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 gathering seeds and starting plants indoors, looking forward to spring. Read More …
Category: Urban Gardening
Students Grow and Donate Over 100 Pounds of Food
Students in the Study Garden Club sort and weigh some of their harvest to donate to the local Read More …
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 morsels of happiness. You will put a lot of work Read More …
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 food production. Kudos to their hard work. I plan to Read More …
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 there, I immediately recognized one of the gardens as being Read More …
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 has come up with some really nice raised garden beds. Read More …
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 ended up with only two pumpkins (I cheated and staged Read More …
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), and I’m trying to focus on adding more carbon to Read More …
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 us. It made a great container for us to fill Read More …
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. That may not sound like a lot, but when each Read More …