It's Pumpkin Season! How to Grow Our Favorite Fall Food
It’s Pumpkin Season! How to Grow Our Favorite Fall Food By Kari Spencer At the close of a long hot summer, the arrival of the pumpkin heralds the welcome arrival…
Growing Culinary Herbs
Growing Culinary Herbs By Kari Spencer Do you say “herb,” “erb,” or perhaps “yerba?” No matter how you pronounce it, an herb is not just any plant! Herbs are useful…
Sheet Mulching with Greg Peterson
Sheet Mulching with Greg Peterson Building healthy soil is one of the biggest challenges in growing healthy food. Healthy soil is a balanced mix of: dirt, which contains minerals…
China’s Polluted Land… Our Polluted Food
China’s Polluted Land… Our Polluted Food By Greg Peterson I am continually on the lookout for valuable data to share in our Urban Farm Lifestyle Newsletter. In doing this, I…
Digging into Aquaponics: #1 -The Plants
Digging into Aquaponics Pt. 1: The Plants By Sylvia Bernstein IntroAquaponics growing environments can be home to a huge variety of plants. I’ve grown just about everything you can imagine,…
Skeleton Leaves No More: Permaculture’s Simple Secret for Banishing Pests
Skeleton Leaves No More:Permaculture’s Simple Secret for Banishing Pests By Greg Peterson So I am standing in my yard looking at my grapevine and some of the leaves have been…
The Micro Farm Project: Q&A With Urban Farmer Kari Spencer
The Micro Farm Project: Q&A With Urban Farmer Kari Spencer What is The Micro Farm Project? The Micro Farm Project is a family-owned urban farm and informational outreach in the…
Questions From You: Squash Isn't Squashing
Questions From You: Squash Isn’t Squashing David asked: I have a small backyard garden and I am trying to grow zucchini squash and yellow crooked neck squash, however I can’t get…
Aquaponics? I Just Want To Raise Some Fish
Aquaponics? I Just Want To Raise Some Fish By Greg Peterson For whatever reason when I came into this world I was very fascinated with fish. I liked pretty much…
Refreshing My Tower Garden
Refreshing My Tower Garden By Greg Peterson I have said it before…I LOVE my Tower Garden. Just what is a Tower Garden? It is an uber cool hydroponic growing system…
