Posts Tagged ‘garden’

Alan Kapuler: Man of Science, Ideas, and Humanity part 2 (video)

Alan Kapuler: Man of Science, Ideas, and Humanity part 2 (video)

Alan Kapuler is well-educated in a formal academic sense, and also from a lifetime of work planting, breeding, and cataloging his vast collection of open pollinated seeds.

Seed Resources for Garden Planning

Seed Resources for Garden Planning

January 25, 2011 You ever notice the fervor in the air this time of year when it comes to seeds? Seed catalogs in hand, calendar at the ready, and garden plans ready to be filled out with the potential new harvest. It’s an exciting time of the year for any food grower, and watching recent [...]

White House garden ‘ex-seeds’ expectations

January 16, 2010 From growing fresh food to opening minds to new ways of thinking to starting conversations, First Lady Michelle Obama has cultivated something special from the White House Garden. A look back at some of the benefits. h/t @plantweb Go to Original Post…

Failure to Cultivate: A Response to Caitlin Flanagan on School Gardens

January 12, 2010 Well thought out with good points made in response to Atlantic Journal post yesterday, How school gardens are cheating our most vulnerable students. Chef Kurt Michael Friese, owner and publisher of Edible Iowa River Valley, writes about the importance of school gardens and what children may learn from doing so. “There is [...]

The Backyard Homestead-Book Review

The Backyard Homestead-Book Review

Put Your Backyard to Work! It is amazing to me the resources that are now available to those of us who want to do more with our backyards then just have the perfect lawn. The Backyard Homestead, edited by Carleen Madigan is just the primer you need to get started on turning that boring old [...]