organic gardening

Keep Your Green Thumb from Going Brown this Fall

As Summer is a drawing to a close, and the leaves on the trees are about to burst into a parade of colors, here are some tips for maintaining your green thumb throughout Fall.

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Radical Simplicity

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” —Albert Einstein When the continuous operation of a system relies on a long and complex chain of crucial suppliers and resources, all running smoothly, that’s pretty much a textbook example [...]

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Dandelion: Much More than a Lawn Menace

Many wild plants and “weeds” are some of the most nutrient-dense greens you can eat. It is only in the past 100 or so years, as our food system became more and more industrialized, that wild superfoods dropped out of our diet. So I try to include them in mine when I can. This past [...]

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Arugula-Ready Recipes

The cool weather greens are just starting to come ready for harvest here, and this week both my garden and my CSA box have plenty of arugula with which to make salads and other delights. Arugula is a very nutritious, leafy green vegetable with an unusual spicy flavor. Arugula is high in vitamins A, C [...]

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You Can Fix All the World’s Problems in a Garden

This extremely inspiring, 5-minute video demonstrates how Permaculture gardening practices can be used to desalinate soils just a mile away from the Dead Sea in the Jordanian desert—restoring them to life and food productivity without the use of chemical fertilizers, heavy irrigation or tilling. If we can heal the land and bring life back to [...]

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Raw Eggplant Ravioli

Eggplants are ready for harvest in the garden, and they are making their appearance in my CSA box too. Eggplants are beautiful, relatively easy vegetables to grow and delicious, diversely nutritious vegetables to eat.

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