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Garden Ideas: Flower Bulbs

Varanasi Estate — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:50:19 +0000

Bulb flowers are a visually attractive addition to any garden, known for their delicate petals and subtle beauty, come in a stunning variety of colours, sizes, shapes and textures, and require least maintenance if planted following the best practices. A good number of popular flowers are actually grown from bulbs including tulips, lilies, daylilies and [...]

How to Garden on a Budget: Cost-Cutting Tips

Varanasi Estate — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:55:12 +0000

Gardening need not be a pricey venture. Even the most experienced gardeners know that planning, designing, executing ideas and harvesting the fruits of hard efforts from a garden is a detailed process, which takes time and you need to be patient throughout the process. Creating a low-budget garden populated with useful plants require innovative ideas, [...]

Garden Ideas: Rain Garden, Part 1

Varanasi Estate — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:52:07 +0000

Rain gardens are an attractive, practically rewarding, and low-maintenance addition to any backyard. Add to this, they are easy to install, look great year-round, help sustain a healthy environment and create a wonderful habitat for wildlife. Besides their visual beauty, functional benefits and ease of maintenance; rain gardens are being increasingly installed worldwide because they [...]

How to Reduce Food Miles

Varanasi Estate — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:22:50 +0000

The term food miles refers to the distance that your food covers from the grower’s field to your plate. It necessarily includes every sort of distance that foods need to travel starting from the transportation to processor to middle men to retailer to consumer. Increased number of food miles may not seem to pose any [...]

As They Say: Interview With Mel O’Brien, LibrarianChic!

Varanasi Estate — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:48:59 +0000

Seasoned stylist, fashion historian and founder of LibrarianChic, Mel O’Brien speaks with us about an eco-friendly fashion in tune with her company’s objective. Read on! V.E: Thanks Mel for accepting our interview request! You have been a seasoned stylist and fashion historian. What do you find the most fascinating thing about the industry and what keeps you [...]

Garden Ideas: Eco-Friendly Garden

Varanasi Estate — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:21:34 +0000

Organic gardening is the talk of the day, thanks to people’s increasing interest in contributing to a safer and eco-friendly world where growing healthy, not conditioned foods is the foremost priority. Organic gardening in its true sense refers to the most natural way of gardening without using any type of synthetic products, be it pesticides [...]

Let Us Pray For 9 – 11

Varanasi Estate — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:20:22 +0000

On this 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, we pray for the families of those innocent people who lost their valuable lives being the victim of one of the most heinous crimes ever committed. We pray the prized memories of your dear ones bring you happiness to defeat the grief. Although it’s extremely hard [...]

How To Reduce The Use Of Plastic

Varanasi Estate — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 06:04:35 +0000

The world is literally drowning in plastic. The harmful synthetic material (read toxic pollutant) exists almost everything; from food containers to toys and shopping bags to household items and more. Why? Because it is cheap, durable, lightweight, easy to use and come with unique functional benefits. But then continued dependency on plastic, its increased use [...]

Garden Ideas: Zen Garden

Varanasi Estate — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:45:11 +0000

A “Zen Garden”, also known as a dry landscape or a Japanese rock garden is composed of a miniature stylized landscape with thoughtfully arranged “rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water,” (Source). Such gardens usually act as a mindscape meant to [...]

How to Remove Pesticides From Fruits and Vegetables

Varanasi Estate — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:37:22 +0000

Not everyone in this world is a gardener and few people have quick access to 100 percent safe organic foods which they can afford to buy consistently. Given this scenario, the vast majority of modern-day consumers are left with only one option: buy a wide variety of affordable, good-looking, and touted-to-be fresh but non organic [...]