RECIPE: Arugula Pesto Grilled Cheese
Arugula Pesto Grilled Cheese From Guest blogger: Katie Critchleyof The Farm at Agritopia Listen to her podcast HERE This sandwich, while being truly one of the best grilled cheese sandwiches,…
Volunteer squash, melon, and gourds
Bonus surprises from soil experiments By Janis Norton. – What happens when you experiment in your yard? For me and my Two Peace in a Pod Urban Farm, it is an amazing bonus crop of pumpkins, squash, watermelons, sunflowers, and onions! For last several seasons, I have not been ready to do any serious new garden work since I was busy with work, and as a result…
RECIPE: Nectarine-Cherry Jam
Nectarine-Cherry Jam by Guest blogger: Sara Woltersof Pomona’s Pectin Listen to her podcast HERE Nectarines are my absolute favorite summer fruit. We developed this recipe to capture the intense flavor…
How to Grow Tomatoes from Side Shoots
How to Grow Tomatoes from Side Shoots by Guest blogger: Jason Johnsauthor of Growing Tomatoes: Your Guide to Growing Delicious Tomatoes at Home Listen to his podcast HERE Indeterminate or…
Aquaponics: The Gateway from STEAM Learning into the Workforce
The gateway from STEAM learning into the workforce . By Guest Blogger: Jill Shea. –
Grow Buckets
Several years ago, I started my adventure with wicking garden beds. I found the concept powerful and wondered, how can I use this concept in a different way? I consulted the internet and found a few good ideas, but not quite what I wanted. I needed something I thought might stand up to the unrelenting summer heat of Phoenix, Arizona and produce a nice vegetable harvest. I came up with this design of a grow bucket.
Following an Unexpected Path
By Guest Blogger Christine Heinrichs: John Lennon said, “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.” In my case, it was chickens that happened. Growing up in New York’s suburbs, I was a suburban kid who didn’t know any chickens. I was an adult, a single mother raising a daughter, when I settled on…
The Six Week Greenhouse
By Guest Blogger: Joel Karsten – For northern gardeners, starting vegetable plants as early as possible is key to a productive and successful food garden, since sometimes it seems we only have about a three-week growing season! That might be a slight exaggeration, but certainly gardening in the north is challenging. One of the key advantages of the Straw Bale Gardening method is…
What’s Eating My Garden?? An Epic Adventure with a Twist at the End!
By Guest Bloggers: Jim & Roxanne Malinski – We live in southeast Chandler, AZ in a neighborhood established 20 years ago. Last year in mid-September (2018) we planted romaine lettuce, curly kale, rainbow blend carrots (all seed) and six small broccoli plants in my vegetable garden (raised 6’x12’ plot). Within a couple weeks everything was…
Food Insecurity
By Guest Blogger: Laurie Ouding, RN – Chicago’s population of 2.7 million consists of numerous neighborhoods, varying greatly in income levels and subsequently, the health of its citizens within those neighborhoods. Food inequity in areas often referred to as food deserts, bring a plethora of health related…
