For many years, I taught gardening to inner-city high school students in Washington, D.C. We used the school grounds and derelict school greenhouses to...
Gardening & Homesteading
Whether you tend a little patch of tomatoes, or are striving to produce most of the food for your family, here you’ll find articles about organic gardening, organic pest control, food preservation, permaculture, homesteading, and more.
Fall is the time to plant garlic. Garlic is ridiculously easy to plant and care for. It tastes great, looks beautiful, and takes up so little space that even...
With the exception of asparagus, rhubarb and artichokes, most gardeners are unaware of the tasty, nutritious bounty that perennial vegetables can offer.
Today, seeds are bred in only one of three very different ways: 1) in an open pollinated environment, 2) through a hybrid cross, and 3) through genetic...
Monsanto is a company no gardener should want to support, even accidentally. Here is where to buy non GMO seeds, and why it is so important.
Most Americans think that miles of machine-planted row crops and crowded feedlots are required to feed everyone—that without large-scale, industrial...
If you have been seeing small flies or gnats in your kitchen, they’re probably fruit flies. In the high heat of summer, with a bounty of fresh summer...
Just as the weather starts to warm up for the summer, fungi, blights and other plant diseases can take hold in your garden and quickly wipe out your crops...
Fungus gnats and damping-off can stymie even the most seasoned gardeners and seriously affect the success of growing seedlings. But the solution to these...
Kohlrabi looks like an organic, green space alien, with a taste like fresh, crunchy broccoli stems, with a hint of radish. The name kohlrabi comes from the...
Autumn is an optimal time to plant trees. As mundane as it may seem compared to solar panels and hybrid cars, planting trees is one of the most powerful and...
The technology we need to thrive in a future without petroleum is not waiting to be discovered in some laboratory somewhere, it is right here working in...
