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How to Grow Okra Microgreens
Microgreens can be used as a garnish or addition to provide great nutrients to your meals. Recently, okra joined the list of delicious microgreens. You can even grow your own at home! Okra can be grown...
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Bramble On: The Ins and Outs of Growing Raspberries
Fresh, ripe raspberries picked straight from the garden in the morning. What could be a better start to your day? According to Michael Phillips, author of The Holistic Orchard, growing your own berries...
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Becoming a Flower Farmer
Springtime is in full bloom, and along with the warm sun, fragrant blossoms, and promise of a long, fun summer often comes the edgy restlessness of spring fever. If you’re considering a drastic career...
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How to Design Swales for Optimum Water Flow
Swales are small earthen embankments used to irrigate trees, plants, and pastures. They also capture runoff to help protect soil and plants from excessive rainfall that might otherwise cause flooding...
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Not Level? No Problem. How to Build a Greenhouse on a Slope
Get your land to work with you for your plants. Is your yard uneven or sloped but you want to build a greenhouse? It may not seem like the “perfect spot,” but a sloped site for a greenhouse offers a...
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Back-to-the-Land Dreams
These days, becoming a farmer isn’t considered a “typical” career path. But for some folks, the allure of cultivating your food and owning your land seems too good to resist. These people were born to...
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October Garden Planning: 10 Tips for Success
Here in the Northeast, October signifies the true start of fall. The days are shorter, the nights and mornings are colder, the leaves are a-changin’, and the first frost is inevitably upon us. But that...
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How to Make Your Own Mulch With Fallen Leaves
As the last of the leaves fall from the trees, the time has come for countless hours of raking and hauling before the first snowflake falls. While this may be a nuisance for some, for Will Bonsall,...
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The Ultimate Guide to Sheet Mulching
Sheet mulching is a layered mulch system that nurtures the soil. You start with a biodegradable weed barrier like cardboard. From there, you build a thick, layered substrate for your garden with...
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Get a Jump on the Planting Season: Build Your Own Cold Frame
The trees are bare and the ground is cold, hard, and forbidding in New England. If you’re an amateur gardener who wants to grow your own food, it can be a little intimidating. There are plenty of hardy...
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Winter Gardening Without Heated Greenhouses
It might seem like a myth that you can grow food in an unheated greenhouse during the winter, but we’re here to prove you wrong. As long as there is sunlight, there are several techniques you can use...
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Gift Guide for Growers: 10 Great Gardening Books
Are you scrambling to find the perfect gift for the gardener on your list? How about a new book featuring insight from our expert roster of authors? From building a garden plot in the backyard to...
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How to Use Reflected Light to Boost Indoor Food Production
Growing food indoors or in an urban setting can be quite a challenge. You need to find the right kinds of plants, purchase or build tools, and make sure you have lots of time and patience. Oh, and...
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A Simple Way to Grow Fresh Greens Indoors This Winter
Just because the temperatures have started to drop doesn’t mean you have to live without fresh greens until spring. No matter what size home you live in, there’s room for a garden of soil-grown sprouts...
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Ditch the pots, use soil blocks!
What’s a cheaper, easier, and surprisingly more efficient way to start your seedlings? Soil blocks! If you’ve never used them before, read on to find out how soil blocks work, how you make them, and...
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Must Have Tools for Successful Indoor Gardening
It’s Houseplant Appreciation day! The process of producing high-quality food inside requires time and attention, along with the proper tools and accessories. But don’t worry! We’ve got you covered with...
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Presenting the Four-Season Harvest
For most gardeners, a typical season begins with planting in the spring and ends with a big harvest in the fall – one that the frugal home-gardener hopes lasts through until spring sprouts again. And...
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5 Principles of Soil Health
Soil is all around us. We walk on it every day. We dig and play and plant in it. We harvest from it and nourish ourselves thanks to it. And yet, many of us aren’t aware just how critical a resource it...
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How to Plan the Best Garden Ever
Growing your own food is hard work, but with a few easy tips you can make it a lot easier. Just ask Carol Deppe, author and gardener extraordinaire. Carol grows almost all of the food she eats, but...
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Garden Planning: 48 of the Most Promising Veggies
Before you jump into planting this year, take a step back and consider the characteristics of your land before deciding what to grow. Keep in mind that some areas get more sunlight, while others have...
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