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The REACH Project Holds Family Farm Day, Helps Families Build Their Own Container Garden

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Growing your own container garden brings many benefits, such as spending less money in the grocery, controlling when you harvest your food, providing healthier options for your meals, and encouraging you to get in touch with nature. That is what the REACH project aims to teach to families all over Texas. The REACH project is a local non-profit organization that educates families on how to build their farm gardens.

“The whole concept is to provide all the tools, resources, and environment that individuals need to reach their fullest potential. Whether that be in healthy eating, urban gardening sphere, whether that be in the educational sphere,” said the REACH project’s founder, Max Garell, “We do credit score, credit repair, personal finance, ESL classes, GED classes, we really cover the whole gamut.”

The REACH project is also considering starting a co-op urban garden where families can get together to practice their skills and provide new opportunities.

You can learn more by watching the video at this link: https://www.kxxv.com/brazos/the-reach-project-holds-family-farm-day-helps-families-build-their-own-container-garden.

How to Plant Flowers in Pots: Step-by-Step Guide to Stunning Patio Containers

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If you’re looking for something fun to do, why not spruce up your home with a beautiful flower container garden. With their different fragrances and bright colors, it would look stunning on your patio. Although it’s not that difficult to grow a garden of flowers, there are a few guidelines when choosing, planting, and caring for them.

Key takeaways:

  • It is essential to check plant labels when choosing your flowers to determine how high and wide they can grow. With the information, you can ensure that the flowers don’t grow too big and overwhelm the other plants.
  • If you want to plan some container gardening ideas, you need to make sure that the selected flowers favor similar environments and conditions. You also have to choose a suitable garden planter that works best with your desired area.
  • A cottage garden planter is a beautiful idea using a terracotta pot, adding a lovely bride rose in the center, and surrounding it with Cambridge blue lobelias, white bacopas, and mixed nemesias.

Read the full guide to stunning patio containers here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/home-and-garden/how-to-plant-flowers-in-pots-step-by-step-guide-to-stunning-patio-containers/ar-AAMhGcu.

What is Permaculture? Designing a Resilient Garden

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Do you want a resilient farm that provides your food and crops, a garden that produces varieties of herbs and flowers, and a habitat for wildlife? If so, you can try to make a permaculture ecosystem. It requires much practice, patience, and determination, but it will be worth it once you have that productive permaculture garden.

Key takeaways:

  • Permaculture is the design and maintenance of productive ecosystems with the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.”
  • Permaculture’s prime directive is to do your best to take care of your own needs. Taking care of your own needs doesn’t mean you have to become completely self-reliant. Instead, you have to do your best to make the highest use of resources available to you.
  • The permaculture design uses three ethics:
    • Care for earth
    • Care for people
    • Reinvest surplus
  • There are six permaculture principles that can help build a more productive ecosystem:
    • Observe and interact with the land.
    • Connect and integrate the pieces.
    • Catch and store energy and materials.
    • Each component must perform multiple functions.
    • Make the smallest change for the greatest effect. Look for leverage points where the least amount of work can accomplish the most difference.
    • Use small-scale, intensive systems.
  • To get started on permaculture, you must know that it takes a lot of practice. It’s okay to experiment and fail. From all your experiments, collect data so you can learn how to make an even more productive and successful system.
  • For more permaculture resources, you can read more articles, consult with a certified permaculture designer, or sign up for a permaculture mini-course.

Learn more by reading the full article: https://www.tenthacrefarm.com/what-is-permaculture/.

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