Courtesy Ben Laterell Students in Portland, Ore., get to learn about installing gardens, cooking organically and selling at farmers’ markets thanks to a Classroom Earth grant. Teachers across the country face similar challenges on a day-to-day basis, but what do teachers Remy Dou of Miami, Fla., James Lorenz of Minneapolis, and Tom McKenna of Portland, […]
We’ve been eating the first few grapes in the last week, but the big harvest is still a week or two away, and the rainy days we’ve been getting in Liguria lately aren’t speeding things up.
I was lucky enough last weekend to spend a day at the Cleveland Botanical Garden with my mother and a group of gardening friends.
Courtesy Reverend DeVanie Jackson Chef Noah Sheetz with Reverends Robert and DeVanie Jackson organized the fig jam in Brooklyn. A tree grows in Brooklyn — a fig tree, that is, and in Bedford Stuyvesant, no less. In 2004, when the Rev. Robert Jackson and the Rev. DeVanie Jackson had finally trudged through the red tape […]
Courtesy The Park People The city of Denver’s Denver Digs Trees program distributes trees to neighborhoods twice a year—once in the fall and once in the spring. If a tree falls in Denver chances are very good someone will plant one back in its place. That’s due, in large part, to Denver Digs Trees, a […]
Students from the University of Kentucky built a solar house for the 2009 Solar Decathlon with sustainability and liveability in mind.
Courtesy Stock.XCHNG American farmers’ market shoppers casted their votes for their farmers’ market. Last month, farmers’ market goers across the nation entered their picks for their favorite farmers’ markets as part of a contest by American Farmland Trust. “Over 50,000 people from across the country voted for their favorite farmers’ markets this summer,” says Jane […]
Fall means the figs are ready to pick and preparations for the huge olive harvest here are just starting.
Photo by Stephanie Staton Worm exchange programs help people who vermicompost obtain red wiggler worms for free. Worms are taking center stage in the fight against food waste. Worm composting, also known as vermicomposting, is becoming more popular in urban settings where gardeners lack the space for traditional compost heaps. Housed in small bins, red […]
