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		<title>The Path Of Learning How To Grow:  Learning Through Failure &#038; Experience</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we discussed learning through experience and failure. Let&#8217;s probe that a bit more. Some of you may have had some failures, it&#8217;s important to frame them correctly! We can&#8217;t say it enough here, but gardening and growing from seed are hard. Yet, you have to start somewhere. That&#8217;s usually a point of knowing almost [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy &#8220;Spring&#8221; Everyone, What We&#8217;re Looking Forward To!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy &#8220;spring&#8221; everyone. We find the spring equinox almost comical to celebrate here. It was 20 below zero this morning and perhaps obviously, our frozen world hasn&#8217;t even begun to give way even a little bit. This winter has been absolutely brutal on us. We&#8217;ve had some of the coldest sustained temperatures and heaviest snowfalls [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What&#8217;s On Our Minds In The Early Growing Season?</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2026/01/24/whats-on-our-minds-in-the-early-growing-season/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some of you might wonder &#8220;what&#8217;s on our minds?&#8221; We&#8217;re in this awkward stage, well into the planning stages of our 2026 gardens, but not able to execute. We&#8217;re clearly still paralyzed by cold temperatures, snow &#38; ice and a season that doesn&#8217;t begin for at least four more months! Many of our thoughts drift [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking About Food Banks, Our First Annual Fund Raiser!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we approach the Christmas holiday and the giving season, we&#8217;d like to do something both fun and beneficial. Specifically, we&#8217;d like to recognize the incredible work of our food banks and the importance of their mission. Our mission here at Frosty Garden is closely intertwined with theirs, with our goal being to teach other [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Soliciting Feedback:  Time Management, YouTube, Facebook &#038; Our Efforts</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/12/14/soliciting-feedback-time-management-youtube-facebook-our-efforts/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Greetings followers! I wanted to solicit your input with regard to our future efforts. As many of you know, we try to cater to what you want to see and we think it&#8217;s important to establish feedback loops in our social efforts. As many of you know, we also operate a YouTube channel. We&#8217;ve seen [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Legendary Alaskan Produce:  Gargantuan Brussels Sprouts Edition!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alaskan produce is legendary. Outsiders often aren&#8217;t aware that Alaska, and other northern areas, often bear some of the largest produce grown on earth. Growers in these areas understand why. Fueling plants with 24 hours of sunlight, and near constant photosynthesis for several months, is a recipe for massive growth. The Alaska State Fair is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Greenhouse Teardown:  Reflecting On A Fantastic Growing Season</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/09/22/greenhouse-teardown-reflecting-on-a-fantastic-growing-season/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, this one&#8217;s always kind of a bummer. We&#8217;ve taken down the greenhouse for the season. Our heating systems were kicking on pretty regularly, fighting against overnight temperatures in the 30&#8217;s. Plus, tomato ripening has slowed to a crawl. So, it was time. The main reason for the tear down, though, is the temperatures. We&#8217;re [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How We Learned To Grow &#038; Preserve A Lot Of Food</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/08/25/how-we-learned-to-grow-preserve-a-lot-of-food/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the things we like to talk about each season is how we learned how to do this stuff. Believe it or not, we didn&#8217;t grow up with big gardens and food preservation at the forefront. For us, these interests developed later in life and weren&#8217;t necessarily inspired by our upbringing. It was fully [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Preserving Roasted Peppers &#038; Our General Preservation Philosophy</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/08/23/preserving-roasted-peppers-general-preservation-philosophy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rain or shine, the show must go on! With a whole garden to harvest and preserve, even inches of rainfall aren&#8217;t going to stop us. But, it&#8217;s a good day to discuss a bit of preservation philosophy! You&#8217;ll notice here that we&#8217;re roasting a boat load of Shishito peppers. We started growing this pepper variety [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Broken &#038; Hurting:  The Reality Of Gardening &#038; Life Isn&#8217;t Always Idyllic</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/07/24/broken-hurting-the-reality-of-gardening-life-isnt-always-idyllic/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 03:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Challenges]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whoof. Every once in awhile, our gardens push us to the breaking point. The latter half of the garden season can be challenging to keep up with. Add in &#8220;real life&#8221; and it can definitely be a lot. We do want you all to know that this social media gardening stuff makes it look easy. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Deceit &#038; Marketing:  The Real Truth Behind Organic And Inorganic Fertilizers</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/07/03/deceit-marketing-the-real-truth-behind-organic-and-inorganic-fertilizers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, one of our readers recently wanted to know why we favor what are known as &#8220;synthetic&#8221; fertilizers over more &#8220;organic&#8221; processes like using compost, teas and other more &#8220;natural&#8221; methods. We have a good answer for you, but we&#8217;ve been reluctant to put this topic on blast as it&#8217;s bound to challenge some people&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Practicing Permaculture:  How We Organize &#038; Think About Our Gardens</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/06/29/practicing-permaculture-how-we-organize-think-about-our-gardens/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 18:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Space]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s talk about one of the more important concepts we&#8217;ve found about the overarching design of production focused food gardens. We&#8217;re going to talk about the concept of concentric circles. We borrow this philosophy directly from permaculture. While we, ourselves, are not strict &#8220;permaculturalists,&#8221; we aren&#8217;t shy to use good ideas to help frame our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The People Behind Frosty Garden</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/04/19/the-people-behind-frosty-garden/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Northern Living]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before we get too far into the growing season, we figure it&#8217;s appropriate to put some faces to who Frosty Garden is! In case you don&#8217;t know who we are, we are Jeff &#38; Kayde and we are the people behind Frosty Garden! As for what we do? We&#8217;re a couple of life long gardeners, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Honoring Our Fallen Gardeners, Our Advice On How To Move On</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/04/02/honoring-our-fallen-gardeners-our-advice-on-how-to-move-on/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, we&#8217;re going to go dark for a minute. Darkness is part of living and since we are purveyors of life and light, it&#8217;s only natural that we talk about the polar opposite of that. We&#8217;re not going to call out names or situations here, but more than once we&#8217;ve been called upon by those [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Growing From Seed vs. Having A Garden</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/02/22/growing-from-seed-vs-having-a-garden/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 06:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The countdown is definitely on! We&#8217;re exactly two weeks away from kicking off our 2025 growing season! So, you&#8217;re about to see us throw down a lot of seeds! As practiced from seed growers, we&#8217;ll level with you. Growing from seed is not the easiest way of going about gardening. We think it&#8217;s really important [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Favorite Tree, The Beloved Tamarack</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/10/03/our-favorite-tree-the-beloved-tamarack/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[October is definitely one of our favorite months of the year, with fall being our favorite season of the year. While we enjoy all the seasons thoroughly, fall is special because of all our harvests, the colors and its crisp (but not yet bitter cold) temperatures that we experience. For our fall celebration, we want [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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