Growing Food: Starting Seeds Indoors Part 3
Starting seeds indoors for my spring garden? Check. And some of my babies are already peeking out of the soil. Hooray! Here’s how I made it happen.
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Build a Greenhouse from Plastic Water Bottles
Who needs big bucks to build a greenhouse when you can create an upcycled structure from salvaged plastic bottles?
Growing Cities Producer’s Fascinating Journey
Growing Cities producer Dan Susman talks about his journey from backyard farmer to urban food advocate. Spoiler: he started out by planting pumpkins! It’s a great story. Get to know him!
You Can Change The Horrid Conditions Of American Farmworkers
When you dig into the the realities of our food system, you find truths you don’t want to know. Such is the case with farmworkers’ conditions.
Plant a Garden for Healthy Vegan Bones
Gardening is one of those hobbies that has it all. It’s great exercise, can save you money, is good for mental health, and produces the world’s healthiest vegan foods including these for healthy bones.
35 Garden Ideas to Get You Growing
From small-space gardening to specific plants to plain old eye candy, we’ve got garden ideas to satisfy all of your spring gardening desires!
Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Garden Time Lapse Video is Awesome
Brooklyn Grange is the world’s largest rooftop farm, and this time-lapse video condenses their growing season into an awe-inspiring three minutes.
Fined for Growing Food: Sean Law’s Permaculture Forest
Yet another Floridian is in trouble for growing food on his own property, and this time it may cost him and his family their home.
Urban Farming in Mexico City
We love a good example of urban farming around here! Urban farms are such a wonderful way to transform unused or blighted spaces in big cities into lush, food-producing patches of land (or rooftop, or wall!).
Why are my cucumbers falling off of the vine?
What I’ve always loved about growing cucumbers is that it’s so easy to do. Usually, my cucumbers thrive with regular watering and no other maintenance to speak of. That totally rocks until a crop of cucumbers decides that it doesn’t want to cooperate.
Documentary Short Looks at Monsanto’s Hold on Hawaii
Monsanto and other biotech firms have used Hawai’i as a seed laboratory for decades. In fact, a majority of the GMO seed corn sold to farmers in the midwest comes from Hawai’i. As oil prices continue to rise and the cost of importing fresh food from 2500 miles away goes with it, Hawai’i is reconsidering the wisdom of plantation crops that don’t feed its people.
Real Food in the Mainstream: Will Allen on the Colbert Report
Urban farming advocates like Will Allen and the nonprofit he works with called Growing Power are looking to change that by building farms in cities that grow lots of food in sometimes not a lot of space. Allen wrote a book on his urban farming efforts: The Good Food Revolution, and on Tuesday night he talked to Stephen Colbert about urban farming, food deserts, and kohlrabi. Check it out!
More Food Garden Eye Candy
It’s been warm and rainy here in Atlanta, and our food garden is blowing UP! I headed out to the garden with my camera the other day to take some shots of our food-growing progress, and I’d love to hear what’s growing in your gardens! Tell me about what you’re planting or planning to plant in the comments. If you have photos, feel free to share links, too.