Beyond The Garden

Live your best life! Learn about the different things you can do with your harvest, the latest healthy lifestyle trends, and ways you can make an impact outside of the garden.

Reduce Your Water Footprint with Pucs

Tammy Clayton

Everyone is concerned about the amount of available fresh water. The rant on the amount of water wasted on gardens and lawns has been raging for years, but no one is worried about the volume of fresh water wasted in the form of ice cubes. And waste it is too. Ice cubes are beyond unsustainable…

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Latte Is Good for Your Memory?

Drink up! You’re addiction to coffee is not unnatural at all. The latest buzz is that scientists have discovered that bees flock to the blooms on a Coffea plant like humans trafficking coffee shops. Bee brain specialist (huh?!), Geraldine Wright of Newcastle University says this is a come-hither maneuver on the part of the plant. A little…
March 9, 2013
Tammy Clayton

Jurassic Leaves: 15 Million Year Old Foliage

Finding fossils with plant leaves, flowers and fruit turned to stone is nothing new, but in Northern Idaho a vast deposit of still fresh leaves have been discovered. Totally amazing! What’s more some of the species that have been found have been extinct so long that no one knows what they are. The experts working…
October 16, 2012
Tammy Clayton