Urban Gardening Archives - Page 4 of 5

Heirlooms To the Rescue

Here's a review I found of the book The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food by Janisse Ray. A timely topic, since many of us, right now, are…

Students Grow and Donate Over 100 Pounds of Food

Students in the Study Garden Club sort and…

Nature's Candy

Want a sweet and tasty snack that your kids might even choose over their dwindling bag of Halloween candy? Dry some apples! You will end up with chewy, unbelievably sweet…

Sprouting an Urban Farm

Hey, Fort Wayne folks! Right here in our neck of the woods, Matt and Ann Merritt are attempting to accomplish exactly what I feel like the future needs for our…

3 Sisters Soup

I'm paying homage to the 3 Sisters Garden with some FABULOUS soup! Not too long ago I posted about my visit to the beautiful homestead of FutureFarming. While I was…

Growing the Garden Season–Practical Model of a Suburban Garden

I read this article over a week ago when it was published in my local Sunday paper, and I keep thinking about it, for a few reasons: 1). This guy…

It's Pumpkin Time!

If you caught my blog post from just about a year ago, you might remember that we had a pumpkin patch. It grew from the seeds of a jack-o-lantern, and we…

Carbon Sources for Compost

I thought this was a nice chart showing some easily obtained 'brown' (carbon) material for your compost pile. I always seem to have plenty of 'green' materials (vegetable scraps, mostly),…

Tomato Truck

We got out to the garden a couple of days ago, and on a whim, wheeled one of our yellow dump trucks with…

Too many little tomatoes? Roast them.

We got a little too excited this year when planting our tomatoes. We remembered how much we loved the luscious little yellow pear tomatoes, so we planted 5 of them.…