Organic Gardening

Repurpose, Regrow, and Recycle – Food Waste Edition

April 25, 2017 by Tyler Ardizzone
Last updated on: April 25, 2017

In the United States, there are 6.3 million households with very low food security and over half a million people without shelter. And yet, one out of every four calories intended for human consumption is never actually eaten. More than… [read]

Eating Edible Flowers

April 12, 2016 by Natalie Miller
Last updated on: April 16, 2016

The culinary use of edible flowers is not a recent trend; it can be traced back thousands of years to the Greeks, Romans, and Chinese. Flowers were traditionally incorporated into many various cuisines –from Asian and East Indian to European,… [read]

Herbs With Healing Properties You Can Grow at Home

December 3, 2015 by Natalie Miller
Last updated on: December 3, 2015

Growing herbs in your home is not only easy, it is highly recommended. This is especially true if you are growing them for medicinal purposes. Although you can buy herbs, you won’t know how the plants were raised or how… [read]

5 Cost-Effective Ways To Home Container Gardening – DIY

July 20, 2015 by Eva Gono
Last updated on: July 22, 2015

Container gardening allows you to anyone to garden at home without the need of a big, spacious area. You can set up your garden on your patio, balcony, deck, porch or inside your home, anywhere you like as long as… [read]

How to Make Your Own Compost Tea

May 14, 2015 by Ali Lawrence
Last updated on: June 3, 2015

If you’re still using plain old compost, you’re living in the past. These days gardeners are raving about the wonders of compost tea. Compost tea is liquid gold for plants; it fertilizes and suppresses diseases. This liquid fertilizer is relatively… [read]

Five Common Weeds to Cultivate for Health and Nutrition

April 23, 2015 by Lara Colley
Last updated on: June 3, 2015

Much of the work we do as gardeners involves pulling weeds, and many of us can attest that this is not our favorite part. The good news is that there are many common garden weeds you can leave right where… [read]

Can Progressive, Cutting-edge Organic Agriculture Feed Everyone?

January 6, 2015 by Joel Edwards
Last updated on: June 3, 2015

Change We Can Believe In In 2007, then presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that if elected he would direct more money for organic agriculture. He also said, “If I am elected president of the United States, I will support legislation… [read]