Forget the plastic cups and peat pots. Soil blocks are an eco-friendly way to get your seeds started and make transplanting a cinch.
If you have a shovel and some buckets (or better still, a pickup truck), call your own municipality and ask if a pile of leaf compost is available to residents.
Reap the benefits of the elderberry bush by paying careful attention to the harvest of this plant.
It’s no secret: I'm an advocate for weeds. As soon as the first chickweed leaves are ready in the spring, I search for as many as I can greedily stuff into my mouth.
Enhance your cooking by growing your own varieties of onions and other members of the allium family.
I'm planning to try a few new herbs in my garden this year. Although old standby's like oregano, dill, thyme and basil will always have a home, I'm hoping to get a little more adventurous in both the garden and the kitchen this year by trying these slightly out-of-the-box herbs.
In the dead of January, it can be particularly difficult to imagine that you’ll soon be needing to prepare the ground for planting.
Treat yourself to the results of your hard garden work by planting these themed container gardens.
The bitter cold here in the East has wreaked havoc on the garden this week. I’m not so much worried the many perennial plants, trees and shrubs we have on the property that are fully hardy down to USDA zone 5 and below.
After we are through the holidays on the homestead and into the new year, it’s not necessarily a time of relaxation. Spring, summer and fall are filled with great physical activity, but winter is my time to catch up on that stack of magazines and books that have been piling up.
As you plan your 2014 garden, consider adopting a more organic approach if you haven't already.
Our farm is named after the beautiful mockingbird, which tends to be quite territorial about the property where it nests.
