Every year, people who choose a real Christmas tree could be bringing something into their home that's better off staying ...

There are no raspberries in our new garden! I repeat, there are no raspberries in our new garden! As someone who has spent ...

Learn how to plant bare root grapevines the right way and enjoy your own homegrown grapes for decades to come.

While bees and their remarkable raw honey generally get a lot of buzzingly good press, we often lose sight of the other amazing gifts they have to offer. Beeswax is an age-old, renewable material that ...

Don’t you love easy food? There’s something so satisfying about saying, “I made it from scratch,” and knowing that it took you all of five minutes to make. Honey-fermented ginger is like that. It’s ...

As someone who lives on the second floor of a large brick building, I know a thing or two about stifling rooms in the heat of summer. You know, the kind of heat that has you lying awake in the middle ...

The key to a low maintenance and low cost garden is to grow a variety of plants that readily self-seed. While most of the typical garden cultivars would require you to harvest, store, and then sow ...

Cardboard is certainly a welcome sight in the eye of the gardener. Often free and fairly ubiquitous, cardboard is a biodegradable and earth-friendly material that enriches as it breaks down. Cardboard ...

You take scraps from your kitchen that you’d typically throw away, mix them with microbes and air, and dry scraps from your yard that you’d normally throw away, and BOOM – you’ve made black gold that ...

People who start their plants from seed are some of the craziest gardeners. We’re even crazier than tomato-growing fanatics. And if you’re a tomato-growing fanatic who also starts their seeds? Well, I ...

Both the garden and I get a second wind in September. After the mellowness of summer months, and leisurely August pastimes, my mind craves a refocus and regroup. It’s not quite the back-to-school ...