In the gardening world, winter is not considered the most exciting time of the year. In many places, snow covers the ground and gardeners stay indoors thumbing through seed catalogs dreaming about...
Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium) is a wonderful perennial herb that can be used medicinally or as a cut flower. The plant grows into a small bush with masses of daisy-like flowers, slightly citrus...
Hummingbirds darting here and there is quite entertaining, keeping up with refilling hummingbird feeders is sometimes not. Not only is it time consuming having to clean them, make the sugar water...
The National Young Farmers Coalition released a new guide for farmers, designed to provide an introduction to land trusts and explain the process of partnering with a land trust to access affordable...
Purslane (Portulca oleracea), also known as Pigweed, Little Hogweed or Verdolagas, is cropping up everywhere in my cultivated areas right now. Instead of viewing it as a pesky weed though, I have...
A strawberry patch can be pretty low maintenance if it is periodically kept weeded and mulched. But if left untended, your strawberry patch can become overgrown and unproductive. Luckily it’s...
Sunflowers are a staple in most home gardens and diversified farms also find value in growing them. And they are more than just for the birds (and squirrels!). Sunflower kernels are an extremely...
I like to graze in my garden. Yesterday while pulling weeds, I stopped and ate almost every single flower off a young borage plant growing at the end of a bed of carrots and peas. The flowers are...
A night blooming garden on a warm summer evening is an experience for the senses. Flowers that bloom at night tend to me more fragrant than those that bloom in daylight. In a night blooming garden...
Since you can’t eat the leaves of rhubarb, here are two ideas on how to use them–make an aphid spray or use the whole leaf to make a seedling protector! Rhubarb leaves are poisonous...