Learn what to look for when your vegetables show signs of pest problems.
Photo courtesy of Bruce Damonte The world’s first restaurant for plants will be at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Calif., will open the world’s first photosynthetic restaurant this spring. Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has developed a gourmet cuisine for flora by filtering and mixing different wavelengths of sunlight. Keats’ installation […]
Beat the heat with these six tips for increased summer crop production.
Maria tends an 8-foot-wide by 50-yard-long strip that is wedged between the main road and a 15-foot drop.
The perennial garden beds have been simply spectacular the past two weeks. The peonies are now in full bloom, the bearded iris are strutting their stuff, and the forget-me-nots have filled my front shade bed with a big drift of tiny blue flowers.
Photo by Gwen Hill The hydroponic system on the Science Barge keeps vegetables healthy and strong. The small spinach, totsoi, kale, chard, parsley, basil and dill plants growing in the Science Barge greenhouse look sturdy and bright. It’s hard to imagine that 50 pounds of produce had been harvested and donated to a Yonkers, N.Y. food pantry in early […]
When I was a senior in high school, a group of us had gone to a dance in a neighboring town. During the evening, a light rain combined with freezing ground temperatures to coat everything in about a quarter inch of ice. Any sensible fool would have stayed with friends until morning. Being a teenager, I attempted to drive my friends home.
Courtesy of Thinkstock Yellowstone partnership will create less plastic waste. A new recycling partnership has been forged between Yellowstone National Park and Universal Textile Technologies. This new partnership creates and protects jobs for the American workforce, reduces the amount of plastic bottles that go into landfills and helps Yellowstone National Park meet its recycling goals. Universal Textile has […]
It’s wonderful being surrounded by so many animals all the time, but let’s face it: It can be hard to spend enough time with all of them when you are busy working and doing chores just to take care of them.
As you may be able to guess from the title of today’s post, I’m typing this blog with only nine fingers.
