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Clean Streams Program for Turfgrass Professionals

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The Clean Streams program trains green industry professionals on what it takes to protect area creeks while doing their jobs as well as introduces types of best management practices utilized to prevent or reduce water pollution.   As a result of this program, participants will: -Learn

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Clean Streams Program for Turfgrass Professionals

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The Clean Streams program trains green industry professionals on what it takes to protect area creeks while doing their jobs as well as introduces types of best management practices utilized to prevent or reduce water pollution.   As a result of this program, participants will: -Learn

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Clean Streams Program for Turfgrass Professionals

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The Clean Streams program trains green industry professionals on what it takes to protect area creeks while doing their jobs as well as introduces types of best management practices utilized to prevent or reduce water pollution.   As a result of this program, participants will: -Learn

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Clean Streams Program for Turfgrass Professionals

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The Clean Streams program trains green industry professionals on what it takes to protect area creeks while doing their jobs as well as introduces types of best management practices utilized to prevent or reduce water pollution.   As a result of this program, participants will: -Learn

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Support our Local Farms, Become a Locavore!

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Locavore was the 2007 Oxford Dictionary word of the year.  The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores are people who pay attention to where their food comes from and commit to

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Support our Local Farms, Become a Locavore!

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Locavore was the 2007 Oxford Dictionary word of the year.  The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores are people who pay attention to where their food comes from and commit to

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Support our Local Farms, Become a Locavore!

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Locavore was the 2007 Oxford Dictionary word of the year.  The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores are people who pay attention to where their food comes from and commit to

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Gardening Tips: Strawberry Day at the Roanoke Valley Farmers Market

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Gardening Tips: Strawberry Day at the Roanoke Valley Farmers Market The Roanoke Valley Farmers Market will open for 2008 on Saturday May 10th.  The market, on NC Highway 158 West in Roanoke Rapids, will be open every Saturday from 8 am to 2 pm.  Opening day this year will be “Strawberry Day.”  We will have several

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Support our Local Farms, Become a Locavore!

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Locavore was the 2007 Oxford Dictionary word of the year.  The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores are people who pay attention to where their food comes from and commit to

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Gardening Tips: Controlling Fireblight in Apples and Pears

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Gardening Tips: Controlling Fireblight in Apples and PearsSome insect and disease problems can be easily solved by identifying the problem and then spraying with the appropriate insecticide or fungicide.  Other times these problems do not have a silver bullet chemical cure that will solve them, and homeowners must use other methods to control the problem.  Fireblight is one such example.      Fireblight is a bacterial disease that infects primarily apple and pear trees. 

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