Designing an Herb Garden
Herbs are easy to grow as most of them are generally undemanding,…
Easy as Pie: The Myth of Simple Living
To a generation who grew up on Lassie, Little House on the…
Farmers of Fungi: Growing Mushrooms and Mycorrhizae in Your Vegetable Patch
In the last 40 years, human understanding of fungi, and their role…
Your Medicinal Garden: Ten Herbs to Plant This Spring
Come spring, the nursery catalogs will be arriving in the mail. All…
The Three Sisters Legacy: The Science Behind Companion Planting
There’s nothing quite as frustrating as having some know-it-all tell you why…
Permaculture: The Truly Sustainable Way of Life
What is Permaculture? Permanent agriculture. A system for feeding and caring for…
Bats & Guano: Gifts From the Garden Gods
Say the words feces, scat, feculence, crap, caca, and a shovel-full of…
Inside a Sharecropper’s Garden: Growing Food in the Inner-city
Birgitt Evans has been gardening since she was a child. Now a…
Ruth Stout: The No-Dig Duchess
In the early 1980s, I went to Sussex, England to study small-scale…
Grow Beyond Your Zone: Easy Hügelkultur Beds for Citrus, Olives, and More
My husband loves olives, so it was no surprise to me that…
The One-acre Orchard
The rest of the country is catching on to what homesteaders have…
8 Advantages of Hydroponics Versus Soil Gardening
A garden is both a thing of beauty and a labor of…
