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Featured Articles from the West Sound. These are the highlighted articles from WestSound Magazine.

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Shotweed (cardamine hirsuta) as filling in a tea sandwich with cream cheese and butter.

Spring Time Means Exotic Greens (and Even ‘Weeds’) for Your Table

This is the time of year when everything starts turning the most magnificent color of green, and humans begin to sense it is time for spring cleaning. Rebirth, renewal, cleansing of home, body and spirit is the focus. Perhaps Mother Nature leads us … read more

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Get The Dirt — On Home Gardening

Farmers Markets • Plant Sales • Giving Back...

Let the official gardening season begin. At least for hardcore gardeners. It’s time to plant potatoes; put in peas and sow some lettuce seeds, bok choy, chard, kale and a host of other cooler season veggies. Get ready to plant fruit trees, raspberries, … read more

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Interior Design

Remodeling with Timeless Designs Vs. Trends

Starting the process of a remodeling project is exhilarating, and also daunting. The excitement of having a space (or spaces) that will function for you and your family makes you daydream of many pages out of trendy magazines. The reality is, you eventually … read more

Remodeling Checklist
Remodeling Checklist

How to Hire the Best Professionals for Your Project

The winter holidays often have a way of highlighting the need for a remodel. Cramped kitchens with failing appliances, bathrooms with leaky taps and no storage for guests’ toiletry bags, front entries with no room for guests’ cast-off shoes — the list goes … read more

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Calla lilies, like those with the black flowers of ‘Night Cap’ and white blooms of ‘Crystal Clear,’ are spring-planted bulbs that thrive in full sun or part shade and can be cut to create an elegant display indoors.

Extend the Garden Season with Spring Planted Bulbs

Keeping your garden looking its best throughout the growing season and into fall is possible with the help of low-maintenance, spring-planted bulbs. Plant them in spring among other annuals or perennials and watch as these bulbs brighten the garden, adding new life to … read more

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Crab Feast

Crab Feast to Benefit Nonprofit Community Center on the Key Peninsula

The Key Peninsula Civic Center invites everyone to its annual fundraiser Crab Feed on Saturday, March 12, 4-7p.m. In addition to the very fresh Pacific Coast Dungeness crab, the dinner will include spaghetti, salad, garlic bread and coffee and tea. Soda, beer and wine … read more

Tales From the Coop

Tales From the Coop

Regard it just as desirable to build a...

This is not Chickenology 101 nor a “how-to” but a “why to” article. All the technical and educational information about raising chickens can be found anywhere. However, the sources seem to lack the back story about the experience of raising chickens. I have … read more

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Garden Nursery Plants
Gardening With Peg

How to Select Plants for Purchase

From fall into spring is a great time to purchase and add plants to our landscapes. It’s also a great time to plant up some containers. But how do you choose good, strong, healthy plants? Plant Selection The first step is deciding what … read more

A Forever Home and Garden
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A ‘Forever’ Home and Garden

Lana and Bob Decker live on a secluded hilltop above Wildcat Lake. They’ve created their “forever” home and garden on an idyllic 5-acre piece of land. Bob Decker was a lifelong Alaskan and Lana moved to Alaska in 1981. They married in 1989, … read more

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