AltWeeklies Wire
Using Community Gardens to Stop Illegal Dumpingnew
The work is unglamorous by nature -- digging up waste that's been tossed aside or recklessly plopped into overgrown weeds -- but its location doesn't help any: Frankstown Avenue marks the border between Pittsburgh and Penn Hills, with each side of the street belonging to a different municipality in some places.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Adam Fleming |
06-16-2008 |
Gardening
To Food Writer Amy Trubek, Vermont Tastes Like the Futurenew
Trubek's just-released book The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir is a shot across the bow of our old system of thought and commerce. But more fundamentally, it shows how a renewed appreciation of the magic of local flavor might just save our collective bacon.
Seven Days |
Matt Scanlon |
06-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Monocropping Leads the Way to a Global Food Crisisnew
The global agriculture market is busy cooking up a recipe for disaster. World grain production is on the rise, but this cheap oversupply has put millions of farmers in developing nations out of work. Equally problematic, policy makers are increasingly directing edible calories toward biofuels and animal feed. Meanwhile, impoverished humans starve. Is home gardening an actual answer?
North Bay Bohemian |
Alastair Bland |
05-30-2008 |
Environment
Only Communal Action Can Solve Global Warmingnew
Our focus must remain not on "What Can I Do as One Person?" but rather on the tougher question of "What Can We Do as One People?"
East Bay Express |
Jay Youngdahl |
05-28-2008 |
Environment
K. Ruby is the Queen of DIYnew
Through the Institute of Urban Homesteading, she teaches city folk how to grow vegetables, can food, make wine, and other forgotten skills.
East Bay Express |
Kathleen Richards |
05-22-2008 |
Culture
Chives: A Sign of Springnew
Along with onions, garlic, and other pungent shoots and bulbs -- oddly including asparagus -- chives are part of the allium, or lily, family. Includes recipes for Chive and White Bean Hummus and Pan Roast Salmon with Chive Beurre Blanc.
Artvoice |
Joe George |
05-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
School Garden Programs Hope to Change Kids' Relationship with Foodnew
If there's a downside to teaching children how to nurture a green, nutritious school garden, it's hard to fathom. The list of touted benefits is lengthy: students reap fresh air and physical exercise, hands-on participation, awareness of the natural environment, so called "school bonding," and an unprecedented taste for raw spinach.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dina Maccabee |
04-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
Resourceful Home Brewers Grow Their Own Ingredientsnew
Growing some of the plants needed for that five-gallon batch of beer will bring new meaning to the term hand-crafted. Plus, growing your own beer ingredients is a great way to brew green.
Isthmus |
Robin Shepard |
04-14-2008 |
Food+Drink
Grassroots Lawn Carenew
How to get healthy, picnic-ready lawns without all the chemicals.
New Haven Advocate |
Betsy Yagla |
04-01-2008 |
Gardening
Tags: gardening
The Herbivore's Dilemmanew
Big on growing but short on space? Grow bountiful herb and vegetable gardens in pots.
New Haven Advocate |
Gloria F. Locke |
04-01-2008 |
Gardening
Tags: gardening
Cultivating Carnivoresnew
Don't have a green thumb? Maybe a bloody red one is for you.
Dallas Observer |
Andrea Grimes |
12-10-2007 |
Gardening
Tags: gardening
Romancing the Bee
Grappling with the unruly Humble Bumble Home inspires profound insight on the gardener/pollinator relationship.
North Coast Journal |
Amy Stewart |
09-14-2007 |
Gardening
Tags: gardening
Preparing Your Garden for Fallnew
Experience has shown that planting into the warm soil of late summer and fall provides many kinds of plants the environment they need to get well established before the cool-down.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Virginia Hayes |
09-11-2007 |
Gardening
Tags: gardening
Bringing Nature Back to Gardeningnew
Q&A with Australian native, Permaculturist Akia Chabot.
Jackson Free Press |
Adam Lynch |
08-06-2007 |
Gardening
Tags: gardening
Letting Your Garden Gonew
As growing season winds down, Chef Boy Ari pitches a fourth-quarter gameplan.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
07-19-2007 |
Gardening
Tags: gardening
