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<![CDATA[Putting Our Garden to bed, sort of]]>
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<![CDATA[Six months after we started, Our Garden takes a winter break from weekly classes. We look back at what we accomplished and what lies ahead.]]>
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<![CDATA[jmorris@bayareanewsgroup.com (Joan Morris / Contra Costa Times)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:40:10 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Mrs. Obama, How Did Your Garden Grow?]]>
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<![CDATA[Rarely has a giant sweet potato, a muddy knee and a stubbornly rooted fennel plant caused such a stir. But when First Lady Michelle Obama led groups of District of Columbia fifth-graders Thursday afternoon in the fall harvesting of the White House Kitchen Garden, much oohing, giggling, cuteness and]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Robin Givhan / The Washington Post)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:56:36 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[At Home: Turning something old into something new]]>
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<![CDATA[I'M SITTING cross-legged on top of my husband's desk trying to talk seriously, which is difficult in this humbling position. Besides the desk chair, which Dan's in, the only other seating in his home office is the even more demeaning floor.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Marni Jameson / Contra Costa Times correspondent)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:52:43 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Garden as Art: Coffee plant]]>
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<![CDATA[After years of nurturing this coffee plant, Mary Highfill of Point Richmond was thrilled to see the plant covered with blooms, which eventually produced a single bean.]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:31:02 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Our Garden: Grafting]]>
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<![CDATA[Learning to graft means you can enjoy a variety of fruit on a single tree.]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:15:26 -0700]]>
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