NOVEMBER 17, 2009 - 4:04 PM
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How does Amelia Walsh get her Lewisia cotyledon to bloom so beautifully at this time of year? Fran Durner/ADNTake a moment or a lunch hour today or tomorrow to stop by the Wells Fargo Bank building at the corner of C St and Northern Lights to see the 49th annual Holiday Flower Show sponsored by the Anchorage Garden Club. The lobby is filled with amazing blooming plants, artistically arranged displays and a Christmas tree decorated all in red and white.
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NOVEMBER 15, 2009 - 3:48 PM
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Mike Gilliland, chief executive officer of Sunflower Farmers Market, sits among the vegetables growing in the company's experimental garden in Longmont, Colo. Sunflower is one of the few, if only, grocery stores in the nation to operate its own farm. Photo by Kenneth D. Lyons, The Denver Post via APBy STEVE RAABE / The Denver Post via Associated Press
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NOVEMBER 10, 2009 - 5:14 PM
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Steve Brown and friend. Photo courtesy Steve Brown.November 13, Friday, 8:30am-noon. Gardeners are invited to the Friday morning forum of the Alaska Farm Bureau annual meeting. Presentations include Chicken University, learn to raise chickens in your backyard presented by CES agent Steve Brown, Growing Apples in Alaska presented by grower Dan Elliott and Preserving Your Harvest presented by CES home economist Leslie Shallcross. At the Millennium Hotel in Anchorage. $20 registration or $30 including lunch. You can register online here or contact Jane Hamilton at janehamilton99737@yahoo.com or 907-895-4752.
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OCTOBER 28, 2009 - 2:49 PM
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The first significant snow of the season.
Richard J. Murphy/ADNNovember 1, Sunday, 2pm. Join outdoorsman Dick Griffith for a presentation on his 250-mile trek along the coast from Glacier Bay to Copper River. Points of interest along the way are Lituya Bay and the crossing of LaPerouse Glacier. At the Eagle River Nature Center. Free program; $5 parking for non-members.
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OCTOBER 26, 2009 - 6:12 PM
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Bob Boyer shows the difference between a greenhouse-grown "Prairie Magic" and the same variety of apple grown outside in his orchard. Fran Durner/ADNFor those of you who have been waiting to find out if Bob Boyer would be selling his wonderful greenhouse apples again - he is! Thursday, October 29, from 1 to 5 pm only. I hear it's been the best year yet for apple production. The last time I checked, Boyer was growing about 37 apple trees, nine peach trees, three apricots, two plums and one quince tree inside the greenhouse. His orchard held over 100 fruit trees including apples, cherries and pears. Although he doesn't heat the greenhouse, the trees inside do much better than the trees outside.
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OCTOBER 25, 2009 - 5:39 PM
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A tulip - one of the plants examined in "The Botany of Desire." Photo by Ruth Dundas/PBS
Anyone who has read Michael Pollan's book The Botany of Desire (2001, Random House) is familiar with the stories he tells weaving the adaptation of the apple, tulip, potato and marijuana to man's own evolutional history. The question Pollan asks is, isn't it actually the other way around? "We don't give nearly enough credit to plants," Pollan says during the opening of the two hour PBS adaptation of his book, airing this Wednesday on Channel 7 from 7 - 9 p.m., "They've been working on us, they've been using us, for their own purposes."
"The Botany of Desire," the bestseller book by Michael Pollan.
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OCTOBER 20, 2009 - 10:35 AM
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Verna and Frank Pratt with their award planted in their garden. Fran Durner/ADNThe Anchorage Chapter of the Alaska Master Gardeners gave out their first ever Lifetime Achievement Award to Verna and Frank Pratt on Monday night. The award was a large granite stone, suitable for the garden of course, with an attached plaque that read, "In Recognition of Your Knowledge and Dedication to Teaching Others to Appreciate and Understand the Wildflowers of Alaska.
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OCTOBER 14, 2009 - 11:26 AM
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Fall colors are reaching their peak Outside from coast to coast. I just wanted to share some beautiful photos from the AP wire service with you.
Lyn Walters, 71, fly fishes in the Merrymeeting River in Alton, N.H., as fall leaves begin to change Thursday, Oct. 8,2009. AP Photo/Jim Cole
A couple takes in the view from the ocean lookout ledges on 1375-foot Mount Megunticook, Monday, Oct. 12, 2009, at Camden Hills State Park in Camden, Maine. The state's forest rangers, who have been tracking fall foliage for 50 years, are now using personal data assistants to send in fall foliage reports from the field. Most of the state is reaching peak colors this week. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty
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OCTOBER 12, 2009 - 4:09 PM
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Golfers enjoying the best fall weather yet at Russian Jack Springs Park golf course. Fran Durner/ADN
Wouldn't you know, as soon as I come back to work, the sun comes out again.
At least I had an hour this morning to run the mower back and forth over the lilac and cherry leaves on the grass in the back yard. There was something very satisfying about doing that. Thanks to our friend Jeff Lowenfels, I've been doing this for years now, feeding the soil, the grass and the worms without the use of any chemicals.
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