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…
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Students Grow and Donate Over 100 Pounds of Food
Students in the Study Garden Club sort and…
Read MoreNature'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…
Read MoreSprouting 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…
Read More3 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…
Read MoreGrowing 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…
Read MoreIt'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…
Read MoreCarbon 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),…
Read MoreTomato Truck
We got out to the garden a couple of days ago, and on a whim, wheeled one of our yellow dump trucks with…
Read MoreToo 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.…
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