Posts Tagged ‘home garden’

Planting Starts for a Winter Garden (video)

Now that the season is close at hand, have you considered growing a winter garden?

Cover Crop for the Home Garden (video)

Master Gardener Jen Aron talks about a favorite cover crop: buckwheat.

Kids and Gardening: Getting Dirty Pays

I (Lisa) grew up in northwest Arkansas, just a generation or two removed from the family farm. Although it was not the primary source of income, my grandparents and parents devoted considerable land to producing food for the family table. One of my grandfathers had a “truck patch” in addition to the family garden…literally, extra [...]

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 [...]