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Arlene Wright-Correll (1935- _), popular American award winning Artist, free lance writer, & avid gardener, at the age of 68, decided to pick up her paint brushes again after 54 years and paint, in mostly gouache watercolors and pastels, the flowers, herbs

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Home & Garden > Trees & Shrubs Ideas: Create a botanical garden in your back yard: 1 of 1
Most of us at one time or another has been to a botanical garden. As a kid I used to spend a lot of time in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. The last time I was in England I had an opportunity to spend some time in Kew Gardens. When we think of a botanical garden we rarely think of anything small or do-able at our own level o... More..
Food & Drink > Cooking Fruits & Vegetables Tips for cooking with bamboo steamers: 1 of 1
A Cooking tip for using Bamboo Steamers Bamboo steamers are great for steaming food. The texture of the bamboo allows steam to circulate and evaporate so that less moisture will form on the inside of the lid. Steamers are normally placed over boiling water rather than to start steaming over cold water. Some Chinese like to b... More..
Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) How to create a biointensive garden: 1 of 1
Exactly what is a biointensive garden? According to the encylopedia it is a method of an organic agricultual system which focuses on maximum yields from the minimum area of land while simultaneously improving the soil. The ultimate goal of this method is long term sustainability on a closed system basis and a closed system i... More..
Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) Create a biodynamic garden: Beyond simple composting: 1 of 1
A biodynamic garden is one that will provide for its own needs. Along the grand scale of a biodynamic garden or farm it offers spirituality where one uses compost made of homeopathically applied herbal preparations along with mineral and manure based sprays for application on one's plants. This is a garden or farm where one ... More..
Food & Drink > Drinks (Other) The season for making wine and beer: 1 of 1
There is no magic in making your own hard cider, wine and beer, except for the magic of enjoying the end results. There is little mystery in all of this. The magic ingredient is patience. Did you know that beer is one of the oldest products of civilization, and may even have been a stepping stone to the invention of leavened... More..
Food & Drink > Cookware & Cutlery Tips for using Chinese knives and cleavers: 1 of 1
Cooking tips on Chinese Knifes and Chinese Cleavers Wok cooking is very easy if you use the correct utensils and two of those are the Chinese knife and the Chinese cleaver. A little about Chinese knifes: Chinese knives come in 3 weights: big, medium and small. It is composed of a thick blade of carbon or stainless steel with... More..
Food & Drink > Bread & Baking Recipes Recipes: Funeral pie: 1 of 1
How to make Funeral Pie Before we became accustomed to having every staple we needed on hand whether in or out of season our pantry or larder held just a few things such as flour, sugar, salt, coffee and the rest of the time we cooked whatever was in season and most of the time we preserved, canned or dried our seasonal exce... More..
Personal Finance > Credit Cards How to maximize credit card incentives while minimizing debt: 4 of 7
How to Get the Most Mileage Out of Your Credit Cards and Not Pay Interest In 1965 I made a statement to my friend that this country was going back to the "Nobles and the Serfs" and that I would make the world's most rotten serf! This reference was to my personal vision of the decline and fall of the middle class American, es... More..
Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) How to grow an easy flower garden: 9 of 14
Gardening is hard work and anyone who says it isn't must know something I don't know. However, it is good exercise, frustrating, gratifying and many other things. I love flowers and hate weeding so over the years I have tried to find some easy, colorful and reseeding flowers for my gardens. I like lots of bright jewel-like f... More..
Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) Gardening tips: How to start bedding plants: 44 of 59
Gardening tips: How to start bedding plants Using empty egg shells as a seed starting container is a frugal way to start your garden. For a month or so prior to planting I break eggs close to the narrow top when I am cooking, wash them out and save them until I have 2 or 3 dozen empty egg shells saving the containers the egg... More..