Occasionally I guest blog on other blogs or sites. Today on GardenRant.com, the four gardening women orchestrating the Rant started a two week vacation/hiatus and will be running guest posts each day. I really appreciate they ran mine since Garden Rant is one of the premier sites about gardening. My post can be found here… [...]
Making your own compost and once it is ready, sifting it, then turning it into a rich planting medium is both economical and a nutrition boost to young plants. Rick Gush has lived in Italy since 2000 and writes about his cliff garden and other experiences in Italian urban agriculture on UrbanFarmOnline.com,
I cleaned out [...]
As more and more people convert their lawns around their homes into food producing vegetable gardens, some cities haven’t changed their zoning codes to legally allow them as Graydon Megan reports for the Chicago Tribune,
A Northbrook, Illinois woman has found a better use for her front yard than a manicured lawn. She turned it into [...]
Topher Grey reports for ChicagoReader.com,
The sun beat down on the vegetable stand on 115th Street, across from St. John Missionary Baptist Church in far south Roseland. Fresh cantaloupes, yams, and tomatoes baked in the 90-degree heat. Three volunteers, organized by church leader Donnell Williams, waited patiently for customers behind the table, sipping ice water. Sweat [...]
This piece was shot before the recent 500 million egg recall in the U.S. for salmonella contamination which has only increased interest in urban chickens…
From the sustainable architecture site Building.co.uk,
If there were a prize for the least sustainable building concept, an air-conditioned greenhouse would surely be a strong contender. Barmy as it sounds, that is what is being built in hot and humid Singapore – or rather two of them. Crazier still, the scheme is intended to be an [...]
Kerry Trueman writes on her blog EatingLiberally.com,
Stephen Budiansky, self-proclaimed “liberal curmudgeon,” has stuffed together another flimsy, flammable straw man out of boilerplate anti-locavore rhetoric on The New York Times op-ed page, with the patronizing title Math Lessons For Locavores.
It’s a familiar formula: start by establishing yourself as the voice of reason by professing your [...]
Once a community gardener has the abundant harvest from their garden right about now, they sometimes don’t know what to do with it. A mobile canning operation on bicycles is going around Eugene, Oregon to different community gardens around town, teaching people how to can their harvest as Jennifer Snelling reports for The Eugene Register [...]
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