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My Truce with Pie Crusts By Gert Slabach

Container Gardening - Part 3
(Building a Raised Bed Garden)

Eating Healthy - Part 1
By Liz Smith

Pun Intended
(Contest Results)

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Editor's Page
(Happy Anniversary & Thanks)

Southside Gardener
(Monthly Tips & "To Do List")
By William H. McCaleb

Ask Bubba - Advice
(Parody)
Cat Care 101

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Southside Master Gardeners
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Past Issues

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Articles

My Truce with Pie Crusts

  Life is a lot like baking. You get out of it what you put in. Sometimes things don't always turn out the way we would have planned them, but they usually turn out just the way they are supposed to.
  In this installment of the Things That Keep Me Humble theme, Gert Slabach tells about the things she has learned while making  "My Truce with Pie Crusts" >>>
By Gert Slabach

Container Gardening - Part 3
  Building a Raised Bed Garden

  If you ever wanted to give gardening a try, but didn't feel you had all the necessary tools and knowledge, this might be just the project for you.
  Not being expert gardeners, we were a little intimidated, but a raised Bed Garden seemed like something we could handle.
  With the help of some local resources, we are going to try to grow something besides weeds.
  Follow along in this series of gardening adventures as we fearlessly build a Raised Bed Garden and try to reap some healthy rewards from the result.
  Read Container Gardening - Part 3 >>>

Eating Healthy - Part 1

   Eating healthy can be fun, entertaining, sometimes daring, but most of all, binds us even more as a family.
   As the mother of eight and the owner or an "Amish-Style" market, Liz Smith has learned a few things about eating healthy without breaking the bank.
   In this first article in a new series, Liz Smith of Yoder's Country Market tells us how eating healthy can be more fun and easier than we think.
   Follow along as Liz offers some ways to eat well and shares some great recipes too, in Eating Healthy - Part 1 >>

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Pun Intended

   When is a contest, not a contest?
   When you can play and everybody wins.
   What started out as a visual pun, turned into a way to help animals in local shelters.
   Check out this month's Pun Intended, meet Ruby (our four-legged spokes model), have a chuckle and help out your local animal shelter or SPCA. Play Pun Intended >>>

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Regular Columns

  Southside Gardener

  By William H. McCaleb

  Summer sun and heat make for some special gardening considerations for your lawn and garden.
  The Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Southside Master Gardeners give us some suggestions on ways to keep your plants healthy. Here are this month's garden tips and To-Do's for Southside Virginia.
  Check out the Southside Gardener. >>>

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  Ask Bubba - Cat Care 101

  With all the talk about helping animals, Bubba had to get into the act. This time he offers some "helpful" advice about pet care.
  Cat fancier or dog lover, you will lap up this month's edition of Ask Bubba >>>

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