Each morning in the month of October, when my fellow garden manager Henry and I arrive at work, we immediately light the stove and put on that day’s vat of soup.
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With the end of the season comes chilly mornings, orange leaves, and big harvests! The end of the community garden season is marked by Closing Day - October 25th.
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Our most-read Real Dirt post when it comes to this time of year? Four Ways to Preserve Peppers. Clearly, Missoula has a lot of pepper love, so we went back to the source — audibly!
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In the Northside Community Garden, an unassuming plant tells a long story. You could be fooled into mistaking it for a weed, with its fuzzy top and spear-shaped leaves.
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It's been eight summers now that Dave and I have been at the helm of the farm and worked alongside our summer student crew: this year, a group of tender-hearted and strong individuals who are now good farmers.
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Missoula's seasons don't look the way they used to. Hundred-mile-an-hour windstorms. Smothering wildfire smoke. Unquenchable heat waves. Late-spring frosts. Freakishly warm winters. For gardeners, always down on our knees tending a small plot of land, the impacts go all the way down to the roots.
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See how a weekly Garden Club at Providence Hospital Garden — through a partnership with Moving Mountains Therapy — is growing friendships, fresh food, and confidence, one carrot salad at a time. (Bonus recipe included!)
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How about this: Farm to School founder Jason Mandala has a simple philosophy: kids don't need to remember every fact — they need to have fun. Twenty years in, he's still meeting the grown-up proof that it works.
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