Disaster Prep Tips For Green Families
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Committed To Saving Seeds: An Interview With Dirt to Dinner
One of my favorite gardens to visit is From Dirt to Dinner located in San Jose California. The garden’s curator, Julianne Idleman will be sure to show us all how to take the lawn out of the yard and grow food in its stead. Growing both in front and back of her home and everywhere…
Sustainable Agriculture and Gardening Made Simple
To better understand sustainable agriculture in its most simplistic terms we can divide the Agricultural Growing Methods into 3 types of farming practices Conventional Growing Method First, there is conventional farming that relies on the heavy use of synthetic chemicals fertilizers. Without them, nothing would grow. The soil has become void of any beneficial properties…
Heirloom Melons Make A Teaching Garden In Texas
This little personal size cantaloupe really caught my eye this summer. I can still hear heirloom grower Ruth Hardy when I asked her if it was worth growing again. As I heard the excitement come over her, she exclaimed, “TONS OF SEED saved! I ate a very ripe one today, OMGoodness! it was something in…
Gardening For Children In Tunnels Of Heirloom Pinto Snap Beans!
Gardening for children means so much more than playing in the pole bean tunnels. Although how can gardening get any more fun than this! I think that Grandson Bradley will always remember gardening with his Grandfather, Tom Meade in this special Virginian Heirloom Garden! What do you think? The Pinto Snap Bean growing is a…
Ringing In The Heirloom Peppers With Christmas Bells In Hawaii
How could any gardener not be totally captivated by an Heirloom Garden in Maui Hawaii? It was here that I found myself totally charmed by grower Jane Sperr and all of her exquisite and rare heirlooms. Like most heirloom gardeners across America, we find ourselves with limited information and resources for growing information in our…
Pumpkin Carving Safety Tips
You daringly dashed out, kids in tow, to the pumpkin patch this year and proudly hauled your pumpkin loot home. Now, what is the next natural step but to carve away! Right? Hold it! You want Halloween to be filled with fake gore, not real severed fingers. Before you break out the candles and knives,…
Natural From The Garden: Loofah Sponge Gourds
I often think on our Native Americans and all the uses they had for different types of gourds. Gourds date back centuries throughout the world. Most of them require warm and even tropical growing conditions from countries such as Africa, South American, Asia and India just to name a few. So how did so many…
Take The 3 Step Challenge To Chemical Free Gardening
“The 3 Step Challenge is designed to get you well on your way to a chemical free Garden. Chemical free gardening is all about nature. The goal for every natural gardener is to bring nature back into balance. As this happens harmony will begin to replace the chemicals.” ~ Pamela Kimsey How we approach natural…
7 Ways to Go Green in the Kitchen Without Breaking the Bank
You do not need to start a worldwide foundation to help out our Mother Nature. There are small but powerful ways you can make a difference in the comfort of your own home. However, sometimes we think it’s expensive to “go green” and involves a lot of work. Sure, we’d all like to help out…