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 […]
8 Wild Greens: More Superfoods for Sustainable Agriculture
Before agriculture and the food system supersized everything from size and sugar content to shelf life and shippability, people turned to plentiful plants in the wild. Some see these not as superfoods, but as subsistence foods. Considering the robust vigor of native and naturalized plants, and their ability to thrive year after year with no […]
8 Tips for Healthy Crops in Pots
Edible container gardens can provide you with a continual abundance of homegrown vegetables, herbs, and fruit. With these tips for healthy crops in pots, you can save money and improve your health with delicious, freshly picked ingredients. Tuck in! 1. Watering Adequate moisture is essential. It’s easier to kill your plants by overwatering than underwatering. […]
Keyhole Garden: Growing & Composting Combo
A drought-tolerant garden is a must in places where it’s consistently hot and dry through the summer months, making a keyhole garden of huge interest to people in the southwestern US! But there are more benefits to building this kind of garden, like saving precious water and creating perfect organic fertilizer. A keyhole garden is […]
Fresh Catch: Aquaponics News
Despite those who can’t see the importance of adopting highly sustainable methods of growing food, the interest in and practice of aquaponics continues to spread to more places in the world. Normally, I’d share one new item, but this week there are several. Why wait till some are stale? Muscat, Oman: There have been aquaponics […]
3 Ways to Know Your Farmer
With what consumers today know about the practices in place in the food system, you’re wise to question where your food comes from, and how it was raised and processed. From avoiding chemicals and GMOs to boycotting industrial farming, and getting the most health benefits from what you eat – there are lots of people […]
5 Growing Hydroponic Trends
In the fall of 2012 when we launched our original website the world at large viewed hydroponics much differently than today. Most news related to hydroponic gardening were pot growing busts, followed by a smattering of school biology projects, and some food producer startups. There were actually places in the world brimming with technology where […]
Organic Food: Costco Trumps Whole Foods
Is it really surprising that a discount store surpasses an upper end grocer in sales of organic food? Not in a country where everyone wants everything at the lowest price possible. Faced with the choice of buying pesticide-free, gmo-free foods from the whole paycheck store or the cost cutter store, even the most discerning shopper will […]
London’s 1st Commercial Aquaponic Farm
It’s also a first for all of the United Kingdom. An exciting milestone for Kate Hofman and Tom Webster at GrowUp Box, who have finally had their dream come to fruit. After a couple years of growing tilapia and veg in a traveling shipping container with a greenhouse on the roof, the team has the […]
The Plant Reinvents The Urban Farm
There’s something amazing quietly growing on the Southwest side of Chicago, an unprecedented urban farming initiative known as, The Plant. It was hard to decide what category to put this post in, because John Edel’s vision and progress could fit in several here on Garden Culture, but since they describe themselves as a ‘vertical farm’ […]