Guest post by Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson from Scavenging.
This year we’re taking a vow: We will try to grow at least half of our food in a garden that costs us absolutely nothing to create and maintain. In order to achieve this goal, we are initiating a new concept: No-cost gardening.
Home-grown food is [...]
Dear EarthTalk: I want to start an organic vegetable garden in my yard and I would like to know how to combine crops to make better use of time and space.
Most commercial farms concentrate on growing a few select crops to supply a wide variety of customers, but gardening at home is a different [...]
“Green” may be the new buzzword, but when it comes to gardening, eco-friendly techniques have been around for years. Here are four simple, inexpensive methods that can turn your garden into a model of green efficiency.
1. Watch the way you water.
As the mercury rises, so will your water bill this summer if you spend hours [...]
Now this is something that every school in America should get involved with! The Edible Schoolyard provides urban public school students with a one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom. Using food systems as a unifying concept, students learn how to grow, harvest, and prepare nutritious seasonal produce. It is a program at Martin [...]
