Farming/Gardening
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75 Things You Can Compost, But Thought You Couldn't - Planet Green
The basics of composting are simple. Most people know they can compost fruit and vegetable peels, leaves, and grass clippings. But what about that tea bag you used this morning? Or the fur that collects in the brush when you groom your cat?
How to Turn a Pallet into a Garden
Good news and bad news. I had planned to film a short video showing you how to make a pallet garden, but the weather didn’t cooperate. I was stapling the landscape fabric onto the pallet when it started drizzling and got really windy. That’s the bad news. But I know I promised a tutorial today, so I took photos and have kept my word to share how to make the pallet garden.Handy Farm Devices - Cobleigh - ToC
By Way of Introduction SUCCESS comes to the man who so works that his efforts will bring the most and the best results -- not to the man who simply works hard. It is the know-how, things-to-do-with and economy that count. Labor-saving machinery has revolutionized many a trade and industry.
Yes you can have a garden, even in an urban home. No yard is no excuse. " Apartment Gardening: Plants, Projects, and Recipes for Growing Food in Your Urban Home " is what every city-dweller with a green thumb needs. Author Amy Pennington explains how to make recycled planters from everything -- wine boxes to milk crates. And she even provides recipes so we know what to do with our edible blossoms.
Apartment Gardening: Turn a Filing Cabinet Into a Planter - DIY Life
There are two things urban gardeners are short on: space and time. The Urban Garden , brainchild of Bill Arquitt, resolves both of these issues, making it efficient and simple to plant a vegetable garden with up to 55 plants in a 3-foot deep by 4-foot wide footprint. The contained six level tiered system is nearly maintenance-free, eliminating heavy weeding, and its northwestern cedar construction renders it naturally bug repellent.
Small Footprint, Big Yield: Create an Easy Micro Organic Urban Garden Today! | Urban Gardens | Unlimited Thinking For Limited Spaces
Agricultural Marketing Service - Farmers Markets
Farmers markets are an integral part of the urban/farm linkage and have continued to rise in popularity, mostly due to the growing consumer interest in obtaining fresh products directly from the farm. Farmers markets allow consumers to have access to locally grown, farm fresh produce, enables farmers the opportunity to develop a personal relationship with their customers, and cultivate consumer loyalty with the farmers who grows the produce. Direct marketing of farm products through farmers markets continues to be an important sales outlet for agricultural producers nationwide. As of mid-2011, there were 7,175 farmers markets operating throughout the U.S. This is a 17 percent increase from 2010.
First off – you really can build this thing very cheaply, but to do so you have to recycle, freecycle, and scrounge. If you just go out and buy new everything it will probably cost over $200 – still not bad all in all. The planning is over and construction on my hoop house greenhouse has begun.
How to build My 50 Dollar Greenhouse » The Door Garden
Eco-Tips :: Natural Pest Management
Americans spend over $1 billion and apply over 70 million pounds of pesticides to suburban lawns each year, making storm-water runoff a leading source of water pollution. Pesticides: Each year more than 43,000 children under age six are exposed to concentrations of pesticides high enough to cause cancer, respiratory illness, and central nervous system damage.The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond | www.verticalfarm.com
The Problem By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth's population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim.
Seed Calendar | What to Plant Now | When to Plant Vegetables
It's time for garden catalogs to arrive in the mail. January is a great time to start planning what you will be planting in your garden. Look through your catalogs and find the vegetable seeds for your garden. Some flower varieties should be started in January.The best organic food is what's grown closest to you . Use our website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies. Want to support this great web site? Shop in our catalog for things you can't find locally!
Local Harvest / Farmers Markets / Family Farms / CSA / Organic Food
Watch our videos, ask our experts and review important gardening information on when to sow, grow and harvest your home vegetable or flower garden. Abutilon Agastache Ageratum Alyssum Amaranthus Ammi Majus Angelonia Asclepias Aster Baby's Breath Balsam Begonia Bells of Ireland Blue Eyed Daisies Calendula Callibrachoa Canna Celosia Chrysanthemum Cleome Coleus Convolvulus Coreopsis Cornflower Cosmos Cypress Vine Dahlias Daisies Dianthus Dichondra Dusty Miller Euphorbia Four O'Clocks Gaillardia Gazania Geranium Gerbera Gladiolus Gomphrena Hollyhocks Ice Plants Impatiens Ipomopsis Laurentia Lilies Lisianthus Lobelia Marigolds Millet Mimulus Moonflowers Morning Glories Nasturtium Nemophila Nicotiana Ornamental Kales Pansies Pennisetum Pentas Petunias Phlox Plectranthus Poppy Portulaca Rudbeckia Salpiglosis Salvia Scabiosa Scaevola Snapdragons Statice Stock Strawflowers Summer Bulbs Sunflowers Sweet Peas Thunbergia Tithonia Torenia Tuberose Verbenas Vigna Vincas Vines and Climbers Violas Zinnias
Burpee Seeds and Plants - Home Garden, Vegetable Seeds, Annual Flowers at Burpee.com
On many occasions, we've been tempted to grow our own potatoes. They're fairly low maintenance, can be grown in a pot or in the ground, last a fairly long time if stored properly, and can be very nutritious (high in potassium and vitamin C). Here's more incentive: according to this article, you can grow 100 pounds of potatoes in 4 sq. feet. Learn how after the jump... According to this article from the Seattle Times , potatoes planted inside a box with this method can grow up to 100 pounds of potatoes in just 4 square feet.