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Six Principles to Follow When Starting on an Autoimmune Diet
Inspired by a combination of his work treating patients with autoimmune disease and working in his garden, Dr. Cowan has developed six principles to help patients create healthy, natural diets. He...
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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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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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A Meditation on Garden Weeding
Gardening takes hard work and it may slip your mind to take a moment, step back, and look at all you’ve accomplished. You might just come across some new ideas to improve your garden. Author Carol...
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10 Herbs for Family Health
Growing your own healthy herbs in the backyard is a great alternative to over-the-counter cold and first aid medicine. Not only can these plants help with general wellness on a daily basis, but also...
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A Drink Only a Garden Could Love: Fermented Plant Juice
Everyone loves a refreshing, fermented, nutritious drink… even your garden! Take your fermentation skills out of the kitchen and into the garden by brewing fermented plant juice. This garden amendment...
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Turn Barren Soil into Black Gold: 9 Simple Steps to Sheet Mulching
If you want to turn a barren lot into a permaculture paradise, you’ve got to start from the ground up. Sheet mulching is an easy way to start. You start with a biodegradable weed barrier like...
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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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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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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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9 Books for Your Favorite Backyard Gardener
Are you looking for the perfect book to give the gardener in your life? If so, you’re in the right place! Our backyard gardening roundup is your one-stop-(book)shop for all the gardeners on your list;...
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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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Start Your Own Medicinal Herb Garden with These 3 Herbs
Are you looking to start your own medicinal herb garden? Then you’ve come to the right place! These three herbs – passionflower, lemon balm, and goldenseal – are not only jam-packed with medicinal...
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6 Tips and Tricks for Indoor Gardening
Whether you are craving a fresh harvest during the winter or don’t have an outdoor gardening space, you can grow fresh greens in your own indoor garden. The good news: Plants don’t require a whole lot...
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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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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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Grow Your Own Veg—How to Start Plants from Seed
Starting plants from seed does not have to be difficult or time-consuming. Sure, it will take you a season or two to get the hang of it, but after that, the process will feel simple. To get started,...
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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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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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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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