Articles tagged “Gardening”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

One Seed Chicago - And How You Can Encourage Gardening in Your Community By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Jan 11 2011 How One Seed Chicago could be a model for doing a bit of community greening in your own neighborhood. + READ MORE

Detroit's Orchids - How the Motor City Helped Preserve Endangered Orchids By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 4 2011 Detroit is home to the largest municipally-owned orchid collections in the United States -- learn about the history of the collection and how it saved endangered orchids during WWII. + READ MORE

7 Herbs for Indigestion By Care2.com IN Food & Health Dec 31 2010 If that last wafer-thin mint has you cowering on the couch and emitting noises only a mommy hog could love, you may want to try one of these natural aids for indigestion. Herbs have been used for millennia to treat any matter of ailments, and indigestion seems to be one woe that is well-suited for natural remedies. + READ MORE

Favorite Gardening Posts of 2010 By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Dec 30 2010 Here are our favorite posts about gardening from this past year. + READ MORE

Winter Gardening: Crops You Can Grow in Cold Weather By Rachel Cernansky IN Home & Garden Dec 28 2010 Just because it's cold outside--and SO snowy, if you're in the northeast--doesn't mean you can't keep up the green thumb you were developing all summer. + READ MORE

10 Great Green Gifts for the Gardeners on Your List By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Nov 30 2010 Here are ten green gift ideas for the gardeners on your list. + READ MORE

Store Your Vegetables in This Affordable DIY Root Cellar By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Nov 18 2010 Here is any easy way to store vegetables from your garden or CSA over the winter -- make your own simple root cellar! + READ MORE

Start Reading Now for a Better Vegetable Garden Next Year By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Nov 16 2010 Blogs, blog posts, and articles to help you grow a better vegetable garden. + READ MORE

Two Billion Years of Information in the Palm of Your Hand: The Seed By Mat McDermott IN Home & Garden Nov 12 2010 If you acknowledge that information isn't just a human construct (and I think you should, otherwise I wouldn't be writing this) then you have to also look for other stores of information than the anthropogenic. "Seeds can be understood in several different ways, but one of the most useful is to think of them as a medium for information storage. Like other media, they will reproduce the information they contain under some specific set of conditions; just as a DVD stores information in one form but will present it in another – for example, a movie – when you put it in a DVD player and press the start button, a seed stores information in the form of DNA." + READ MORE

10 Things to Do Now for a Better Garden Next Spring By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Oct 26 2010 Here are ten simple tasks that will result in a healthier garden next spring. + READ MORE

Essential Blogs and Books About Homesteading By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Sep 25 2010 Here are several informative, entertaining books and blogs about modern homesteading. + READ MORE

Top 10 Rookie Gardening Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Sep 24 2010 Here are ten common mistakes new gardeners make -- as well as how to avoid them. + READ MORE

How to Freeze Summer Squash By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Sep 20 2010 Here are two easy methods for freezing some of that summer squash so you can use it this winter. + READ MORE

Making Travel Meaningful, Part 3: Volunteering at Flagstaff's Arboretum By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 13 2010 As if hiking Sedona or exploring Flagstaff's historic downtown by foot weren't enough to make my sustainable Southwest adventure already alluring, its Arboretum certainly did. The breathtaking locale not only helps protect the Colorado Plateau's high-elevation, hardy and drought-tolerant native plant species (including some very rare and endangered varieties)--the Arboretum educates and inspires Flagstaff locals to go native when gardening. + READ MORE

Annabelle Explores A Green Rooftop Garden In The Bronx By Team Planet Green IN Wasted Sep 9 2010 A blog from Wa$ted's Annabelle Gurwitch: Miquela Craytor is the executive director of Sustainable South Bronx. I visited several locations, including something I never imagined existed- a beautiful waterfront park- part of the new “greenway” in the Bronx, and met... + READ MORE

15 Ways to Practice Water Conservation at Home By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Home & Garden Sep 4 2010 Water is a precious commodity, and Americans and Canadians use more water per capita than people in any other part of the world. A lot of the water we use is wasted, but you can save a lot of water between simple adjustments and water-saving fixtures and appliances. + READ MORE

Growing and Using Stevia for Natural Sweetening By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Sep 2 2010 You can grow stevia to use it as a replacement for sugar and other sweeteners. Here's what you need to know to grow this attractive, useful herb. + READ MORE

Plant Cover Crops for Healthier Soil Next Spring By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Aug 27 2010 How to plant cover crops in your vegetable garden to improve your soil. + READ MORE

Five Cool Programs Making School Lunch Better By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Aug 18 2010 School lunch may be convenient, but it sure isn't doing kids any favors, at least not the way school food options stand now. But plenty of efforts around the country are focused on improving the food available to children. + READ MORE

Deep vs. Shallow Organic, and Why Gardeners Need to Know the Difference By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Aug 13 2010 What is "deep-organic" gardening, and how does it differ from "shallow-organic" gardening? There's a huge difference -- and not all organic is created equal. + READ MORE