Did you plant a garden this summer? We planted quite a few flowers and vegetables, and we continue to tend to the fruit plants that mature a bit each year. Read on for a summer update on our regenerative garden this year. What’s growing in your garden this year? Have you tried any new tactics …
Do you practice regenerative gardening in your home garden? How has your garden changes or what signs do you see that regenerative gardening is helping to make your soil and plants happier and healthier? I’m a messy gardener. I embrace weeds. I resist the use of pesticides, so we have lots of bugs and spider …
Want to learn how to grow your own food? Be sure to take notes about your garden and how all your plant babies flourish or struggle to become a better gardener and grow more food for your family, friends, and neighbors. Four years ago we lived in a 56 story high-rise in downtown Chicago. I never …
What do gardens have to do with climate change? Climate Resilience Gardens (a.k.a Climate Victory Gardens) provide a host of benefits including the drawdown of carbon from the atmosphere, support for biodiversity, healthier soil, and greater access to nutritious food. Read on for 10 regenerative practices to grow a climate resilience garden of your own. …
Looking for the best places to find organic, heirloom, and non-GMO seeds for your food garden? Check out these great seed companies that can help you on your path to food independence. It’s nearly the middle of summer, so most people aren’t buying seeds right now. Seeds and starters are in the soil and hopefully …
Wondering how to help fight food deserts today? The causes of food deserts are deep and complex, but gardening is a great way you can begin to address the inequity of food deserts today. Here are four ways gardening can help alleviate food deserts. Some communities, especially low-income and marginalized urban communities, have significantly less access …
Do you garden? We have a growing garden that primarily grows food for our family. Here are the goals I hope to accomplish related to our regenerative garden in the coming six months. Each year, I’ve made our garden a little bigger. Although the previous owners created the fenced in space and left four raised …
Get kids interested in gardening by starting a pizza garden with kids! Most kids know and love pizza, so they’ll be pumped to grow something they look forward to eating. Check out what to plant in a pizza garden below. For more resources on growing a pizza garden with kids, check out this post that …
