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GET IT GROWING!: Container, newly planted plants need special watering care
By Dan Gill LSU AgCenter Horticulturist Lots of new planting gets done every spring. Proper watering can make the difference between life and death to newly planted lawns, trees, shrubs and groun...
May 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 38 38 recommendations | email to a friend
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Nutrition Month Blends Tradition, Culture With Healthful Eating
Nutritionists are encouraging people to eat right, your way, every day as a part of March’s National Nutrition Month. Eating right doesn’t mean you have to give up your favorite foods. You just nee...
Apr 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 41 41 recommendations | email to a friend
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Nutrition Month Blends Tradition, Culture With Healthful Eating
Nutritionists are encouraging people to eat right, your way, every day as a part of March’s National Nutrition Month. Eating right doesn’t mean you have to give up your favorite foods. You just nee...
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
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“The Versatile Tomato Plant”
When Thomas Jefferson brought tomato seeds from Italy to our country, little did he know how vegetables affected a person’s eating desires and habits. At one time tomatoes were thought to be poison...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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It's Strawberry Time!
Strawberry season is March to early May and in Louisiana nine parishes grow strawberries commercially. The majority of our strawberries are grown in Livingston and Tangipahoa parishes. Did you kn...
Mar 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Bookworm Sez...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer Drivel, dreck, and what the heck. That kind of sums up the books that were released in 2012. There were some good things, some downright awful things, and some things tha...
Jan 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
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Exercise and awareness can counteract holiday stress
The holidays are supposed to be a joyful time, but for many, this time of the year can bring stress and anxiety. Everything is red and green about the holidays, but a lot of people are experiencing...
Dec 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Watch out for those extra holiday calories!
Are you one of the many Americans who face the holiday season with some fear of gaining weight? The good news is that although many people gain weight from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day, rese...
Dec 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Vicki Foreman: Wife, Mother, Friend, Cancer Survivor
Vicki Foreman is a lot of things, but she is a cancer survivor last. Vicki, firstly, is the wife of Charles Foreman; mother to Heather, Hank and Corey; and the grandmother of four. “I believe I ...
Oct 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Farm Bureau backs Landowner Cleanup Bill
BATON ROUGE – The state’s largest farm organization is backing a bill in the Louisiana Legislature that would allow both landowners and the oil and gas industry to mediate cleanup issues created by...
Apr 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Bookworm Sez: ‘The Rescue of Belle & Sundance’
The argument could be made that you’re a softy. You can’t bear to watch any TV show in which someone loses his pet; even Lassie puts a lump in your throat, never mind those commercials with the ho...
Apr 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lean, finely textured beef
A couple of former USDA scientists called this beef product “pink slime” on a recent ABC news program. Media picked up on it characterizing the product as scraps and waste normally destined for p...
Apr 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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