I really love Trace Ramsey’s writing at Cricket Bread; I’m always learning something over on his blog - this essay about becoming a farmer is a great example of the poetry and heart in his prose. He recently did a status update on his hugelkultur raised beds - I’d never heard of them before. They’re [...]
I’ve always really liked the proportions of Satsuma crates, and the labels are often charming, too. During a recent closet cleaning, I ran across one I’d tucked away and realized it would make a really cute mini-container garden.
I lined the box with a recycled plastic bag and poked some holes in it over the holes [...]
Andru in the UK built his own version of a plastic bottle greenhouse. He got his bottles through Freecycle, a great idea!
Here are some great plans for a recycled plastic bottle greenhouse from REAP, an organization in Scotland that works for sustainable development. via Hyperlocavore via Kitchen Mage
Homegrown Evolution has a good roundup up of washing machine greywater resources. I’ve thought about doing this, but my washer is in the basement, below ground level, and that makes things a lot more complicated.
I had a strawberry plant explosion this year - a few plants out back turned into hundreds, sending out runners and making little plants everywhere, even in my little bit of lawn! I’ve been digging them up and putting them in pots, giving them away; I even sold a box of them at our yard [...]
Wow - not just a rooftop garden, but a whole farm on top of an old bagel factory in New York! Serious Eats has the whole story.
Metafilter has an interesting discussion going about square foot gardening. It just got started yesterday, so there’s time to chime in!
We’ve still had some pretty cool weather here in Seattle - it’s still a bit too cold to plant tender veggies in the garden, but the trees are leafing out and everything looks very lush and green. (The picture above is of one of my tomato plants, spending its fourth night outside - it’s rainy [...]
Smith and Hawken is selling these vertical gardens (looks like they’re sold out). I’ve been trying to figure out how to go vertical with strawberries without going broke - I think I could make a cheaper version of this kind of system. It also doesn’t look all that stable on its own; something freestanding would [...]
