by guest blogger Maya Rodale, author of smart and sassy romance novels You might expect that, as a Rodale, I grew up gardening. This is sort of true—I mainly grew up reading in the yard while my mom gardened and I occasionally helped with the weeding. And I enjoyed the fruits of her labors. It […]
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Five Pictures of Spring
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Cultivating Wildness
For all of you lazy buns out there who don’t want to start a garden but still want to help heal nature (and humanity, by the way), I have an idea for you. Take a piece of your yard—any piece—and make it a designated wilderness zone. Cultivate some wildness! It seems a little scandalous, doesn’t […]
5 Reasons Why This Is the Most Important Year Ever to Start a Garden
Sure, every year is a great year to start a vegetable garden, but this year I kind of realized how Noah must have felt when he decided it might be a good time to build an ark. I first got the feeling when I saw all the dead and dry fields of California. A little […]
Organic Gardening’s Going to School
by guest blogger Ethne Clarke, editor-in-chief, Organic Gardening Within the past few weeks, organicgardening.com did something even more amazing that usual. We posted “Dig, Plant, Grow!” a curriculum designed to assist teachers who wish to make an edible garden for their schools. School gardens are an asset that should be part of every learning system, […]
Note to Self: Plant Shishito Peppers Next Year
I first had shishito peppers at my favorite New York City neighborhood Japanese “pub” Izakaya Ten. After a long day at work, slipping into its warm, eclectic, and simple embrace, I know I’m about to eat some very tasty and nourishing food. (No sake, though. I don’t drink, remember?) Having been to Japan once, Izakaya […]
Callicarpa: A Must-Have for Fall
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When I first saw Callicarpa, otherwise known as beautyberry, I thought it was a joke of some sort. Or perhaps a modern invention for gardeners who want a certain color of purple in their garden. It seems too bright, too purple, and too candy-colored to be true. But then I read about John Bartram and […]
What an Extra $10 at Your
Farmers Market Can Do
by guest blogger Susan Sink, vice president of development and external affairs for the American Farmland Trust We all have seen it: endless miles of malls, parking lots, and red lights in a world scaled for bulldozers and cars but not humanity. The sprawl of unchecked development eating into the fertile lands closest to our […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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