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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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Perennial Power: Why You Need Them in Your Garden
Keeping up with a garden can be a lot of work—especially when you start planning for the upcoming season. Luckily, there’s a secret (okay, maybe not so secret) weapon you can use to take away some of...
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Simple Recipes Using Homegrown Sprouts
Having a lack of outdoor greenspace doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy homegrown fresh food. Sprouts are a quick, simple, and ridiculously healthy way to keep your localvore appetite satisfied, no matter...
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A Gardening Tip: Pinching Flowers to Prolong Bloom, When and How
Flowers are starting to bloom again! To get the most out of your flowers this year, try pinching them. This may sound simple enough but there’s more to this trick than you might think. The following...
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A Taoist Approach to Gardening
In her book The Tao of Vegetable Gardening, Carol Deppe introduces her innovative “Eat-All Greens Garden” which could be the easiest, most space-saving, and labor-efficient way of growing greens. With...
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Interplanting and Beyond
Permaculture is more than just a way to garden, it applies systems-thinking to every facet of our relationship to the earth and each other. The three main ethics of permaculture are care for the...
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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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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 grow your own at home! Okra can be grown...
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Drill, Plug, Wax, Wait: Four Easy Steps to Growing Mushrooms Outdoors
Grow your own mushrooms outdoors with this simple four step tutorial from Tradd Cotter, author of Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation. All you need is a log, some mushroom starter, and a...
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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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Designing an Efficient Garden: Permanent Beds
Permanent beds are going to change your gardening game. Jesse Frost, author of The Living Soil Handbook, walks you through the process of creating the most efficient garden by looking at the bed width...
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Caring For Your Plants: The Five Keys to Photosynthesis
There is more to growing than just the basics of sunlight and water. In fact, there are five important factors in determining how well your plants or crops will do: sunlight, carbon dioxide, water,...
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Bokashi Bins: Easy and Affordable Kitchen Composting
Looking for a new way to compost? We have an answer: the bokashi kitchen composter! With a Bokashi bin, the organic matter from your compost is broken down by specific microorganisms and turned into a...
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5 Activities for Summer Vacation Fun
The kids are out for the summer and that means long empty days that need to be filled. When you find yourself in the lull between beach trips and summer camp, try some of our authors’ best kid-friendly...
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It’s Raining, It’s Pouring, the Rain Garden is Growing
With temperatures rising and the summer heat in full swing, your plants and crops need as much water as they can possibly get. What better way to do that than building your own rain garden? Rain...
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The Art and Joy of Collecting Seeds
It all starts with a seed. When ecological gardening, you transform your garden into a self-sustaining haven for nature and wildlife. As your garden grows and thrives, inevitably you will accumulate...
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9 Books for Backyard Gardeners
Are you looking for the perfect book to give the gardener in your life? (Or yourself?) If so, you’re in the right place! Our backyard gardening roundup is your one-stop-(book)shop for all gardeners;...
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This Summer, Take On Some New DIY Projects
Summer is a time to be outside and enjoying the much needed sunshine. And what’s more fun than creating something yourself? There isn’t anything like the satisfaction of completing a new project that...
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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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10 Easy-to-Grow Flowers for Pest Control
It’s difficult to know what flowers are best for your garden and even then, which flowers are easy to care for. Some flowers, like Dandelions and Sunflowers, are incredibly easy, as long as you have...
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