Community Gardens Fet Funding Boost

Follow Your Town News On The Courant's Hartford Facebook Page A new community garden at Earle and Barbour streets, complete with 10 fruit trees, will be built this spring with a federal grant.

Home and Garden

Home and Garden Learn the basics of growing fruit trees from Texas AgriLife Extension Service horticulturist David Rodriguez. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Schulz Nursery, 100 W. Huebinger Road, Marion. 210-467-6575. Home Depot will host workshops on energy-efficient lighting options every Saturday in January. Lighting department associates will answer customer questions. 10 a.m. Home Depot locations. www ...

Insect Offense or Defense

This has been one of the driest autumns on record in the Sierra foothills. The new year was dry as a bone as well. The parched landscape and water-starved trees are definitely more vulnerable to infestation

What is and isn't honey?

Whaleyville beekeeper Wes Townsend holds a jar of his colony's honey, with the hives in the background. Legislation has been introduced to create a standard of identity for honey and how it is labeled, to distinguish pure honey from other products.

Home & Garden: Jan. 7

Home & Garden: Jan. 7 Express-News Copyright 2012 Express-News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 03:50 p.m., Friday, January 6, 2012 The Guadalupe County Chapter of the Native Plant Society will host Andrea Sanger of Hill Country Gardens nursery in New Braunfels for a program about using native plants in the landscape. 6 ...