Ode to my broadfork

By Kara Stiff, Low-Carbon Life

This baby will lift the impossible concretions of Carolina red clay, even if it’s pretty dry. It’ll bring water and air to roots and worms so long entombed they’re shocked by the concept of oxygen.

The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments: Excerpt

By Nigel Palmer, Resilience.org

Rediscoveries of forgotten or discarded ideas about plant growth—such as that truly healthy plants can thwart soilborne and airborne pathogens, as well as insect pests, and provide significantly higher levels of nutritional value—are the inspiration for a new model for tending gardens and farm fields.

The Impulse to Garden in Hard Times has Deep Roots

By Jennifer Atkinson, The Conversation

Our era is one of profound loneliness, and the proliferation of digital devices is only one of the causes. That emptiness also proceeds from the staggering retreat of nature, a process underway well before screen addiction.

Bristol Good Food Films: Growing Food

By the source project, Bristol Food Network

We’re producing a series of films to capture the incredible enthusiasm of people across Bristol for good food. From growing at home to cooking from scratch, stopping food waste to supporting local producers, Bristolians are finding new ways to make our local food system stronger than ever.

Five Reasons to Garden (That Aren’t About Food Security)

By Kara Stiff, Low-Carbon Life

I salute every coronavirus gardener, and I dearly hope they will make a permanent habit of it! Because there are some excellent reasons to garden that have nothing to do with food security.

The Self Sufficiency Surge

By Kim Stoddart, Sustainable Food Trust

One can only hope that this wave of newbie gardeners carries on regardless, once we emerge from this crisis, blinking into the brave new greener world ahead of us.

Fertilizing a Garden Entirely for Free

By Kara Stiff, Low-Carbon Life

With this free fertilizer scheme I can still garden successfully if I don’t have extra cash to spend on fertilizer. I can still garden if my local hardware store goes out of business and I lose easy access to purchased inputs. I can still garden if something goes really wrong with the world, supply chains fail and it’s no longer possible to buy fertilizer.

Fall Garden Success!

By Kara Stiff, Low-Carbon Life

Around here, we have a goal to produce 80% of our veg, fruit, meat and dairy within five years of moving onto our land. This is year three, and while we’ve reached that goal for summer veg like tomatoes and cucumbers (until this year’s drought), I have not had as much success with the fall garden until this year.

The 2017 Garden: Small is Bountiful

By Claire Schosser, Living Low in the Lou

2017 was a year that didn’t go according to plan, and thus neither did this blog. However, I’m back to the blog now and intend to continue making posts on an irregular basis. And that means it’s time to report on what the garden told me in 2017.

What the Garden-Hacking Grandmas and Grandpas of South Korea Know

By Patrick M. Lydon, YES! magazine

But what if a garden culture could flourish anywhere, regardless of how the structure of a city was designed? And what if, by allowing such a culture to flourish, we could begin to heal some of our most pressing ecological and social issues? During the past five years, my partner Suhee Kang and I have enjoyed the opportunity to engage somewhat deeply with these kinds of places—both in concrete-lined urban corridors and in lush fields of hillside natural farms.

The 2016 Garden: What the Rabbits Taught

By Claire Schosser, Living Low in the Lou

Once again, it’s time to look at the lessons that the garden and its residents taught me during the past year. You can check this post for basic information on how I listen to what the garden tells me and how to conduct a dialogue with your own garden.

What I Learned from my First Garden

By Rachel Quednau, Strong Towns

This year, I started my first garden—a micro garden really.