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March 31, 2011

Seeds and crackers

TriscuitIn an effort to encourage people to grow their own herbs and vegetables no matter where they live, Triscuit has again this year joined Home Farming and is distributing herb seeds on its cracker boxes.

Eight million packages of Original and Reduced-Fat Triscuit crackers will include little cardboard squares  infused with basil or dill herb seeds. That's up from four million last year.

The cards can be planted directly into the ground after being soaked in water for a couple of hours. Instructions are on the side of the cracker box.

Triscuit and Urban Farming will also collaborate to create 50 community-based home farms across the U.S. Begining in Los Angeles, gardens will also be planted in Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Tampa, among other cities.

Local residents and community groups can volunteer to maintain the farm and harvest the produce.

Note: You have to provide your own chees slices!

Posted by Susan Reimer at 12:15 PM | | Comments (1)
Categories: Vegetable gardening
        

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Great idea! You are what you eat.

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About Susan Reimer
Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.
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