Raised Garden Beds - What Are the Advantages?
If your gardening experience could be easier, take less time, demand less effort and be kinder to your back, would you be more motivated to start this healthy project? Let’s look at ways this method of gardening can make life easier for you. Read more…
Gardening and Personal Sustainability
The time to learn and prepare to grow your own food is before you need to grow it. If a situation arises that prevents you from getting the food you need from the store or local produce stands, it’s a little late to start growing a garden. Now is the time to start, and in temperate climates gardening can be a year-round activity with food growing almost all the time. Read more…
Soil – the First Step to Gardening Success
Soil is the foundation of our health. Plants and what they produce are among a large portion of the food we eat, and they receive what they need to be their best and do their best from soil, air, moisture, and sunshine. Take the soil out of the picture and there is no picture!
Without soil, life cannnot be sustained. Soil is the Read more…
Composting – Giving Back to the Earth
Composting is nature’s recycling center. The Earth provides for us and in turn, we must replenish with what is needed to recreate the gifts originally given! Since we take from the Earth, we must give back or her cup will run empty of the natural resources necessary to sustain the vegetation around us, both as food and as ornamental visual pleasure. Read more…