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LED Grow Lights: The Right Choice for Your Indoor Cannabis Plants

Several states in the USA such as Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, California, Nevada, Massachusetts and the federal district of Washington D.C. allow personal cannabis cultivation for recreational growers and medical patients. In certain states such as California, recreational cultivation is limited to indoor growing.

For some cannabis growers, the main goal is to maximize the […]

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Permaculture Ethics for a More Sustainable World

In recent years, permaculture has influenced thousands of people to begin to search for more sustainable ways to live in harmony and community with the natural world and the community of people around them. More than just a simple collection of organic farming tools and methods, the permaculture movement rests on three main ethics that […]

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The Importance of Microclimates to Landscape Design

The climate you live in largely determines what you can grow and when you can grow it. Most of us have heard of the United States Department of Agriculture climate zones. Those numbers that come on the packets of every seed packet serve to remind us we’ll be hard-pressed to grow peaches in Michigan or […]

Gardening & Farming growing cannabis indoors: a healthy indoor-grown cannabis plant.
Is Growing Indoors The Best Way to Yield Healthy Cannabis?

Although many states in the USA are blessed with appropriate weather conditions and ample sunshine, recent cannabis regulations mandate that cannabis growers are required to grow indoors to avoid growing in the public eye. A majority of the states across the USA have legalized the use of medical marijuana and legal commercial grow operations are […]

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The Surprising Health Benefits in Your Weedy Lawn

What exactly is a weed?

Great thinkers have argued over a proper definition for centuries. Ralph Waldo Emerson provided a redemptive perspective on the scourge of gardeners by calling them “a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered”, while Doug Larson took the more pragmatic approach- that they are “a plant that has mastered […]