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	<title>The Chef Maven  - Slow Food Recipes from Cooking Artist Leah Quinn</title>
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		<title>Vegan Organic Gardening &#8211; Yes it really exists&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, yes, Virginia - there are chemical compounds made from coal-tar derivatives to enhance color - and they call them artificial coloring - even your food for Fifi can have them. Did you also know that these artificial colors can be linked to allergic reactions, fatigue, asthma, skin rashes, hyperactivity and headaches. Learn more of the other bad and naughty things found in our processed foods over at sheerbalance.com http://www.sheerbalance.com/nutrition/worst-ingredients-of-processed-foods/.

So getting back to vegan gardening techniques - basically no poop - ok manure if you wish to call it what it really is, is used. I compost my plant debris and leaves which does a lovely organic cocktail perfect for my gardening needs. Now I don't live on acres of land at all, in fact my gardens are located on a half acre, but that is surely more than enough to keep me busy.

What's wrong with manure? Nothing normally - but the idea is this. If you don't know where your manure comes from, and I am not talking about the horse, the cow or the chickens... but more specifically what they ate to create the said manure - therein lies the issue of good manure vs. bad manure. Now don't you all farmers get into a stitch about what I just said. But my thinking is similar to Ron Kholsa's who points out in his interview, "...high-nitrate chicken manure, which turns into nitrous oxide...is 300 times more potent of a global warming gas then carbon dioxide."]]></description>
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		<title>Easter Dinners and Leftover Holiday Meal Ideas</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was able to grab fresh mozzarella that had been shaped into the body of a rabbit - a lovely funny take of the chocolate bunny. It has two pepper corns for its eyes and stands roughly five inches tall. I will be serving it along with a dipping dish full of homemade pesto to represent the grass that a rabbit might lay in. I wonder who will slice off its ears and dip it into the pesto first? ]]></description>
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		<title>Raised Vegetable Gardening Container Constructed &#8211; Knowing When to Call in The Pros</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not only did the people I hired support 'local' businesses like I do myself - the mom and pop shops for mindful spending, but their work ethics, affordability and professionalism outweighed what I initially experienced when I first moved into this home and hired the wrong contractors to do some fixing up around the home. So yes, I could have bought the materials all myself, but the longer than anticipated time and over-extended effort it would have taken me would have far outweighed the success I would experience so quickly had I not delegated this task of constructing my raised vegetable garden container to a pro contractor. ]]></description>
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