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Maybe you have abandoned most of the traditional Valentine's Day "trappings" in favor of simply giving a card or flowers or chocolates to your loved ones whenever you darn well feel like it ...

Your garden can be anything from a couple of sprout jars to a small flower bed, a water garden, a "salad garden" or a bumper crop on acres of farmland. Size doesn't really matter here. Choose a garden that fits your life. ...

In this session with nature, you're going to learn the location, shape and size of your garden. That's it! Some of this may have already been identified in your DDP. If you're planning a windowsill, patio or deck garden, you'll obviously be working within that space, but you still need to determine where on the patio those planted areas will be, and how much of the patio will contain plants. ...

Soil-less Gardens are those projects and goals in our daily lives that are not rooted in water or soil — our job, home, family, profession, classroom, education program, writing project, speech presentation, the arts, business, research projects ...

The first step to a soil-less garden project is choosing what your project will be. The second step is to put your goal into words. That is, write your DDP ...

Do you have everything you'll need before you officially activate your first soil-less garden project with nature? This is what you must have to do the soil-less garden processes Machaelle and nature have established for all of us ...

Time to find out what plants and seeds are right for your garden's balance. Gardening with nature as your partner is rewarding. It is also useful and can help to satisfy your need to do something in your "little corner of the world" that will have a positive impact on the bigger world around you. ...

When you create a soil-less garden, you are choosing to work in conscious partnership with nature to achieve a goal in balance. That balance starts with the coning structure — two parts nature intelligence and two parts human intelligence ...

It's time to connect to your project team and officially activate your soil-less garden! For the starting process, you are going to open that coning and "break ground" on your new venture. Said another way — you are going to call your first meeting to order and state your mission ...

(Attention Soil-less Gardeners! This information will be helpful for you too.) Do you have your seed and plant lists completed? Great! Get them out, along with your drawing of your garden's shape and size. And get ready to discover on the layout of your garden with your nature partner. With this step, you'll begin to visualize the garden coming together. ...