After clearing away whatever is left of last season’s vegetables – perhaps you have left the roots of runner beans and French beans in the soil to improve its nitrogen content – you just pull out serious weeds then cover whatever is left with several inches of new compost.

This beautiful, sprawling permaculture garden is run by guys who met in jail or on the streets.

Whether you live in a big city or someplace that gets cold 9 months out of the year, indoor herb gardens provide so many benefits. They purify the air in y

Warmer temperatures in Alaska are giving farmers flexibility to plant a wider range of crops over a longer growing season. One farmer says the secret to his bounty is soil enriched by flooding rivers.

Spring is coming.

Like every other trait on every other living thing, a clover's lucky fourth leaf sprouts from DNA. But understanding the clover genome won't necessarily help you find one.

Birds add grace, beauty and amusement to our lives with their gorgeous colors and quirky behavior.

What is the first food that comes to mind when you hear "foraged"? My guess is that a mushroom came to mind. While it's true that most mushrooms are grown in the wild, there's an abundance of other wild plant foods that are much easier to find and identify. Just because these wild plants are out there, does that mean we should eat them? My colleagues and I of Berkeley Open Source Food (BOSF) are arguing yes.

Urban foraging could help address the nutrition crisis in America's low income communities, researchers say

A gardening expert has a ton of tips about starting your own organic garden.

Two methods to make brilliant compost to improve your garden soil.

Farming with organic weed control requires a bit more attention at crucial times in the growing season, but it doesn't have to mean hours of hand-weeding.

A look at different growing methods and varieties enabling you to pick your own edible fungus at home.

An expert on crystallising flowers shares the best edible flowers to use to create sweet treats.

British front gardens are disappearing. Why are people paving over their lawns?

They've been around forever, but seemed to arrive overnight. Here's how it all happened

At the moment, on an illegal fire-escape garden and an even more illegal rooftop garden, I’m growing chile peppers, strawberries, Swiss chard, figs, a few kinds of tomatoes, summer squash, cucumbers, and herbs. All but the last of these are pure vanity; it is not cost-effective to grow fruits or vegetables at home. I garden because it’s fun and it feels direct and physical to make something that isn’t a bunch of pixels on a screen.

In this educational video produced by the design blog Inhabitat, foraging expert "Wildman" Steve Brill showcases seven exotic-sounding but common weeds you can eat: Garlic Mustard, Poor Man's Pepper, Yellow Sorrel, Violet, Field Pennycress, Common Mallow and Cattail. They're scattered all over Central Park in New York City, where Brill takes students on an expedition, and can be found up and down the East Coast in the summer months, too.

Watering our zucchini after getting home from work on a hot Texas day.

There are seed starting guides all over the internet, but they typically say "For carrots start seeds on April __, for peppers start on March __. These guides are great if you happen to live in the same geographic area as the author. On the internet people live thousands of miles apart from each other. This seeding guide tells you how long it will take seeds to germinate at their ideal germination temperature.

The Honey Cow is designed to mimic nature as much as possible. Unlike commercial hives, it does not have frames, foundation or excluders. Instead, it just

My fiance and I are passionate about hiking and camping, and I love gardening. The fiance wondered if we could fill the garden with more native species, so two years ago our journey into indigenous plants began. These are just some of the flowers we've enjoyed so far this summer. I apologize for the poor quality images! Normally snapped quite hurriedly while gardening or running about the yard.

Walnuts and hickories produce the chemical juglone (5 hydroxy-1,4- napthoquinone), which is exuded from all parts of the plant. The greatest concentration of juglone and hydroxyjuglone (a nontoxic, colorless precursor that is converted into the toxic form juglone by sensitive plants and through oxidation) is found in the vegetative buds, leaves, stems, nut hulls, and roots of the plants.

They may be invasive but wineberries taste waaaay too good to yank up by the roots. Native to Japan, northern China and Korea, wineberries were introduced to North America and Europe in the late 1800s as an ornamental and for the potential to create hybrid raspberries and quickly escaped from cultivation to become a flavorful fugitive.

It may be no surprise to see potted hostas for sale at your local farmer’s market, early in the planting season, along with other garden favorites, but would you recognize the young shoots and leaves if they were bundled and …

Useful for finding the perfect location for garden plots, passive solar structures, etc.

I posted pics of my Native Ontario Plants a little bit ago. The garden is flourishing and more blooms are appearing!

The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless maintains a rooftop garden of 80 colorfully painted raised beds tended by the hundreds of residents there.

Each year, I can tell by the languor of the tomato vines in our backyard that it’s time. They recline like some exhausted 1940s Hollywood starlet, even though we’ve already relieved them of their burden.

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My buddy lives around Ottawa and he's starting a permaculture farm on his land. His brother has already been beekeeping for the better part of three years. This is his instagram feed. I wanted to share it because I think that it's important to encourage this kind of thinking today! Happy browsing. I hope that

A new food trend is taking root at baseball stadiums across the country, and it's more interested in health and sustainability than in beer and hot dogs.

Add these pickled banana peppers to a salad or sandwich. These can be made with hot or mild banana peppers.

Ethical clothing, ethical food, what about ethical gardening? Do you think you could make it as an ethical gardener?