Garden & farm

Curious about growing avocado trees? Before you toss the avocado pit, consider growing your own with this easy tutorial. This is an excerpt from No-Waste Kitchen Gardening by Katie Elzer-Peters. Avocado Photo by Subbotina Anna …
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April’s spring showers bring the May flowers and May brings the packaged honey bees that will pollinate and feed on those blooms. Starting in May postal carriers and delivery drivers around the country will begin dropping off packages…
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Composite image by Aislinn Sarnacki A great way to prepare for the growing season is to carefully map out your garden spaces, whether you plan to tend a large vegetable patch or a tiny planter on your patio. Visualizing these places is…
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Most gardeners are accustomed to using a single method of gardening, maybe a plot or a raised bed. There are so many different gardening methods around the world, though, and some of them may help you grow better where you are. Hugel…
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Because of the intellectual stimulation and therapeutic benefits it provides, gardening has long attracted some of the world’s greatest thinkers. As a result, there is a wide variety of insightful, beautiful quotes about the gardening…
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Fruit trees — just a few or a whole orchard — can produce fruit for eating and making into jams, juices and more. Here's how to pick a fruit tree. Photo by Gabor Degre Whether you love making jam or just want fruit picked fresh off…
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Although garlic is usually planted in the fall, planting garlic in the spring will yield a harvest. But it’s a different growing and harvesting experience than if you plant garlic in the fall. Spring garlic greens growing. | Photo by…
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Plastic-free gardening is possible. These easy ideas and tips for using more sustainable materials will help you ditch the plastic where you grow. Newspaper pots. | Photo by Kate Garland There’s no avoiding it: we use a lot of…
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Photo courtesy of Quarto Author Katie Elzer-Peters has always had a love of plants and has been gardening. Her book, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening, is a great beginners guide to repurposing and composting leftover produce, and growing a…
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The last months of winter may not seem like a prime gardening season, but it is a great time to get a jump on spring growing by starting seeds indoors. Photo by Kate Garland Starting your plants indoors protects tender seedlings from…
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If you are an enthusiastic homebrewer or happen to live near a brewery, you may have toyed with the idea of growing hops. The green, pinecone-shaped flowers of the hop plant that are used to flavor and stabilize beer. Photo by Anthony…
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Photo from Pexels by Lukasz Dziege Between moving, packing and shipping and runs to the warehouse club stores, cardboard boxes tend to accumulate. You can bring new life to the old boxes lying around your home when you reuse cardboard…
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