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  • 5 Fall Garden Preparation and Planting Tips for the Southwest Region
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    5 Fall Garden Preparation and Planting Tips for the Southwest Region

    ByMary Crozier September 27, 2022September 28, 2022

    In many parts of the country, gardeners are preparing their gardens for a long winter’s rest. However, garden preparation and planting is just starting for the Fall and Winter here in the Southwest. Here are 5 Fall gardening tips for you to prepare and plant your garden. In this part of Arizona, our USDA Plant…

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  • Room by Room :The Hardworking Mudroom
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    Room by Room :The Hardworking Mudroom

    ByMary Crozier September 13, 2022December 19, 2023

    The mudroom is perhaps the most used, and abused room in our home.  Located right off the back door of the house, the mud room is also adjacent to the kitchen, laundry room and library. This small room has 4 doors and a back stair case up to the 2nd floor. The Before Here is…

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  • Saturday Meanderings
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    Saturday Meanderings

    ByMary Crozier August 26, 2022August 27, 2022

    Hello and Happy Saturday! I have so much to share this week and so glad you are here today. As you know, Saturday Meanderings is an opportunity to look at the week and hopefully all good things. I just returned from 6 days in Chicago moving my son and his girlfriend into their new apartment….

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  • Saturday Meanderings
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    Saturday Meanderings

    ByMary Crozier July 22, 2022July 23, 2022

    Happy sweltering Saturday! Typically we travel a lot over the summer, but there have been a few surprises with us staying closer to home this year. Normally, I stop thinking about the garden in June and let it go fallow. But this year it is still producing. Any day now I will be picking watermelon…

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  • Raising Chickens and Our Custom Henhouse
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    Raising Chickens and Our Custom Henhouse

    ByMary Crozier July 19, 2022January 15, 2024

    When we first bought our historic home, the property and house were in a terrible state of decay and disrepair. The 2 acre parcel was heavily overgrown and filled with bugs and Bark scorpions. In order to reduce the bug population, we had free range guinea hens to take care of the problem organically. I…

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Welcome to Life at Bella Terra. I’m Mary and I am delighted you are here. Life at Bella Terra is about embracing what the present can bring by valuing what the past built. Here, from our historic property, I will share decorating, entertaining, gardening tips as well as my adventures in the kitchen. Occasionally you may see a DIY but it’s only because it was a rare success! I hope that this blog will be a place of comfort and joy and together, we will learn something from each other along the way. Learn more >

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