Gardening

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Plant Your Own Insurance

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green

Read More: High Food Prices, Green Living, Food Prices, Gardening, Organic Food, Going Green, Happiness, Green News

Knowing how to produce, preserve and create your food feels good when the average barrel of petrol is going for $150 a pop. When your next salad costs $10 a pound you'll feel it there and at the pump.

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Energy COOL: A Stroll in a Garden

A. Siegel | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environment, Botanical Garden, Gardening, Global Warming, Gardens, Green News

Increasingly around the globe, botanical gardens are taking a turn, a turn to educating forcefully the public about sustainable gardening practices and the interaction of plants/gardening and global warming.

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Organic Gardening

Alexandra Clyburn | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Green, Gardening, Organic, Hair, Green News

I could never shoot an animal (or a human, come to think of it), but it's funny how something so supremely green and natural can make people want to kill.

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Green Thumb's "No Dig" Garden

Los Angeles Times | Lisa Boone | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Green, Green Living, Gardening, Green News

PAT MARFISI carries bales of alfalfa hay and straw into the center aisle of his Hollywood Hills vegetable garden and begins tearing off pieces of the ...

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How to Green Your Garden

Treehugger.com | Jasmin Malik Chua | Posted 06.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Green, Gardening, Save Money, Green News

Hey green fingers, how green does your garden really grow? If you suspect that your pastoral idyll is breeding more toxic chemicals than prize hybrid-...

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The Case Against the Victory Garden

Laura Vanderkam | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Budgeting, Outsourcing, Barbara Kingsolver, Groceries, Hobby, Laundry, Core Competency Moms, Tax Refunds, Inflation, Money, Save Money Groceries, Cooking, Gardening, Cleaning, Wall Street Journal, Gardens, Living News

The home-garden micro-trend runs counter to the tidal wave of food outsourcing that's swept through grocery stores over the past 20 years.

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If You Can't Beat 'Em, Eat 'Em

Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Woodchucks, Vegetable Gardens, Lawns, Gardening, Edible Estates, Edible Landscaping, Eat Well Guide, Living News

I was served woodchuck stew for dinner last Thursday at an upstate farm and thought it was quite a novelty, but apparently it's just the latest thing;...

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Optimum Times To Water Your Plants

Green Guide | Solvie Karlstrom | Posted 06.03.2008 | Green

Read More: Gardening, Watering Plants, Conserving Water, Green News

It can be tempting to water plants at the times they seem to need it most, when the sun is directly overhead in mid-morning or early afternoon. But be...

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Hold the Phone! Make Your Own Onion Rings

Planet Green | Kelly Rossiter | Posted 06.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Vegetables, Organic Cooking, Gardening, Green, Green Holidays, Organic Food, Green News

There is a whole sub-culture within the personal finance world that is dedicated to frugal living (reducing your living expenses), and a lot of what...

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Workin' On The Food Chain Gang

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Michael Pollan, Urban Agriculture, King Corn, Gardening, Growing Power, Urban Farming, Just Foods, Living News

For a free country, we've got an awfully tyrannical food chain. If we truly are what we eat, I guess that makes us a nation of nature-hating misanthropes.

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