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Fall's the best time to prep garden soil for new plants

Fall's the best time to prep garden soil for new plants

If you’re planning a new bed for perennials, groundcovers, shrubs or trees to plant next spring, the path to success starts with a good foundation. It’s easier to improve soil before plants are in place, so the time to do so is now.
by The Associated Press

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A century, a pandemic and 13 editions later, Betty Crocker is still your 'helper in the kitchen'

A century, a pandemic and 13 editions later, Betty Crocker is still your 'helper in the kitchen'

A new Betty Crocker Cookbook edition is out this week — despite the pandemic sending its recipe developers home and into bare supermarkets with the rest of us.
by Tom Crann and Megan Burks

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The last solar eclipse of the year happens today

The last solar eclipse of the year happens today

Tuesday's partial solar eclipse will be seen across Europe, northern Africa and western Asia.
by Ayana Archie

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Appetites: These Minnesotans collect, cultivate ancestral seeds as climate changes

Appetites: These Minnesotans collect, cultivate ancestral seeds as climate changes

In the last decades, indigenous communities have stopped growing the varieties of corn, beans, squash, and various plants they had cultivated for years. Now, a group in Minnesota wants to track down and return these lost seeds to the indigenous communities who once cared for them. Jessika Greendeer, Farm Director and Seed Keeper at Dream of Wild Health, joined Appetites to share more about their seed rematriation efforts.
by Tom Crann and Ngoc Bui

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Fat Bear Week emerges from scandal to crown a new champion Tuesday

Fat Bear Week emerges from scandal to crown a new champion Tuesday

The park says its virtual ballot box was stuffed in Sunday's semifinal, won by the mammoth 747 — who faces a young upstart female named 901 in the final.
by Bill Chappell

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