gardening

While there is nothing wrong with passively composting by just leaving your scraps alone in the compost bin, for those looking for a constant supply of compost for their lawn and garden would require a more active unit like a compost tumbler that turns your compost pile and keeps it aerated.

New company in SF will grow your vegetables for you in your own backyard. If you have extra space you can get a discount for allowing them to grow excess to sell to other urbanites.

Summer has officially arrived, which means for avid gardeners it is prime composting season. For those in need of gardening equipment such as compost bins or compost tumblers, there are many to choose from to start recycling a good portion of your garbage and live a more greener lifestyle.

There are many sustainable options when it comes to putting food on the table, from eating organic to choosing locally grown foods to avoiding animal products. But there’s nothing quite as truly sustainable, satisfying, and tasty as growing your own organic food.

A crumbling old retaining wall no more than four feet wide fronting a weed nest hole of the same size was wrecking the visual harmony of my house. Wouldn't it be nice, I thought, since there's already a hole dug out, to turn this into a little water feature with a bridge. That was twelve years ago and the beginning of my journey into being a pond keeper.

Throw away your petrol cans, wrap up your electrical cable! you wont be needing these with a hand lawn mower.

Find out a great idea this mom had about planting an extra row in her garden for the needy.  Her Eco-Wrap post includes some great links including the annoucement that she is officially a homeschooling mom. 

From the page: "The only way I garden is organically. Why use mainstream pesticides and herbicides when you can achieve the same thing organically?"  Find out what magazine this gardener reads to tackle gardening the organic way. 

The Food Map Container is just the place to start your relationship with mother earth over. With its high-tech curvilinear drainage system, this container will allow you to grow fresh fruits, veggies, and herbs with complete ease.

Over the years of organic gardening with children, I have learned to relinquish some control to perfect rows, perfect spacing, etc. Now, I have added seed and plant selection to the list of gardening enjoyments I now share with my children. It all started when the seed catalogs started arriving at the end of winter. Both of my children took an active interest in the pictures, so I suggested they start circling varieties they wanted to grow.

A round-up of ten of the best composting methods

Interview with Google's Gardener.

We're not eating mud, but price gouging and rice rationing have arrived in the U.S. What does this mean? Got any room in the backyard for a garden?

I want to share this Anastasia book series with earth lovers everywhere. They are solution orientated. They will redefine your sense of "green" and natural. Author Vladimir Megre. Explore life with in Siberia Russia with Anastasia.