(Feature Impact) Lush greenery can add a sense of calm to many homes and bringing it indoors can help transform nearly any room into a relaxing oasis. Whether you’re a seasoned plant parent or just beginning your indoor gardening journey, this guide can help you get started – and succeed in – growing healthy plants […]
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A Colorful Winter Garden
Winter is here on the North Coast, and with it come cloudy days, bare-branched deciduous trees, and a muting of nature’s hues. But we can still enjoy our gardens and yards throughout the year by making December through February more colorful and interesting with some carefully chosen native plants (and one non-plant). While most conifers […]
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Winter Gardening, Better Late Than Never
Before fall descends into winter, we vegetable gardeners have to make a decision: whether to put the vegetable garden to bed with a cover crop of crimson clover (or other green manure) until spring, while we cozy up indoors; or to tend a winter garden and have fresh vegetables year-round. A winter vegetable garden is […]
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Plant a Cabbage, Welcome the Amphibians
In our last article (“Gardening Undercover,” March 13), we suggested ways to protect your vegetable garden from slugs, snails and other pests by using physical shelters. There are other great ways to control pests, like inviting amphibians into your garden. After all, frogs and their kin live and hunt on the ground where most pests […]
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Gardening Undercover
Despite the early morning temperatures in the middle 20s, I made a visit to the winter garden during a lull between rainstorms. Because of the cold and the rain, much of the vegetable garden is muddy and even the winter-hardy cole crops look mushy. But this is the perfect time to check on the garden […]
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Lab Letdown, Health Disparities and Eating/Weeding Veggies
For our annual Health and Wellness issue, we’re diving into why vital outpatient lab services are leaving. We’re also looking at how Humboldt stacks up against the rest of the state in terms of health, and why, as well as efforts to combat suicide in our county. Finally, we’ll look at gardening for health, a […]
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Burgers, Backpacks, Media and Weekend Recs
Grab some napkins — it’s NCJ Burger Week! And speaking of food, local nonprofit Food for People is calling for your help feeding kids in need. We’re also looking at why a local arrest blew up on right-wing media outlets. Finally, pick up some tips on local art and music shows this week, and what […]
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NCJ Preview: Women in Policing, Fall Food and More
This week we’ve got a profile of Cpl. Crystal Landry of the Rio Dell Police Department and the recruitment effort to get more women in local policing. And since it’s officially fall, we’ve got seasonal garden clean-up advice and a dumpling recipe for young green pumpkins. Finally, we’ve got a little satire about reproductive freedom […]
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Humboldt Botanical Garden Presents Online Plant Sale
“I have too many plants,” said no gardener ever. There’s always room for more. And now the prettiest garden of all is having an online plant sale where you can pick up plenty. The Humboldt Botanical Garden Plant Sale gets underway online April 25-May 8, offering an array of blooming flowers and native plants. Take note, […]
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RCAA Plant and Seed Exchange
Although a bit windy, these spring days have been fine. Gardeners are in their yards pushing bulbs and seeds into the ground coaxing the colors of spring. Need an inexpensive source for your seeds and starts? Want to help others make their gardens grow? Stop by the Plant and Seed Exchange on Saturday, April 3 […]
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Cooperation Humboldt Plants Fruit Trees for Everyone
Cooperation Humboldt’s mission to make food more available to all is steadily growing, with the local nonprofit planting an additional 130 fruit trees throughout the county this year. “We believe that nutritious food is a fundamental human right, and our projects aim to put that belief into practice in very tangible ways,” said Tamara McFarland, […]
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A Sanctuary Garden
Tomorrow at 1:30 p.m., Centro del Pueblo and Cooperation Humboldt will be holding a ceremony to consecrate the Arcata Community Health and Wellness Garden (11th and F streets) as a sanctuary for all people. The ceremony will feature music, food for those experiencing food insecurity, a land acknowledgement and the “ceremonial planting of seeds important […]