Planet Veggie Garden

I watched a clip with Ed Begley Jr. the CBS Sunday Morning show. He’s been a long time environmentally aware person.
His house is modest and solar powered. He dug up his lawn and replaced it with edibles. (He also has a TV show, book and non-toxic cleaning product line.)
The reporter asked Ed: What can the [...]

How many of you gardeners out there are a bit lonely in your gardening “hobby”… how many of you have friends and family that – when they see or hear about your garden – say “that’s nice dear” and steer the conversation away from such “fringe” activities?
That may change in the future. Home veggie gardens [...]

…all 197,000 square feet of living roof at the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The entire roof of the new CAS is covered with planting medium and planted with 1.7 million plants. Wow, I want one of those!
How lucky are chef’s Charles Phan and Loretta Keller when they can [...]

So what if 40% of our produce was grown by amateurs… “home hobby gardeners”?
If I use press articles as an indicator, there’s definitely more resonance with grow your own food these days.
A number of seed companies (in the US and UK) have commented that veggie seeds outsold flower seeds in 2006-07 – the first time [...]

We’re in a Victory Garden revival period.
It’s commonly believed the Victory Garden movement started during World War II… and it did… under that title.
It’s predecessor was the War Garden which started during World War I.
The intentions were similar… have the population produce most of the food they need to free up large [...]

Quick… what word did the New Oxford American Dictionary deem word of the year for 2007…
LOCAVORE
A locavore is one who eats locally grown food. Local often defined as grown within 100 miles.
So Carnivore – meat eating.
Vegetarian – vegetable (and fruit eating)… shouldn’t it be a Vegavore?
Locavore – engages in the sustainable practice of [...]

Gardening can be expensive… and it can be inexpensive.
Craigslist is a rather interesting resource.
It started out many years ago as a type of bulletin board for San Francisco area folks. Initially it was mostly about events/places/things to do. It expanded from there to a huge classifieds type site. Real estate for rent and for [...]