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So! Sunset magazine stopped by a few months ago. It was great fun hanging out with a couple of pros all day and watching them work. (Oh, and there was [...]
The beloved/hated/always buzzworthy Plant Delights catalog cover has done it again, with its just-released 2013 version. And what a hoot that the Ranters are all there! (Upper left). So now [...]
Thanks once again to my Hollywood brother for this one, who actually managed to cast an actor to do most of the heavy lifting.
Shutterstock image ... grow the YCGT campaign! Happy endings to stories that involve corporations vs. individuals are all too rare, so we’re very pleased to report that garden [...]
When, in the course of social media events, it becomes necessary for a group of bloggers to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with a bunch of well-intentioned [...]
We've long been admirers of Don Engebretson, the Renegade Gardener. We love his funny and spot-on yearly awards so much, we recommend them again and again and again. He's given [...]
1. It’s called Grow the Good Life: Why a Vegetable Garden Will Make You Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise (Rodale). Note the statement—GROW the good life. Not “Here’s how to [...]
In her article "The Best Gardening Periodicals, Forums and Blogs", Barbara Damrosch recommends two blogs. First, Kitchen Gardeners International's blog, then: "The other blog is Garden Rant (www.gardenrant.com ), which [...]
First, who IS this guy? Why, it's Mike Nowak, garden writer and Chicago-area radio personality. And personality he has in spades, as evidenced by his going snark-to-snark and rant-to-rant with [...]
My visit to Buffalo for the garden bloggers' meeting was eye-opening in many ways. It was really fun to meet all the different personalities in this world, including the extremely [...]
Pick up the June 2009 issue and you'll notice a familiar face - our own Michele Owens urging us to "forget the myth of the $20 tomato". Her practical and [...]
Picture me last week, relaxing at the beach in North Carolina, swimming daily, using SPF 40 under a tent, trying not to mix the margaritas much before 5 p.m.—but fie! [...]
