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Saturday, June 27th 9am to 5pm
Smart Gardening Fair, Scotts Valley, CA
www.smartgardening.org
Fruits, Food, and Fire: sustainable landscapes that keep you and your home Fire Safe.
A rich abundant landscape gives back to you with tasty organic fruits and vegetables but also can save your home from the threat of wildfires. Learn how the principles of good gardening [...]
For reducing the amount of waste you send to the landfill, composting—in addition to reducing the amount of packaged goods you consume, and recycling as much as possible—is essential if you have the means to do it properly. And if you’re a gardener, there’s no reason to throw away this beneficial (and cheap!) source of [...]
The following is an excerpt from Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, Second Edition by Toby Hemenway. It has been adapted for the Web.
Every home has a handy rainwater collection system built right into it: the roof. Rainwater splashes on rooftops, drips into the gutters, sluices through downspouts, and then goes … away, usually [...]
By Barbara Damrosch, published Thursday, April 7, 2009 in The Washington Post Crisp, crunchy, tangy, zippy, zesty, snappy, peppy, pungent, piquant and sparkly. These are some of the adjectives that the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, in a 1977…
Edible landscapes are everywhere it seems rights now: from the front lawn of the White House to the display gardens of slick design magazines. Each spring seed catalogs highlight new colorful varieties of tomato and pepper to add splashes of vibrant color to the vegetable beds.
But all this glossy marketing has a real basis in [...]
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