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Planning Your Garden Using Illustrator, vol. 1- Asking the hard questions

04.26.2012 Garden Planning

Here at gardenfreude, we probably spend as much time talking about our garden as we do being in it. We are constantly talking about things we’d like to plant, things we don’t think paid off (both literally and figuratively). There have been rousing successes and massive failures, like quinoa, which failed so miserably we prefer [...]

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The Grow Room

04.15.2012 Garden Planning

If you read our guest post over at We Heart Astoria a few days ago, you already know about The Grow Room. Maybe you already went and checked them out in person. We thought we knew every gardening supply store in our hood, but just to be thorough we did a quick google before writing [...]

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Beginning to Dig In Again

01.03.2012 Garden Planning

Today is the coldest day we have had in NYC this winter, and we are gardening. . . OK, we’re not actually gardening. We are sitting in our flannels, warm and cozy, perusing seed catalogs and planning the garden. We just wanted to take a moment to say Happy New Year and we look forward [...]

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Pumpkin # 6 – Pumpkinstein

10.26.2011 Uncategorized

We are off to the Astoria Bloggers Social tonight, but we wanted to share todays pumpkin. . . Pumpkinstein (pronounced pum.kin.shteen). Enjoy!

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Adventures in 3-D or Pumpkins #2-4

10.23.2011 Design

If you’ve been following this blog closely, you may be beginning to notice that we are not a family that likes to make things simple. In fact, we frequently look at each other in the midst of a project and freely admit that we have made a mountain out of a mole hill. This is true [...]

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Pumpkin #1-Bee Love

10.20.2011 Design

I absolutely love bees. We have enjoyed building a garden where they feel comfortable and we are very much looking forward to the day we have a buzzing little hive of our own. I’m even actively researching bee art for my next tattoo. When I wanted to carve our first pumpkin of the season, it [...]

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Wintergreen, the evergreen

10.11.2011 Gardening

I have always loved the taste of wintergreen.  It manages to be both cooling and calming, somehow astringent and wholesome.  And, of course, Wint-O-Green Life Savers spark in the dark.  Despite my love of it, I never thought to seek out the origin of this flavoring, which as it turns out is used in root [...]

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Pumpkins- from Patch to Porch

10.08.2011 Baking

The word October is practically synonymous with pumpkins- either word will evoke the images and smells we have come to associate with Autumn. The word pumpkin actually comes from the Greek pepon (πέπων), which means “large melon”and should come as no surprise to any gardener who has grown them.  Pumpkins are in the Cucurbitaceae family, which also includes [...]

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Why Everyone Should Be Eating Chia Seeds

10.06.2011 Fitness

There was a good portion of both of our lives where we could have started most stories with, “When I was drunk …” These days lots of our stories begin with “When we were raw…” Such is the case with our introduction to chia seed. When we were raw we were always thinking about where [...]

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Theatre Window at Site

10.05.2011 Design
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Once upon a time I was a scenic designer for the theatre and what I discovered was that I loved making visual art, but I did not enjoy the business of designing for the theatre. Now I take any opportunity I can to create things and when they are large scale collaborative projects I get [...]

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