12/29/2022
Garlic contains a wealth of vitamins and minerals, including manganese, potassium, iron, magnesium, zinc, selenium, calcium, beta-carotene, and Vitamin C. Eat more garlic!
Teaching children, adults, families and schools how to grow their own organic food and maintain a sustainable garden.
As a mother I wanted my daughter to eat healthier. I wanted to teach her where her food came from... so we started gardening together. We are passionate about sustainable and organic gardening and teaching others how to garden too! I am an urban garden educator, Advanced Master Gardener, Master Composter, Junior Master Gardener Specialist and certified to teach Fresh From the Farm. When I'm not in
12/29/2022
Garlic contains a wealth of vitamins and minerals, including manganese, potassium, iron, magnesium, zinc, selenium, calcium, beta-carotene, and Vitamin C. Eat more garlic!
06/28/2014
Ah! Forgot about this simple way to propagate more tomato plants. Super easy!
Discover the fastest way to propagate tomato plants right in your own garden! Click: http://bit.ly/1lcf6hA
05/10/2014
The first spring harvest... Always tastes better after a long winter and a cold vortex!
04/19/2014
Some great gardening books for children!
Best Gardening Books for Kids | Adventures in Learning | PBS Parents Inch by inch, row by row, learn to make your garden grow! Browse through these seed-filled reads and explore the outdoors through books.
03/08/2014
The best 4 season gardening book... on Google books!
Four-Season Harvest If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American garde...
10/22/2013
How to attract more butterflies next spring. Thanks Gardening Jones!
Gardening Jones' Website » Planning a Butterfly Garden If you want to attract butterflies to your garden, you need to know which butterflies are local to your area, and what plants they like.
09/28/2013
A quick tip on preparing
greens.
Introducing: A Quicker Way to Cut Kale. http://bit.ly/16w8yp8
09/08/2013
Get your heirloom seeds! Here's a google list...
Off Grid Info - Food Independence - Where To Get Heirloom Seeds - Non-GMO Seeds - Organic Seeds Off Grid Info - Giant List of Where To Get Heirloom Seeds, Non GMO seeds, Organic seeds
09/01/2013
10 year old wins at growing biggest cabbage!
A 10-year-old boy has won Alaska's annual giant cabbage contest, submitting a 92.3-pound (41.9 kg) specimen named "Bob" to officials at the state fair. :-) Produce can grow to enormous sizes under Alaska's summer midnight sun.
Source: http://eideard.com/2013/09/01/ten-year-old-wins-alaskas-giant-cabbage-contest/
08/31/2013
Are you a heirloom tomato snob?
Let’s Stop Calling Them “Heirloom” Tomatoes Following up on a series of tongue-in-cheek yet educational books by contributing editor David Kamp, Vanity Fair began releasing short video entries from “The Snob’s Dictionary” earlier this summer. After putting out an episode on American International Pictures for film snobs and one on Nick Drake…
08/27/2013
Mimi Airstream garden. Sooooo cute!
READER PHOTOS! Susan's miniature gardens in California - Fine Gardening Today's photos are from Susan Clemens in Aliso Viejo, California. Susan says, "I don't have a yard (I live in a second floor condo) so I create miniature gardens as centerpieces or to sit on my desk...
08/20/2013
Are you a tomato snob?
Heirloom Tomatoes—The Snob's Dictionary S1 EP5—Vanity Fair Entry #404, Heirloom Tomatoes: Irregularly shaped, vividly colored fruits grown from the seeds of non-hybridized tomato plants, thereby standing apart from d...