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    Melissa
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    My Favorite Plants Tomatoes and fragrant orchids.
    Plants Currently in My Garden Homestead tomatoes, Arkansas Traveler tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, okra, radishes, carrots, asparagus green beans and medicinal plants like cola de alacron, wild tomatillo, mexican tarragon, lemon grass, epazote, canna, 4 o'clock and culinary plants like garlic grass, basil, oregano, lemon balm, spearmint and culantro.
    I love to garden, because.... Producing my own food and medicine keeps me and my husband happy and healthy, and there's lots of pride in the self-sufficiency a good garden can bring.
    Biggest Gardening Challenge Leaf cutter ants and the heavy rains of rainy season in Central America.
    If I'm not gardening, I can be found: In the kitchen cooking!
    Other Hobbies Writing and photography.

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    Melissa
    Lifetime Points: 5


    Location:
    My Favorite Plants Tomatoes and fragrant orchids.
    Plants Currently in My Garden Homestead tomatoes, Arkansas Traveler tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, okra, radishes, carrots, asparagus green beans and medicinal plants like cola de alacron, wild tomatillo, mexican tarragon, lemon grass, epazote, canna, 4 o'clock and culinary plants like garlic grass, basil, oregano, lemon balm, spearmint and culantro.
    I love to garden, because.... Producing my own food and medicine keeps me and my husband happy and healthy, and there's lots of pride in the self-sufficiency a good garden can bring.
    Biggest Gardening Challenge Leaf cutter ants and the heavy rains of rainy season in Central America.
    If I'm not gardening, I can be found: In the kitchen cooking!
    Other Hobbies Writing and photography.

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    Tuesday, November 3
    Melissa The newest drake is too gorgeous to butcher, so we'll find him some more hens and simply expand our duck pens. : )
    Mood: happy
    Melissa posted on a forum discussion.
    Forum Topic: Too wet!
    Sunday, November 1
    Melissa created a new forum thread.
    Too wet!
    Melissa Got 7 more ducks yesterday, processed chili cabro into an awesome hot sauce, and the sun is finally shining!
    Mood: happy
    Friday, October 30
    Melissa uploaded 4 new photos.
    Gallery Photo Removing the outer husk Preparing to open coconuts Guanacaste log table and benches

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    Even with all the bioprospecting out there, there are still tons of plants with undiscovered medicinal qualities. It's such an interesting field. Ethnobotany was one of the directions I considered going into in terms of school and research. Sometimes I still wish I had. You and your husband have a rare opportunity to really get to know Nicaragua, its people and their traditional uses for local plant material. Do you botanize there? The Flora of Nicaragua is in Spanish, but it's pretty new (www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/nicaragua/r...). Apparently, you have tons of native orchids there. How cool!

    Jessie Keith
    October 23, 2009
    08:55 AM EST

    Well, you have that smile that says I know something you don't know or you just found something that is totally fun and are looking for someone to share with. Either way I hope it is always easy for you to keep that smile. I have found gardening to be a blast and things are a lot easier when they are fun and one is smiling.

    Daniel
    October 02, 2009
    03:33 PM EST
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