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Gardening Resources:

  • Garden Planning Tool through Farmer’s Almanac
  • Gardenate: what to plant, when
  • Preparing Soil for Planting
  • Collection of gardening databases
  • Soil amendment
  • Crop Rotation Made Easy
  • Organic integrated pest management
  • Tips for raised bed maintenance throughout the season by Jennifer Carpenter
  • Winterizing raised beds tips by Jennifer Carpenter

Local sources of soil, mulch, straw:

  • Frederick County Landfill: cheap compost and mulch; pick up yourself
  • Get Chip Drop: get a free (large) delivery of wood chips when a landscaping company cuts down a tree
  • Bussard Brothers: get soil, compost, mulch, straw bales delivered

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Through an integration of the liberal arts and the professions, Hood College provides an education that empowers students to use their hearts, minds and hands to meet personal, professional and global challenges and to lead purposeful lives of responsibility, leadership, service and civic engagement.

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