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The Growing Demand for Organic Seed
Who owns seed? Check out the image to the left to see the seriousness of the seed monopoly, and therefore the monopoly of…
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Family Gardening
A Vegetable Growing Cheat Sheet [infographic]
SHOP for Growing Your Own Food Products in Kindred's Market Place
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By Brett Janes …
Feast Days and Potlucks
Growing up Catholic I was familiar with the term Feast Day. It was a day when certain saints were remembered. Unfortunately, I don’t remember any food feast…
Child-friendly Lawns & Garden: Ten Things You Can Do to Reduce…
Everyone who advocates connecting children with nature needs to add—“not nature sprayed with herbicides, insecticides and other pesticides.”
In November 2012…
Permaculture and the Myth of Scarcity, by Charles Eisenstein
At a conference a couple weeks ago an activist who does work in Africa recounted an encounter she had with the minister of agriculture of a certain African…
Starting Your Community’s Seed Library
In case you haven’t heard, seed libraries are fast becoming a way for you to get involved in the seed saving movement. A seed library may be located in a book…
Red Thai Roselle Hibiscus Tea: Growing Your Own
In August 2011, I was on a tour of the gardens at Acorn Community, home of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, when we came upon the hibiscus…
Eat Your Dandelions!
“You EAT them?” a little boy new to the neighborhood asks. He leans forward for the answer, his face ready to constrict in doubt.…
Winter Salad Harvesting, or, Mindlessly Growing Greens
Begin Ode to Joy...
After a long holiday season, from November and extending into January, I was worried my winter salad patch of mesclun greens would have…
Mindfully Growing Greens: From Sprout To Leaf To Smoothie!
(Photo by author of Red Russian Kale micro greens growing in her greenhouse.)
So, the White House is growing their own organic, first family garden and Jamie’s…