gardening

Designing Modular Garden Blocks For Raised Beds

What’s it take to turn an initial idea into a finished commercial product? For Doug Holcomb, and two fellow classmates, it was …

Spring is a good time to plant buckwheat as a cover crop. Cover crops are a variety of plants that are grown prior to planting …

September 08, 2011 Here I am working on replacing my lawn with edibles and along comes this nifty idea: a front yard chicken coop. …

July 21, 2011 Another kind of swap has popped up - and it's one I think many communities could easily embrace: a crop swap! People …

More people are growing their own food this year, many for the first time. When I started gardening, I found it helpful to start …

March 03, 2011 This question has popped up on occasion when trying to define certain subjects in the past such as 'backyard …

February 17, 2011 There are many people behind the scenes who quietly go about growing/producing wholesome food and doing what …

January 28, 2011 The last Saturday in January is National Seed Swap Day, which for 2011 is tomorrow, January 29th. Several …

Lon Rombough, author of The Grape Grower: A Guide to Organic Viticulture shares his passion for plants and growing grapes; a …

January 05, 2011 Author and blogger Jill Richardson recently returned from a trip to southern Mexico where she lived with the …