Mother Earth News The Ideal Spot for a GardenMother Earth NewsThe benefits of home gardening are many and extraordinary. Vegetables and fruits, once picked, use up their own nutrients to stay alive. Produce grown and harvested from far away has to travel many days to reach the grocery store destination of lots of … Brought to […]

Botanical Garden hosting classes on organic gardeningEasley ProgressBotanical Garden hosting classes on organic gardening. CLEMSON — Cheryl LeCroy of Creative Juices Consulting, a food addiction expert and breast cancer survivor, will talk about the health and healing benefits of the “flexitarian” diet during a series … Brought to you by Google News. Read the rest […]

Mother Earth News Use Your Chickens as Compost WorkersMother Earth NewsIf you keep your hens in a fenced-in area, pick a spot that allows you to easily remove the organic compost when it is done. If you free-range your chickens, simply place the compost pile as close to the source you will be using it […]

OregonLive.com Effective bug control in organic gardens: Read the labelOregonLive.comWhat's a gardener to do? First, take some advice from Weston Miller, a horticulturist with Oregon State University Extension Service. Stop, take a breath and evaluate your garden. How bad is it? Have you really looked carefully? "With organic gardening … Brought to you by Google […]

Mother Earth News How to Sharpen and Maintain Gardening Tools (Video)Mother Earth NewsOur popular Vegetable Garden Planner can help you map out your garden design, space crops, know when to plant which crops in your exact location, and much more. Need crop-specific growing information? Browse our Crops at a Glance Guide for advice … Brought to […]

Mother Earth News Help a Farmer and Help Yourself: On-Farm Volunterring to Learn Organic Production BasicsMother Earth NewsWhen I moved to Maryland from Colorado, I suspected the vegetable growing possibilities would be great. The weather and growing season were significantly better for tomatoes, peppers, okra and more. All that was needed was some time, effort, […]

Mother Earth News Transplanting Seedlings into Hay MulchMother Earth NewsTo avoid cooling the soil when using organic mulches for warm weather crops, it is often best to wait for a month after planting out, remove one round of weeds, then roll out the mulch. Mulches also reduce rain splash, which helps prevent fungal diseases. Brought […]

Mother Earth News A Farm of Her OwnMother Earth News“We [Latino farmworkers] are the majority, and we come here and it's a lot of humiliation for us, and many of us never think about having our own farm because we feel degraded by the work. But I didn't want to put up with it anymore.” […]

Mother Earth News Landrace Gardening: Do It for the TasteMother Earth NewsI have been growing my own varieties of fruits and vegetables for years. They taste marvelous to me. Before saving seeds, I taste the crops to make sure that they taste good to me. I didn't start out to intentionally breed for great tasting […]

Mother Earth News Many Reasons for Thinning FruitMother Earth NewsOther types of fruit, such as peaches and some varieties of apples, should be thinned on the inside of the tree because they need exposure to sunlight to color up. Micki Brown is a pruning expert and avid gardener based in California. Find her online … […]