Grow Your Own

Whether you love flowers, fruits, veggies, herbs, or all of the above, follow our step-by-step guides to growing them organically in the comfort of your own home.

5 Easy Edible Plants You Can Grow At Home

Jesse Singer

Being able to grow some of your own food has always been a worthy goal. But in light of the current situation we all find ourselves in – isolated in our homes – the goal seems even more necessary these days.  However, necessary or not, many of us have thumbs that are as far from…

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Plant A Seed Day Sheds Light On Pressing Global Issues

The 2020 edition of Plant a Seed Day takes place on March 19th, and people around the world are being encouraged to participate. Such a simple action can help solve critical problems. Access to affordable, nutritious food remains one of the world’s most pressing issues, and with the current spread of COVID-19, that has never…
March 16, 2020
Catherine Sherriffs

Featured Flower: Rare And Stunning Orchids On Display

Attention all orchid lovers! The 75th Annual Santa Barba International Orchid Show takes place this weekend, offering visitors a chance to admire rare and endangered blooms typically seen in native habitats of Central and South America, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Horticulturists and flower enthusiasts from around the world flock to the Earl Warren Showgrounds to…
March 13, 2020
Catherine Sherriffs

Five Perennial Plants For The Veggie Patch

It’s an exciting time of year when many gardeners are busy flipping through seed catalogs and selecting new fruit and vegetable varieties for the upcoming growing season. Have you considered creating a perennial food garden? Perennial plants are popular because you sow them once and they come back year after year.  While maintaining a perennial…
February 26, 2020
Catherine Sherriffs

Garden Strategies to Cope with Drought – Part 2

In part 1, we looked at strategies for sustainable water management practices to help with collecting and storing water. However, there are other ways we can protect our gardens and help them survive through periods of limited rainfall and hot temperatures while providing us with food.  Design and utilize microclimates  For the last ten years,…
January 15, 2020
Anne Gibson

Garden Strategies to Cope with Drought – Part 1

Australia. It’s hot, bone dry, smokey, and windy across much of this country. Drought and fires have devastated communities with no respite on the horizon. It’s not that these conditions are unexpected, but when all these harsh weather factors occur at once or in succession, the stress and impacts are catastrophic. The prolonged drought conditions…
January 13, 2020
Anne Gibson