Did you know your kitchen waste is the secret to growing 100lb pumpkins? Most gardeners toss their kitchen scraps and old vines
CASE STUDY: We've been living off the grid for the last 40 years...
In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...
You think you hate radicchio because you have only ever tasted the grocery store version. Stop buying bitter greens! True radicchio needs
Why break your back when a single layer of straw does the work for you? Gardening shouldn’t feel like a chore. Switching
Is your fertilizer feeding your plant or killing your soil? High-NPK synthetic fertilizers might give you a quick flush of growth, but
Stop waiting 21 days for seeds that might never even wake up. Parsnip seeds are notoriously fickle and have a short shelf
See why our ancestors called this ‘The Root of the Holy Ghost’ and why modern potting sheds fail to replicate its true
Why harvest a leaf when you can grow an entire new plant for free? Stop stripping your basil naked! Picking leaves one
Most gardeners leave their soil naked all winter, but the secret to spring success is hiding in a packet of mustard seeds.
Most nectarine failures aren’t due to bad luck, but bad placement. Think planting in the middle of the lawn is safe? Think
Why back-breaking thinning is actually the slowest way to grow a kohlrabi harvest. If you are spending hours on your knees pulling
Stop paying the city to water your sidewalk and start feeding your soil. Overhead sprinklers are a relic of the past. They
Your kale isn’t bad at growing—it’s just starving in a biological desert. Stop pouring chemicals onto your kale. When you build a
Are you killing your marjoram by being too ‘careful’ during the harvest? Most gardeners treat marjoram like a delicate flower, but it
Stop paying for chemicals when the best kiwi food is currently sitting in your yard for free. Stop buying expensive fruit boosters.
Are you spending hours doing a job that the bees would do for free in seconds? We spent years trying to hand-pollinate
That massive plant taking up half your garden bed isn’t a problem; it’s a free fertilizer factory. Don’t let those giant leaves
Once you taste the complex oils of a homegrown hardneck bulb, you’ll realize the supermarket has been selling you cardboard for years.
Are you working harder than your soil to keep your cucumbers alive? Most gardeners spend 4 hours a week watering cucumbers only
Most gardeners throw these purple globes away, but chefs pay top dollar for the secret they contain. When your chives bolt, the
Ancient wisdom outperforms modern chemistry when it comes to the world’s favorite grain. Modern agriculture relies on heavy chemicals to feed ‘hungry’