Transition Laguna Beach met in our backyard over the weekend, for a monthly gathering that reminds me of a barn raising. We call it a garden installation, but I’m renaming it in honor of the Amish, who call this kind of community event a frolic. Here’s how our garden frolic works. Read more »
Switching your focus from buying to sharing can help create an affordable, sustainable summer experience that you'll be talking about all year long. Read more »
The Horto Domi combines vermiculture, geodesic domes, moisture sensors, and open hardware in an automated backyard food growing system for the everyperson.
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Here in Monroe and Alpine, Oregon, we have created a solution that is helping people learn about gardening, grow their own food and lift the burden on our local food-bank to provide for its ever increasing customers. Read more »
An interview with Laurence Schechtman who is founder and coordinator for Neighborhood Vegetables — a grassroots network of 2,500 volunteers who help each other plant organic vegetable gardens. Read more »
Joel Salatin, a self-described "Christian-conservative-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic farmer,” is running a 550-acre farm that is so self-sustaining he's never bought seeds, fertilizers, chemicals, plows, or silos. Read more »
Blackberry bramble grows wild all over our town. Many consider it a menace. It’s invasive, and it will choke everything out and take your fence down in the process. Read more »
Sometimes I think we are the only family at the grocery store that buys collard greens and kale. We go through the line and, inevitably, the checker has to look up the code on her laminated cheat sheet. Read more »
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