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Four Season Growing: A Garden Cornucopianew
Now that you are either tending or contemplating a fall garden for freshly grown, organic crops, you might consider four-season farming for year-round food.
Jackson Free Press |
Jim Pathfinder Ewing |
10-01-2012 |
Gardening
Tags: Growing Vegetables
Reaping Cool-Weather Rewardsnew
Mississippi, along with the rest of the South, is blessed with a long growing season, and now is the time to plant a fall garden so that you can enjoy fresh, leafy organic vegetables often until Christmas.
Jackson Free Press |
Jim Pathfinder Ewing |
09-07-2012 |
Gardening
The Challenge of Growing Tomatoesnew
A favorite of home gardeners—urban, suburban or rural—are tomatoes.
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Staff |
08-06-2012 |
Gardening
Tags: Growing Tomatoes
Gardening 2.0new
A new app makes growing food easy-peasy.
Seven Days |
Kirk Kardashian |
05-14-2012 |
Gardening
Tags: gardening apps, GardenMinder
Vegetable Gardening for Dummiesnew
You don't need fancy equipment or gardening expertise to grow your own food.
East Bay Express |
Linnea Due |
05-10-2012 |
Gardening
Tags: gardening, growing vegetables
How to Rid Your Yard of Molesnew
Some folks think moles are cute. And, well, they kind of are with their squinty little eyes, oversized paws, and long snouts. But for others, especially homeowners in the Lowcountry, they're terrible, tiny pests capable of wreaking havoc on a lawn.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
01-02-2012 |
Gardening
Tags: Lawn Care, Getting Rid of Moles
The Urban Agricultural Phenomenonnew
What happens when idealists, entrepreneurs and bureaucrats all latch onto the same trend?
Philadelphia City Paper |
Isaiah Thompson |
05-04-2010 |
Gardening
Tags: Urban Gardening
5 Tips for Gardening in Small Spacesnew
According to gardening expert Elizabeth Peirce, if you follow these five tips you don’t need a lot of space or experience to make that green stuff grow.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Elizabeth Peirce |
04-16-2010 |
Gardening
Tags: Urban Gardening
Dallas Acts Like it Supports Community Gardens, but That's Not the Real Truthnew
City officials adamantly deny they harbor any anti-organics bias and say they are committed to moving the entire city closer to organic methods of land management. But longtime local garden advocates insist City Hall has never given them anything but the back of the hand, beginning years before the recent spike in interest.
Dallas Observer |
Jim Schutze |
10-19-2009 |
Gardening
Why Has NYC Gone Crazy For Coleus?new
A bounty of new varieties have given new life to the Disco Era's favorite potted plant, and New York has taken notice.
North Coast Journal |
Amy Stewart |
07-16-2009 |
Gardening
What the Cluck? Urban Chicken Raising Gets Hipnew
Does simplifying agricultural traditions -- and contracting out the unpleasant aspects of rural life -- make the desire for a slice of the country in the city any less genuine? Most would say no and that it takes more than Google to learn how to properly kill a chicken.
Boise Weekly |
Tara Morgan |
07-08-2009 |
Gardening
My Worm Compost Bin Produces a Great Garden ... and a Clear Consciencenew
Why would anyone willingly keep hundreds of worms in her kitchen? Because the United States produces more than 30 million tons of organic waste each year, and when that material ends up in either the incinerator or the landfill, it creates far more problems than benefits.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Rachel Hutton |
07-08-2009 |
Gardening
DIY: Raised Garden Bednew
This summer, we chose to plant a variety of bell peppers, squash, tomatoes and herbs in a raised garden bed. Here’s how to do it.
Jackson Free Press |
Melia Dicker and Darren Schwindaman |
06-26-2009 |
Gardening
Denver's Urban Gardeners Are Digging Their Backyard Farmsnew
There's a lot of learning to do when it comes to backyard farming, and it's something more and more people are learning to do.
Tags: Urban Gardening
Sowing the Future: International Seed Saving Daynew
Just as farmers in the developing world are facing challenges to their old way of cultivation, so are those in the developed world. With more and more of the seed for our major food crops being developed and sold by fewer and larger companies, the loss of diversity is just as troublesome here.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Virginia Hayes |
02-02-2009 |
Gardening
