Connecting kids with nature—a continuing struggle
Guest post by Doris Settles “What could our lives and our children’s lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?”—Richard [...]
Guest post by Doris Settles “What could our lives and our children’s lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?”—Richard [...]
Guest post by Natalie Levin Composted manure, blood meal, bone meal, and fish emulsion are popular soil amendments. We routinely use these materials in our gardens. But consider adding your own [...]
"I don’t give a damn about my bad reputation.” — Joan Jett Joan Jett’s predecessor, legendary rocker, Patti Smith, got pigeonholed as “Godmother of Punk.” Now a respected poet and [...]
Guest post by Joe Lamp'l Photo: Courtesy of The National Christmas Tree Association Buying an artificial Christmas tree and reusing it for years may seem like a more [...]
Guest post by S. B. Julian If you want a bit of life, go to the cemetery. You'll never be alone there, and I'm not talking about “dem bones dem [...]
By guest blogger S. B. Julian Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1933) is credited as one of the founders of England's lush, flower-rich, painterly cottage garden style of horticulture (she was a painter [...]
A guest rant by Kelly Baldry Our towns and cities are made up of thousands of individuals, many of whom will never pay to visit a garden, and perhaps have [...]
Guest post from Heather Olsen It was March 17. We had to leave the park earlier than the four-year-old wanted because the one-year-old needed a diaper change and a nap. [...]
Guest rant from Jack Kramer Our current home of eighteen years is sited on a one-and-a-half acre lot, originally part wooded and part field. I had told the builder to [...]
Guest rant by Jack Kramer Guess you could say I started gardening at about age four when I planted onion sets in my sandbox. That means I now have seventy-eight [...]
A guest post by Linda McGivern Here goes—though I really don’t want to admit it because you’ll hate me: I have a gardener. At my winter home in the Caribbean. [...]
Guest post by Ailsa Francis Nobody likes to stake plants, right? I have always felt that if a plant needed staking it was somehow an indication of my own ineptitude. [...]