Fruit Tree Tour Teaches Kids about Sustainable Food Thanks to an organization called Common Vision, children all over California are learning about the environment by planting fruit tree orchards at…
Get GMO-Free Seeds Avoiding GMOs in your garden? Native Seed Search is a non-profit organization based in the southwest that is dedicated to preserving the area’s agricultural diversity through seed…
Why Garden? By Catherine, the Herb Lady “Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.” Orson Scott Card* The simple pleasure of growing edible vegetables, fruits and…
Urban Farming on a Different Scale Many of you know that this past January I moved out of the Urban Farm. What you may not know is that I am…
Growing to Market By Greg Peterson The main reason the Urban Farm came into existence was to grow food. Before long I found that I was growing way more food…
Bugs … In Our Gardens By Greg Peterson Garden pests … we all got ’em. The question is, what do we do about them? Over and over I have found…
8 Principles for Successful Rainwater Harvesting, Part 2 Last week author Brad Lancaster gave us the background on his journey to expertise in rainwater harvesting. This week he gives us…
8 Principles for Successful Rainwater Harvesting, Part 1 By Brad Lancaster My interest in water harvesting arose from a desire both to reduce my cost of living and to be…
