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August 26, 2015
Growing familiar vegetables that don't look familiar

Growing familiar vegetables that don't look familiar

These aren't your mother's vegetables, but they might be your great grandma's
Home & Garden
August 25, 2015
Variety
August 25, 2015

Where to buy perennials

Home & Garden
August 25, 2015
Hummingbirds fight for feeder rights

Hummingbirds fight for feeder rights

Small, testy birds
Home & Garden
August 25, 2015
What's the life expectancy of a cedar roof in Minnesota?

What's the life expectancy of a cedar roof in Minnesota?

I've long since ignored the manufacturer's claims about cedar roof lifespans because I've been a first person witness to what actually occurs here in Minnesota over the arc of time.
Home & Garden
August 24, 2015
Hardy hibiscus is end-of-summer showstopper

Hardy hibiscus is end-of-summer showstopper

The late bloomer is a cool cultivar for northern climate gardens
Variety
August 22, 2015
Michael Anschel, of Otogawa-Anschel Design Build, matched the oak millwork and other period details from the living and dining rooms in the added-on s

Homegazing: A pioneering green bungalow in north Minneapolis

The eco-friendly remodeling of a north Minneapolis home was a pilot project for the Minnesota GreenStar program. You can have it for $265,000.
Variety
August 22, 2015
Austene Van relaxes in the main living area of her recently remodeled houseboat.

Twin Cities actor creates the home of her dreams — on a houseboat

Austene Van has always felt most at home on the water. "It's magical!" she said. "There's some power in it."
Variety
August 22, 2015

Twin Cities theater actor creates the home of her dreams — on a DIY Mississippi River houseboat

Austene Van has always felt most at home on the water. "It's magical!" she said. "There's some power in it."
Variety
August 22, 2015
Home & Garden
August 21, 2015

Sandhill Cranes juveniles almost full size now

Cranes at Crex Meadows, Grantsburg, Wis.
Variety
August 21, 2015
Home plan for Aug. 23, 2015: Bungalow lives large on a narrow lot

Home plan: Bungalow lives large on a narrow lot

Variety
August 21, 2015

How to make gardening easier for graying green thumbs

Aging gardeners can take it easier with savvy plant choices, tools and strategies.
Home & Garden
August 18, 2015

Hummingbirds are on the move

Keep those nectar feeders full
Home & Garden
August 18, 2015
Photo by Craig Millard , Special to the Star Tribune 1. Black-crowned night herons, the fireplugs of the heron family, are unique in sporting a brilli

Night herons are less seen, shorter cousins in heron family

Count yourself lucky if you've ever seen these small, elusive relatives of the more familiar herons and egrets.
Home & Garden
August 18, 2015

The wrath of grapes

My grape expectations led to little more than a lost summer day
Home & Garden
August 18, 2015
Air conditioner in the attic? That spells leaks and a big mess

Air conditioner in the attic? That spells leaks and a big mess

With these systems, condensate leaks can lead to a big mess, but it's nothing compared to a condensate leak that occurs at an air conditioner in an attic, or really any place that has finished space below.
Variety
August 15, 2015
A Pennsylvania farmhouse-style home in St. Louis Park has been restored by new owners Ross and Lilly Moeding.

Simple St. Louis Park house, with a name and back story, begins new chapter

The story began in the late 1920s when Alice and Frank Tisdale built a new home in a then-rural setting in St. Louis Park, just west of the Minikahda Club and east of Bass Lake.

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