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powering down: videos on growing change

Nim wrote 1 month ago: <p><a href=”http://poweringdown.blogspot.com/2009/11/videos-on-growing-change.html … more →

Tags: Peak Oil, permaculture

Removing a Blight from Your Vegetable Garden

distantgardens wrote 2 months ago: Here, in the Eastern part of the United States, the cool rainy Spring and early Summer this year cre … more →

Tags: Vegetables, The garden, late blight, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Phytophthora infestans

So long, Local Foods Month!

trailtown wrote 2 months ago: On this, the last day of  Local Foods month, we here at the GAP SBN thought we might celebrate the p … more →

Tags: Green on the GAP, in Southwestern PA, Resources, local food, buy local, Eat'n Park, Paşa, Buy Fresh Buy Local PA, Farmer's Markets

Farmer Ed Bob.3 comments

lynt wrote 4 months ago: This weekend’s parental visit provided what’s likely the last of the summer tomatoes. I … more →

Tags: Life, Lesbian, mid-life musing, Food

Book report: Victory Backyard Gardens (1942)

greenzonegarden wrote 5 months ago: I’ve been waylaid in the backyard, working on my vegetable garden.  Some might say fruit and v … more →

Tags: Gardens, Victory Gardens, Vegetables, World War II, cartoons, Civilian Defense, USDA, Food, wartime gardens

Wild Man Builds Roots in Harlem2 comments

mcorreia wrote 5 months ago: Joe Gonzalez tends the herbs in the backyard of his Harlem apartment. Joe Gonzalez is the “wild man” … more →

Tags: City Farmers, Community Gardens, food scraps, Urban Agriculture, 118th Street, Adam Clayton Powell Avenue, Carrots, Central Harlem, Community Board 10

Providence Farm City1 comment

greenzonegarden wrote 7 months ago: Apologies to KISS… Yesterday, I went to a meeting for Providence’s Urban Agriculture Tas … more →

Tags: children's gardens, Community Gardens, contemporary victory garden movement, Farm Fresh Rhode Island, Farms, Food, garden activism, Gardens, Local Farms

In the zone

greenzonegarden wrote 7 months ago: Thanks to everyone who stopped by Firehouse 13 last night for Green Zones: From the War Garden to Yo … more →

Tags: Gardens, Victory Gardens, war gardens, Food, wartime gardens, Community Gardens, Urban Agriculture, Vegetables, Providence

Hope gardens: it's time (again)1 comment

greenzonegarden wrote 8 months ago: Hats off to Providence Journal Business editor John Kostrzewa for today’s column on “A s … more →

Tags: children's gardens, Community Gardens, contemporary victory garden movement, demonstration gardens, Economic Crisis, Editorial, factory gardens, Food, Gardens

Green thoughts on garden plots

greenzonegarden wrote 8 months ago: Brown University’s Center for Environmental Studies not only hosts a community garden for staf … more →

Tags: Gardens, Community Gardens, Providence, local food, Talks, Events, Brown University, Food, Urban Agriculture

Edible Garden Tour

mauryk wrote 8 months ago: South Maui Sustainability hosted its first Edible Garden Tour on Saturday morning. We visited 3 real … more →

Tags: Food & Energy Security, sustainability, South Maui Sustainability, vegetable gardens, edible gardens, South Maui, Maui Meadows, garden tour, edible garden tour

Go green! Plant an organic garden...1 comment

greengal wrote 9 months ago: You’ll not only have better tasting food than what you buy at the supermarket, but your pocket … more →

Tags: Green Shopping, organic foods, health, roots and fins farms, portable farms, Organic Gardening

How Does My Garden Grow? Update 4 - Ides of March1 comment

cooperella wrote 9 months ago: Rain and cool temps couldn’t keep us from another weekend of more gardening adventures on the … more →

Tags: heath & beauty, Go Green!, Food, Lifestyle, landscape architecture, outdoors, Austin, Garden, localvore

Garden Expansion3 comments

cooperella wrote 9 months ago: I am exhausted, and ravenous.  This promises to be a short post.  But I wanted to fill you all in on … more →

Tags: heath & beauty, Go Green!, Food, Austin, Garden, the natural gardener, vegetable gardens, raised bed gardens, raised planter

How does my garden grow? Update 3 -March1 comment

cooperella wrote 10 months ago: March is going to be an exciting month in the garden. In the next two weeks I’ll be transplant … more →

Tags: heath & beauty, Go Green!, Food, Lifestyle, Austin, Garden, local food, locavore, Eating Locally

How does my garden grow? Update 2 - February1 comment

cooperella wrote 10 months ago: It’s been 2 weeks since my last update, and a full month since we first planted the garden bac … more →

Tags: heath & beauty, Go Green!, Food, Lifestyle, Personal, outdoors, Austin, Garden, locavore

Home gardens are growing!2 comments

Chuck Warnock wrote 1 year ago: The Washington Post has a great article about the increase in the number of backyard gardeners in th … more →

Tags: do-it-ourselves, Environment, Food, Garden, Vegetables, food and economy, grow food to save money, grow your own food, Home Gardens


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