Our critiques of books, movies, anything we have an opinion about.
Ranter James Rousch recently lamented that Garden Literature is going Up in Smoke, based on his count of 87 pot-growing books currently on offer at the local Barnes and Noble. [...]
Timber Press managed to do the impossible and get thirty gardeners to each stop what they were doing all at once and sit down and write something about why [...]
Like many of you, I stopped watching garden shows on HGTV when they effectively dropped the "G". But during my recent adventure in the buying and selling of houses - [...]
Recently I've noticed a bumper crop of talks promoting something I'd never heard of before - forest gardening and the "food forests" or "edible forest gardens" that result from it. [...]
Please welcome Debra Prinzing, author of The 50 Mile Bouquet, a documentary-style book that takes a fascinating and in-depth look at local, not global, flower-growing. We're giving another copy away, but you're going [...]
Landscape architect Thomas Rainer (whose blog Grounded Design I've raved about) recently spoke to a rapt audience at the National Arboretum's Native Plant Symposium, addressing the big question - how to create a [...]
If you keep chickens, you probably already have a book or two by Gail Damerow. She's the author of The Chicken Health Handbook, which is the What To Expect When [...]
I feel like this every time a new edition of the Sunset Western Garden Book arrives. (I wish I could just embed that video--that would be so awesome--but copyright protections [...]
In the last year or so, we're hearing that there are better uses for our land than turfgrass, that unless it's needed for sport or play, you can save on [...]
The people at Urban Farm magazine sent me a stack of recent issues to check out, much to my delight. I've always loved Hobby Farms, the magazine that is sort [...]
This book is being hailed as the "horticultural publishing event of the year" and that's probably no exaggeration. Professor Michael A. Dirr is THE MAN when it comes to woody [...]
I must have read every book ever published about “sustainable gardening” – surely there aren’t any more of them! – but still I was eager to read the latest on [...]
