The artichoke plant is a uniquely beautiful and edible plant that is a hardy addition to any yard or garden. A large thistle with firey purple blooms, growing artichokes is easy. Artichoke season will have you cooking artichokes in a variety of ways and enjoying delicious artichoke hearts! About Artichoke Plants Artichokes (Cynara cardunculus var….
Growing Vegetables
Growing vegetables in your backyard garden is rewarding for both body and mind!
Whether you want to learn how to choose the right seeds for your garden, grow root crops such as potatoes, or line your garden with a hedge of raspberries, we'll help you make your vegetable garden a success!
Walking Onions: How to Grow, Eat, and Benefit
Walking onions are a fun and delicious addition to your permaculture garden or food forest. Also known as tree onions or Egyptian walking onions, these are hardy plants that pretty much take care of themselves. Beneficial for health and the garden, walking onions are a sight to see and earn the space to “walk” in…
12 Best Permaculture Books for Garden Planning
Permaculture books are an asset to any permaculturist or any gardener aspiring to learn about permaculture design. If you’ve ever wondered what exactly permaculture is, and how to start or progress your permaculture garden, these books have the answers. From beginner to the most seasoned permaculture gardener, you’ll find everything you need to know about…
8 Ways to Eat Radishes and Radish Greens
Radishes are a vegetable that are sometimes hard for people to get excited about. The truth is that radishes are amazing! Not only that, but they are a tasty treat straight from the dirt, no processing required. The best part is you get two veggies in one, the root and the greens – yes you…
How to Save Tomato Seeds by Fermenting
In many instances, saving seeds is pretty easy. Cut open a butternut squash, scoop out the seeds, put a few on a paper towel to dry, and there you go. With some veggies, like zucchini and cucumbers, you need to let a few get pretty big – bigger than you’d want to eat, so that…
How to Choose the Right Seeds for Your Garden
It’s that time of year when those of us with the gardening bug find extreme pleasure in pouring over seed catalogs. I must admit it’s one of my favorite winter pastimes. I will be circling and highlighting and dreaming of all the seeds that I want to buy for my little garden! Today I’m going…
Growing and Foraging for Raspberries (and their leaves!)
We lucked into a raspberry patch at our place, that much is for sure. Such a welcome surprise to discover! Not only has it given us wonderful berries for the past couple of months, but it has also provided us with medicinal leaves that we have been drying and storing for use throughout the coming…
How to Grow Potatoes
When is the last time you ate a potato? I bet it was somewhat recently. I have to admit that, even though it’s unusual for me, I had a handful of potato chips this afternoon! Not the healthiest option, but sometimes that’s how life goes. But, the real question is, have you ever had a…
Grow in Winter Part 3: Regrow Veggies and Order Seeds!
This is Part 3 in my Grow in Winter Series, check out Part 1: Herbs! and Part 2: Sprouts! Ok, two small posts in one today. We’re going to regrow veggies and order seeds! Re-Grow Vegetables from Scraps First off, I’m going to show you something that you may have seen before, but I think…
How to Grow Sprouts
When there’s not a lot of fresh produce coming out of your garden in these colder months, it’s time to grow right in your own kitchen! Today I’m going to show you how to grow sprouts, the ultimate hippie food for good reason with their extremely high nutritional content. I am seriously excited about this…
