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		<title>Cultivating a Snowdrop Garden</title>
		<link>https://artfulvagabond.com/2026/04/04/cultivating-a-snowdrop-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Snowdrops are always the first flowers to appear in my Eco-Garden. They invoke a quiet celebration, particularly after a long winter. I am always in awe of their arrival as I emerge from my hibernation and embrace the first warm rays of spring from my porch steps. I first discovered snowdrops on my lawn in... <a class="more-link" href="https://artfulvagabond.com/2026/04/04/cultivating-a-snowdrop-garden/#more-10640">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Growing a Christmas Tree: A Close Call and&#8230;.Success!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SerenaK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All five of my Christmas tree seeds have sprouted! Woo hoo!! At our 2025 Thanksgiving dinner, my cousin Jaimie gave each of us cousins kits to grow our own Christmas trees. We have been sharing our progress in a group chat and then will bring them to Christmas dinner where they will be judged on... <a class="more-link" href="https://artfulvagabond.com/2025/12/21/growing-a-christmas-tree-a-close-call-and-success/#more-10550">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Growing Your Own Christmas Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This Thanksgiving, one of my cousins launched a creative holiday challenge to each member of the family who came to our holiday gathering for dinner: Grow Your Own Christmas Tree. Jaimie gave each of us a kit that included Austrian Pine Tree seeds, a peat planting medium and a little metal planting pot. Then she... <a class="more-link" href="https://artfulvagabond.com/2025/11/28/growing-your-own-christmas-tree/#more-10517">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Seed Journeys: Telling Stories Through Plants</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SerenaK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am excited and honored to be the 2024 Artist- in-Residence at the Slate Valley Museum in Granville, NY! This residency is an experiment that will allow me to explore how my interdisciplinary Eco-Garden Project series, with community engagement that usually takes place outside in my backyard, in a neighborhood setting, can be successfully translated... <a class="more-link" href="https://artfulvagabond.com/2023/11/08/seed-journeys/#more-10208">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Message of Peace: The Mustard Seed Project</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SerenaK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 20:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Mustard Seed Project seemed quite simple in the beginning. A dried mustard &#8220;tree&#8221; from my garden prompted an exploration into how &#8220;faith the size of a mustard seed&#8221; can move mountains. But my mind quickly became cluttered with recent news on the two current wars as well as the ongoing political conflict within our... <a class="more-link" href="https://artfulvagabond.com/2023/11/01/a-message-of-peace/#more-9843">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Moving Mountains: The Mustard Seed Project</title>
		<link>https://artfulvagabond.com/2023/10/26/moving-mountains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since my recent presentation and exhibition of &#8220;The White Mulberry Project: A Silk Road Runs Through It,&#8221; I&#8217;ve been contemplating which of the 70+ species of plants discovered in my backyard I should work on next. I prefer to have the plant come to me rather than my chasing after it, so I simply stayed... <a class="more-link" href="https://artfulvagabond.com/2023/10/26/moving-mountains/#more-9828">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Event Video &#8211; The White Mulberry Project: A Silk Road Runs Through It</title>
		<link>https://artfulvagabond.com/2023/09/21/video-white-mulberry-project/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SerenaK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For those of you who missed the in-person event, &#8220;The White Mulberry Project: A Silk Road Runs Through It&#8221; in August 2023, here&#8217;s the video! Pull up a chair, brew some White Mulberry Tea and enjoy! Huge thanks to Will and Ally at W Beyer Creative who spent the day with us to film and... <a class="more-link" href="https://artfulvagabond.com/2023/09/21/video-white-mulberry-project/#more-9989">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>An Extraordinary Event! The White Mulberry Project: A Silk Road Runs Through It</title>
		<link>https://artfulvagabond.com/2023/08/28/white-mulberry-project-event/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SerenaK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 17:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What an extraordinary day! The presentation and exhibition of The White Mulberry Project: A Silk Road Runs Through It took place in my backyard &#8220;mulberry grove&#8221; last Saturday. It was supposed to rain but the sun came out (only over Whitehall, apparently) just in time for my presentation and we had the perfect weather for... <a class="more-link" href="https://artfulvagabond.com/2023/08/28/white-mulberry-project-event/#more-9956">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bombyx Mori Silk Moths: The Dreamweavers of Silk</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SerenaK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 02:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The surprising little &#8220;grove&#8221; of white mulberry trees that appeared in my backyard during a rewilding project sparked an exploration that led to the discovery of their link to the silk industry: their leaves are the primary source of food for the Bombyx mori silkworm that weaves a cocoon of the finest silk thread in... <a class="more-link" href="https://artfulvagabond.com/2023/08/10/bombyx-mori-silk-moth/#more-9748">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Monarch Sanctuary: Braiding Grass for a Milkweed Circle</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SerenaK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; I&#8217;ve been thinking about what to do with the tall grass I had allowed to grow in the backyard (which generated a fair amount of speculation in my neighborhood). It&#8217;s part of a Monarch Sanctuary I started last year when I heard monarch butterflies were on the Endangered Species List. I allowed the grass... <a class="more-link" href="https://artfulvagabond.com/2023/08/03/braiding-grass/#more-9875">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
		
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