Book Review: The Wellness Garden

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The Wellness Garden: Grow, Eat & Walk Your Way to Better Health by Shawna Coronado (Cool Springs Press, 160 pp., $24.99) Meet Shawna Coronado. Diagnosed with severe spinal degenerative osteoarthritis, her future looked bleak. She suffered from debilitating joint pain and inflammation that affected her everyday life, limiting what she could do. She could have resigned herself to the use […]

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The Bluebirds Are Back!

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It’s always an exciting day when we discover “our” bluebirds have returned! A pair of them showed up about two weeks ago and immediately staked out one of our front-yard birdhouses. We always wonder if they’re the same pair we’ve had for the past few years. It’s hard to know for certain, though. There is also a second bluebird house […]

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March 25 Column: Pruning Basics

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‘Tis the season for pruning, right? Well, before you dive into it, I thought it would help to discuss some pruning basics first. For my column, I interviewed Tim Kohlhauff (seen at left), the Urban Horticulture Coordinator for Spokane County Extension. Here is a link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Pruning correctly helps keep trees and […]

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