No Garden? Here Are 66 Things You Can Can Grow At Home In Containers

By Rachel Cernansky - planetgreen.discovery.com Growing your own food is exciting, not only because you get to see things grow from nothing into ready-to-eat fruits and veggies, but you also don’t have to worry about the pesticides they might contain, and you definitely cut down on the miles they—and you—have to travel. As it turns out, with pretty minimal effort, anyone can be a gardener. If you’re up to the challenge—and it really isn’t much of one—growing your own food can be so rewarding. Here’s a starter list of all the crazy things even urban gardeners, without space for a garden, can grow at home. Tree fruits – including apples 1. Citrus fruits Citrus trees in particular are said to be good for beginning gardeners and are easy to grow indoors, so don’t let inexperience or lack of outdoor space stop you from enjoying fresh-picked, hyper-local fruit. 10. Tropical fruits Tropical fruits can also be surprisingly easy to grow indoors, even in non-tropical climates. 15. The real surprises

Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) How to make a Worm Tower Alexe drills holes in a pipe to make a worm tower A worm tower is a simple and effective way to take any garden bed from average yield to gloriously abundant. Simple to build, with materials you probably already have, a worm tower is the perfect addition to any garden bed, in any climate. It will bring increased fertility to your plants, improve your soil, make every living thing very happy and process organic waste to boot. We’ve been adding worm towers to garden projects for a couple of years. We love them because they are so simple to make, are energy efficient and they are so beneficial. Adam and students inspecting a worm tower in full flight at White Street Community Garden Essentially a worm tower is an in-garden worm farm that allows the worms and their nutrients to interact directly with the surrounding garden bed. The pipe contains a bunch of compost worms, and you periodically feed the worms with handfuls of organic matter (kitchen scraps, leaf litter, weeds, etc).

Free Online Art Classes 37 FREE Online Art and Music Resources Welcome to the final week of the 2013 Virtual Curriculum Fair! This week’s topic is: Seeking Beauty: the Arts and Everything that Brings Beauty to Our World This theme can include any of the arts, handicrafts, but really ANYTHING at all that adds beauty to your homeschool. As I receive links from the other participants they will be added to the bottom of this post, so be sure to bookmark this page so you can find it later. Last year I talked about how art can be a gateway to exploring the world. I thought this year, rather than getting all philosophical on you, I’d focus on the practical. 37 FREE Online Resources for Teaching the Arts Note: Go here to see the newly revised Ultimate List of 44 Free Awesome Arts and Music Resources! Art Appreciation and Picture Study 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Art History 9. 10. 11. Artist Study 12. 13. Art Instruction 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Music Appreciation 21. 22. 23. 24. Composer Study 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Music Instruction 31. 32. 33. Other Fun Stuff 34.

Creative Ceramic Sculptures By Johnson Tsang | The Photomag Hong Kong based artist and sculptor Johnson Tsang specializing in stainless steel sculpture, ceramics and public art works. His sculptures are unbelievably realistic which seem to be caught like photographs. His beautiful sculpture lies in range between abstract and figurative art. Tsang mixes both objects and human characters together by using special techniques through streams intersect, liquids spill from mugs and crash to the ground. via: Johnson Tsang