If I was to draw a Venn diagram showing the overlap of my gardening and landscape interests, you'd probably find edible green walls smack in the center, next to medieval Japanese stonework and my fig tree . Oh look, I did. Up to this point I've mostly written about g
Alkaline soil is soil with a pH level above 7.0. Plants often have a hard time growing in alkaline soil, because it typically has...
Soil contamination has silently crept into our gardens. What can we do about it? Let's chat about it on #groundchat, Friday, September 16 at 2 pm EST on Twitter. See you there!
There is nothing more satisfying than growing and preparing your own food. I am an Oregonian transplanted to Austin, Texas. I can garden year round here; of course, this also means I am pulling weeds every day. I practice organic gardening principles and enjoy the challenge of outsmarting garden pests. Occasionally I lose these battles, but I don't mind sharing a good meal.
A lot has changed since this was written... I got married In the Summer of 2016... My wife and I bought a house way out in the country... I now work on a farm as a field manager... I am in the process of rewriting this bio... So consider the site under construction... My name…
The amount of dust being blown across the landscape has increased over the last 17 years in large swaths of the West, according to a new study.
Until now, a major piece of the soil quality puzzle has been missing. For decades, traditional soil tests analyzed nutrients, soil pH, and organic matter, leaving out soil biology.But two new tests give growers objective tools to track the impact of their management changes and measure if practices like compost, manure, growing a cover crop,
The Wells Reserve at Laudholm is a place to discover. It's a National Estuarine Research Reserve with its headquarters listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Four Country Gals has a Utah State Grade A Goat Dairy. They make Traditional Mexican Caramel Sauces and Goat Milk Soaps with the milk. Occasionally, they have milk left over which they sell to the public. With bees wax from their farm they make Paw Wax, and Lip Balms.
