Don’t forget flowers in your garden; this year, nasturtiums and salvia are growing wild in our yard. They attract bees and hummingbirds, add color, and bring calm to your morning routine.
My garden is about 10 days old, and it is already starting to thrive. Some mishaps have occurred along the way–one eggplant seedling got a little overwatered, and the squirrels have dug up a few areas, but overall the farm is doing well.
Triscuit now partners with Urban Farming, an NGO that aims to create food for people in underserved areas by planting farms on unused land and space. The goal is to involve residents including youths and seniors to improve their community–and counter hunger–in poor neighborhoods.
This is the third consecutive year that I have planted a garden in our backyard. The benefits to gardening are many: exercise, Vitamin D from the sun, controlling what you eat, and developing an ecosystem in your own backyard.
Windowfarms’ founders created a web platform that encourages anyone to design gardening systems suited for local conditions. Started in New York, the project repurposes plastic bottles for window gardens that provide food for apartment dwellers.
Please join us late Sunday afternoon, October 3, 5:30pm, at Parkman Triangle for some acoustic guitar music by musician Billy Gill, and who, is also an outstanding yoga instructor. We want to raise awareness of the micro-park while also showcasing young local talent
All is not lost in the Motor City. A Michigan State University study suggests that the 5000 acres of vacant land could provide Detroit’s residents about 70% of the vegetables and 40% of the fruit that they need. Could a new version of Facebook’s Farmville be on the way???
While I was in Amsterdam for the GRI Conference in May, I met Katarzyna Dulko, a freelance journalist who is also a sustainability manager for a leading European conglomerate. I thought I’d ask her to share her interests—in some ways she is like a Polish Rachel Carson.
April Fool! The White House Scrambles to Explain how M.O. Used Jacqueline Kennedy’s Gloves Word at JFK’s Inauguration The White House was caught reeling over the revelation that Michelle Obama, who expanded the White House vegetable garden this year, did so at the expense of wearing Jacqueline Kennedy’s gloves, worn at her husband’s 1961 [...]
Forgive me. I have been wanting to truncate my postings for my email subscribers, so I’m testing Feedburner to be sure this works. So today’s first blurb is on my second annual spring garden, which I planted last week. Last year I tried planting just about everything you could find everything in the produce section, [...]