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.

Your Favorite Farm and Garden Job

By Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer

That’s an easy one for me— burning off the asparagus patch in the early spring. Just something about lighting up the new growing year.

Perennial plants and a promise produce a new project

By Claire Schosser, Living Low in the Lou

A friendly reminder, the bees, and some soil test results suggest a new garden project for 2016 and beyond.

The 2016 garden: a year of transition

By Claire Schosser, Living Low in the Lou

Now it’s time to share with you my plans for the 2016 garden.

Foodroom Gardening: No Rows, No Woes

By Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer

I keep trying to imagine a future time when all human beings would be responsible for their basic food necessities just as they are responsible for their own bodily cleanliness and cooking meals.

Off with their heads: mowing with a European scythe

By Claire Schosser, Living Low in the Lou

This year I learned how to use a European scythe for mowing and trimming.