No Mow May—Support Organic Habitat
(Beyond Pesticides, May 2, 2022) Lawns occupy 40 million acres, or 2% of the land in the U.S. Their maintenance typically involves pesticides and fert...
Cool-Season Vegetable Varieties
Cool-season vegetables are for planting and growing in late winter, early spring, or in late summer, autumn, and early winter. These crops do best in ...
My Bookazine, Growing Fresh Food & Herbs Using Permaculture Methods, Has Been Published!
In this comprehensive, practical gardening guide, we’ll show you the easiest ways to produce brilliant, bountiful harvests with less effort and cost...
Plant Grow Harvest Repeat – by Meg McAndrews Cowden
The cover of Plant Grow Harvest Repeat (Timber Pres $24.95) already tells us what we have in store. There is information about succession planting t...
Hellebores – A Surprise and Delight
I allowed all our blown leaves to cuddle with the hellebores I planted in bloom last spring. I appreciated the protection given by the leaves, but I w...
Pruning with with Sara-Evelyn of Broadfork Permaculture
Sara-Evelyn Lane of Broadfork Permaculture came to prune my young Redbud tree, as well as giving us advice about other plants like my paniculata hydra...
Soap Uses in Home and Garden
We have brought you some amazing Soap Uses in Home and Garden to make your daily chores easier! Read on our all-inclusive article for details! Try out...
One-Acre Permaculture Garden Feeds 50 Families
One-acre garden provides fruit, veggies and eggs for 50 families with very little labor More and more people are learning growing food doesn’t have ...
up the wall
Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, your popular host, Mani the purebred border collie, here today to let you know just how ...
The Definitive Guide on How to Compost Everything from the Garden and Kitchen
Just about everything can be composted using cold (slow) composting, hot (fast) composting, worm farms (vermicomposting), bokashi composting and Hüge...
A Birthday Walk in the County Roads
Dear Readers, it was my birthday on Thursday, and so I decided to take myself for a celebratory walk around the County Roads in East Finchley. I do lo...
How to Grow Heirloom Beans
If you’ve been wondering how to grow heirloom beans, you’re not alone! Beautiful, colorful heirloom beans are making a massive comeback. Not only ...
One Pretty Pumpkin, Warts and All
The big, warty salmon-pink pumpkin surprised me when it appeared in my community garden plot this year. I couldn’t remember planting the seed. I mus...
“How dry I am “: Four types of drought and how they can affect gardeners and gardens
Linda’s post last week about “drought-resistant” plants made me think about drought and how different types of drought affect gardeners in diffe...
12 Inspiring Backyard Fire Pit Ideas
Eons ago, fire was one of humankind’s most life-altering discoveries, so it’s no wonder that even today, we find comfort around the warm glow of a...
Plant lists that shouldn’t exist
Nothing drives me crazier than simplistic solutions to complex problems. Given our changing climate, there has been an explosion of “drought toleran...
Making a List, Checking It Twice | Letter from the Editor
Are gardeners notoriously hard to buy gifts for? My husband would say, “Absolutely.” I would argue the opposite. Grab me a gift certificate to a l...
Permaculture, Land, and Land Access
This episode starts the series on Permaculture, Land, and Land Access. I wanted to explore this topic because I’m currently landless and the opportu...