A backyard flower and vegetable garden in Greencastle, Indiana
The Featured Garden series presents weekly editor's picks of gardens from YourGardenShow.com.
Located in Greencastle, Indiana, A Gypsy Garden is three gardens in one - producing veggies for the kitchen, flowers for cuttings and food for butterflies.
The Featured Garden series presents weekly editor's picks of gardens from YourGardenShow.com.
Located in Chicago, Illinois, the Artist-Run Urban Apartment Container Farm is a green-filled deck garden utilizing creativity to grow plants in a small space.
The “Garden Variety Native Bees of North America” perpetual calendar is both a guide to some of our more common native bees and a gardening calendar that never goes out of date. This month's featured calendar bee is Osmia lignaria (Mason Bee).
Spring is indeed a time of renewal and fresh starts and, for the founders' family, it also heralds exciting possibilities. This year the founders' garden will get a new name, new farm hands and new life as they endeavor to grow out their small farm in Umbria, Italy, with over 100 plant varieties.
In the building of hardscapes, such as parking lots, sidewalks or outdoor patios, due consideration of trees in the landscape is needed to prevent damage or even death. Robert Kourik offers some guidelines to allow for the adequate space needed for root growth near hardscape areas.
Engaging activities are key to getting kids, particularly teenagers, excited about the garden. A discovery I made working with youth in a summer program on local farms and in school gardens. In this blog series I will detail some fun and easy garden activities that have been tested in the field and kid approved.
Citizens will be paying homage this weekend and on Monday, January 16, 2012, to one of our greatest Civil Rights leaders, Martin Luther King Jr. Here are some MLK Jr. Gardens, Parks and Memorials from across the country that you might consider visiting in honor of Dr. King.
Sheet compost before snow falls then sit back & let nature improve your soil
Guest Blogger - Robert Kourik
Robert Kourik reveals how to improve the soil during the winter without digging by using sheet composting. Sheet composting refers to the use of thin layers of compostable material laid out over the soil like a thick mulch.
Citywide initiative offers training, grants & more to 1,600 schools
Grow to Learn's School Garden Coordinator, Erica Keberle, talks with us about the Grow to Learn initiative in New York City and how the organization is working to sustain and support school gardens that will engage students in active learning.
A Family Reflects on the Rewards & Challenges of Growing All Their Own Food
Guest Blogger - Rachel B.
In early September of 2010 my husband and I had this crazy idea about giving up the grocery store. We felt that we just couldn't trust the food available anymore and we wanted to buy directly from farmers. Being complete gluttons for punishment we decided that for the last 3 months we wouldn't buy any food at all and rely entirely on what we raised, grew and already had on our shelves.
Chicago's Garfield Park Conservatory Races Against Nature to Repair Damage from Storm
Six weeks ago Chicago's Garfield Park Conservatory, one of the largest conservatories in the United States, often referred to as "landscape art under glass," incurred extensive damage from a hailstorm that battered the glass roofs of four major plant rooms.
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