Excerpt from the Popular Farming Series magabook Organic Farm & Garden with permission from its publisher, BowTie magazines, a division of BowTie Inc. Purchase Organic Farm & Garden here. America’s favorite backyard crop, tomatoes, is a favorite food for pests. The tomato plant can fall prey to insects, slugs and fungal diseases, so tomatoes need monitoring […]
Discover these four tomato plant pests and how you can get rid of them without resorting to pesticides.
Store-bought furniture cleaners often contain chemicals that are harmful to your health, so take the leap and make it with your own organic ingredients.
Urban Farm takes a break with the corporate executive chef of Brown-Forman to get his take on container gardening and sustainability.
Teen mothers learn hands-on science, English, nutrition and more with the help of their school’s urban farm.
Photo by Judith Hausman These tomato-lemon and olive-rosemary biscotti are delicious with minestrone. If a good soup is simmering on your stove this winter as often as it is on mine, you’ll love these crunchy, savory biscotti as the perfect accompaniments. This is my favorite recipe because the biscotti turn out dry and crunchy, just […]
Photo courtesy ForageSF Iso Rabins of ForageSF teaches burgeoning food finders how to forage for edible plants. Foraging is the latest foodie fixation. While there is nothing new about the practice of gathering food from wild places, creative locavores are taking the art of found food to new levels, transforming the bounty into restaurant meals, […]
Photo by Rick Gush The greens of Swiss chard. Back when I grew Swiss chard in my gardens in the United States, I always wanted the tall plants with the thick, white stems. When cooking, it was common to focus on the stems and even to throw out some of the green leaf in favor […]
iStockphoto/Thinkstock 2011’s “Dinosaur of the Year” award goes to the cruise-ship industry. Before you book your next cruise, think about what kind of impact you might be making on the environment, depending on which cruise line you choose. Given by the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, 2011’s “Dinosaur of the Year” award goes to the […]
