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Garden Home City: Creating and Urban Haven

Creating and Urban Haven

Shop for organic, Eco-friendly products at VivaTerra. By VivaTerra founder, Bonnie Trust Dahan Love flowers, but not so fond of country living? Garden Home City is bursting with ideas created with you in mind–at once urban, modern, and brightly blooming. Original ways to bring the great outdoors into your living room are designed around the constraints of city living. While the focus of the book is mainly on inspirational photos showcasing lush colors and clever combinations, you’ll also find short essays discussing palettes, scents, and beneficial houseplants. Even if your available space is no bigger than a windowsill, you can give it new appeal entirely in keeping with your metropolitan life.

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Drinkwell Pet Fountain Aqua Garden

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Drinkwell Pet Fountain Aqua Garden

Aqua Garden Is An Innovation In Cat Grass!The Aqua Garden is an innovation in cat grass! This hydroponic cat grass garden is a natural treat of 100% organic wheat grass that your cat loves. The Aqua Garden uses no soil or additives, just the continuously circulating water of the Drinkwell Pet Fountain to grow cat grass in a matter of days. Wheat grass is used to help manage hairballs, aid in digestion and can even save houseplants! The Aqua Garden only attaches to your Original Drinkwell Pet FountainDrinkwell Aqua Garden has been awarded Cat Fancy Editor’s Choice Award Veterinary Ventures, Inc. has been awarded Cat Fancy Magazines coveted Editors Choice Award for the Aqua Garden TM in 2006, a hydroponic cat grass garden that grows a natural treat of 100% organic wheat grass that cats love. The award was given in recognition of the Aqua Garden TM as an innovative and outstanding cat product. The award is decided upon by the editors of Cat Fancy Magazine. The group scrutinizes a broad variety of cat products until one product stands alone as the most effective in its category.

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This Organic Life Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader

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This Organic Life Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader

Joan Dye Gussow is an extraordinarily ordinary woman. She lives in a home not unlike the average home in a neighborhood that is, more or less, typically suburban. What sets her apart from the rest of us is that she thinks more deeply — and in more eloquent detail — about food. In sharing her ponderings, she sets a delightful example for those of us who seek the healthiest, most pleasurable lifestyle within an environment determined to propel us in the opposite direction. Joan is a suburbanite with a green thumb, but also a feisty, defiant spirit with a relentlessly positive outlook. This Organic Life begins with Joan and her husband Alan’s trials and tribulations growing vegetables for their own table while coping with careers and a sprawling Victorian house in Congers, New York. Motivated to go “off-the-grid” of the global food system in their later years, the Gussows find and fall in love with a dilapidated Odd Fellows Hall on the banks of the Hudson River. Joan’s often hilariou

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