SOIL: THE SOUL OF LIFE By: Ted W. Mills, ARS Consulting Rosarian and Judge When I was a boy, growing up in the Deep Depression of the 30’s, my elementary school teacher assigned soil as a subject on which to write an essay. At the time I thought it to be a monumental task. Quick research revealed just the opposite. After all, we were living at a time and place where it was essential to grow one’s own food in order to survive. A small garden space provided my family the necessary area to ply agriculture. I found that writing …

ROSY RESOLUTIONS By: Ted W. Mills, ARS Consulting Rosarian and Judge The famous ball at Times Square has fallen and a New Year is with us. Let us resolve that when we make our resolutions for 2005, these will be kept with a sense of permanence. All too often the opposite result falls our lot. At the top of the list of most who make New Year’s resolutions is the resolve to lose weight. Of course we all know that obesity is still rampant in this country; perhaps more than any area on the planet. To achieve our goal in …