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Lifestyle
The White House Garden: Not Organic?
The White House garden has been a big success so far, with more than 1,000 pounds of food grown last year. Those veggies and herbs have gone to...
GOOD Projects
Why Killing Your Lawn Is a Good Idea—And How to Do It
Want to plant something that makes more sense than grass this summer? Here are a few different ways to commit herbicide.
Lifestyle
Superb Idea: Supermarket Vegetable Packaging Helps You Grow Your Own
British art student Ben Huttly's vegetable packaging is 100 percent biodegradable; what's more, the labels are embedded with seeds.
Cities
The Back Garden Project: An Introduction
When I moved in to my current apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, a run-down but decent-sized 1.5 bedroom on Dekalb Avenue, one of the biggest...
Culture
Hidden America: A Queer Gardening Homestead in Rural Tennessee
Check out this fantastic, self-sustaining LGBT community in the middle of the Bible Belt.
Cities
How to Grow an Edible, Vertical Garden in Five Steps
It’s hard to believe but, yes, spring is on its way. And with it all kinds of wonderful green things like arugula, celery, and cherry tomatoes....
Environment
A Dirty Word: Should Dirt and Soil Be Used Interchangeably?
When British transplant Sami Grover found himself co-opting the Americanism "dirt" in a blog piece about the rising trend of using soil in...
Lifestyle
Now We Have Flower Grenades
These flower grenades take seed bombs to a new, more literal level. It would be cool if the shrapnel were somehow made of fertilizer. I think...
Lifestyle
Everything Starts with a Seed
Support your regional seed saver. When Tom Stearns was 19, he started saving seeds from his garden and sharing them with friends. He learned...
The Community Board
Tips for Choosing a Hobby Greenhouse Kit
You can have fun with your greenhouse gardening hobby all year round with a hobby greenhouse. A hobby greenhouse can be as small as an enclosed...
Cities
HOW TO: Grow an Edible School Garden
For a lot of families, growing their own garden is something akin to that big trip abroad: a great idea in theory, but hard to actually make...
The Community Board
10 DIY Garden Hacks
Matt Embrey at Green Upgrader has compiled a great list of hacks for your home garden. I'm definitely going to try numbers 1, 6 and 10. 1....
The Community Board
Tomato Potato 2: Collecting Resources
Okay, so if you noticed our first post, we're going to start a garden in our asphalt backyard in downtown LA (see profile picture). After a while...
The Community Board
Food, Inc. NOT... It could be this simple...
AccessibleVegetables: A simple human movement that makes fresh fruit, veggies, nuts, herbs freely available to all. Like a shameless food bank,...
The Community Board
A Culinary Renaissance in Brooklyn
My best friend began making pasta in our tiny, Brooklyn kitchen a couple of years ago. She would drape her freshly made linguini over clothing...
The Community Board
Grow Your Own Fresh Air
Check out this great post on cleantechnica featuring some info and a TED talk about the three plants you need to produce all the fresh air we...
News
Where's My Chia Obama?
I was shocked to learn moments ago that the Chia Obama was pulled from the shelves of Walgreens, and the above (very real) commercial pulled...
The Community Board
One Thousand New Gardens
Last year during a lunch time conversation, my friend Max and I worried about the disappearance of arable land around our community. Where will...
