How should you prepare land for a food forest when you have 3 acres or more? Follow these steps to ready your land for Permaculture food production.
You can apply chicken manure to add valuable nutrients to the garden, but it's critical to properly compost it first to keep dangerous bacteria off your produce.
Add value to your farm's offerings by growing woody ornamentals, trees and shrubs grown specifically for floral sales. Here's how to get started.
Extend your growing season and get sweeter veggies by planting some cold-weather crops that actually improve with a touch of frost.
This recipe for spicy green tomato pickles is easy, delicious and makes good use of all those unripe tomatoes at threat from the coming first frost.
Is your garden producing more cucumbers than you can use? Make these easy cucumber ice cubes for a simply refreshing skin and face product.
As summer draws to a close, it's time to think about the cold season and getting the garden ready for winter. Here are a few ways to get your growing space winter-ready.
Alison Cooksey from the Bay Area-based gardening adventure she calls Cooksey Farms tells us about potato cucumbers and seed starting experiments.
Find out which plants are most at risk for aster yellows disease and how to keep the chaos from spreading in your home garden.
If you're interested in becoming a flower farmer, you need to determine your sales channels. Here are some of the more popular outlets for cut flowers.
In late summer and early autumn, sunflowers may lose their beauty, but the spent flowers still have plenty of uses. Here are 5 to consider.
Planting trees from large pots can be difficult, but it need not be an insurmountable challenge as a simple wooden ramp can make moving heavy trees easier.
