bed. Patti shows you how she cleans up her bed from last fall, and turns the soil. She also adds rabbit manure which she gets from the rabbits she raised. She prefers rabbit manure since it does not need to be composted before [...]

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Veggie Fertilizer Basics Call For Balance

February 18, 2010

Reprint from my post on Boxed Dirt:
Last week at my Urban Harvest’s Organic Vegetable Series class, Dr. Bob Randall shared his thoughts on fertilizers. Now this is a subject I’ve been very interested in. Given the transition I’ve made from synthetic to organic fertilizers over the past decade. Long gone are the days of using [...]

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Cheap Kids Jewelry: Another Reason to Be Careful

January 12, 2010

It seems China can’t go more than a few months without another incident of using toxic materials in the goods they are shipping to the USA. KIDS JEWELRY now!!!!
Read this Store on Yahoo News about Cadmium Jewelry
You get what you pay for and in this case, you may even get more….

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DYI Worm Compost Bin

January 8, 2010

Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, shows you how easy it is to build a worm composting bin. Don’t toss those kitchen scraps, start feeding them to the worms. Kids love watching worms and this is fun project to do with them.

A year later….

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Free Shipping Until December 30

December 26, 2009

Free Shipping Starts Today – Visit our Promo Page for details.

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Olive Barn Outlet Open Today 10-3

December 23, 2009

The Outlet is open today from 10am to 3pm. Take an extra 25% off all clearance items.

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Bloembox Mini Seed Ribbons

December 15, 2009

With Bloembox Seed Ribbons one of our best sellers, we were thrilled when Bloembox introduced a mini version of their bio-degradable seed ribbons.
A set of six, one of each: Cornflower, Delphinium, French Marigold, Lilliput Zinnia, Miniature Rose and Tithonia. A smaller version of the best selling Bloembox Original Seed Ribbons with a fresh new [...]

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Site is Back Up then Down Again

December 6, 2009

Please bear with Yahoo, as they try to resolve their issues. Hopefully Olivebarn.com will be back online very soon.

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