Crofton Village Garden Club is one of many local organizations participating in conversations with community leaders about developing a rain garden between Crawford Boulevard and Lake Louise. For inspiration, we don’t have to look far. A 30–person coalition of students at the University of Maryland created a rain garden of native plants on a strip of land [...]
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Arundel Federal Savings Bank has scheduled a shred-fest at their Glen Burnie Branch for 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, July 30. The branch is located at 655 Crain Highway South, Glen Burnie, MD. Prevent identity theft, and watch your old medical records, tax records, bank statements and other personally identifiable papers disappear as they are [...]
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Crofton residents, you may be eligible to win a Yacht tour for 10 or a $100 gift card to a local nursery by simply planting and registering a tree. It’s all part of the Marylanders Plant Trees Initiative, a 2009 challenge by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to citizens and organizations to partner plant [...]
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Backyard Tips for Preserving the Chesapeake Bay Presented by the Crofton Village Garden Club When you compost yard waste and non-meat kitchen scraps to use as mulch or till into garden and flower beds, it will improve soil health in your yard. The Maryland Department of Agriculture provides this list of benefits from composting: COMPOSTING… [...]
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This coming week, The Rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. will house an exhibit of photographs taken this past summer across the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This is the culmination of a summer-long project in which the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) partnered with the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) to highlight the Chesapeake Clean Water Act (CCWA) through photographs, video, and stories. The project was called “The Chesapeake Bay – Something to R.A.V.E. About.” (R.A.V.E. = Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition.)
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Ahhhh…. the joys of home ownership in Crofton, Maryland! It’s autumn, and that means beautiful fall foliage followed by falling leaves in your yard. You can bag those leaves for weekly curbside recycling, shred them with your mower to use as mulch in your garden, or compost them to add to your soil in about [...]
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