This appears in the December/January edition of Organic Gardening magazine. For great gardening, cooking, and living tips, pick the issue up today! I learned about flowers from my mother. Her goal was to get the flowers planted before the Indy 500 was over, in late May, and up until her last few years she was […]
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DIY: A Festive Thanksgiving Centerpiece
By guest blogger designer Mark Kintzel During the Thanksgiving holiday, the last thing you want to deal with is fussing around with a centerpiece. Here’s an elegant solution: This bouquet using fresh vegetables is simple to make, beautiful, and bountiful. And after your guests have gone home, you can pluck out the veggies and eat […]
A Visit to My Kitchen: Mike Lieberman, the Urban Organic Gardener
Mike Lieberman is in my kitchen today talking about his personal connection to food, his addiction to his produce and his fear that we might be banned from growing our own food. Mike Lieberman started urban gardening and growing some of his own food in May 2009 on his fire escape in New York City. […]
Growing A Greener World: The Rodale Institute!
Watching yourself on TV is kind of weird. But I have to say, Joe Lamp’l (also known as “joe gardener”!) made it really easy for me. He’s one of the hosts of Growing a Greener World, a TV series on Public Television. Out of the blue, he and his cohost Patti Moreno (a.k.a. “Garden Girl”) […]
A Harvest of Healing
Why do we do it—garden—when it makes us sweaty, sore, and often cranky? By the end of the harvest season, our faces are red from cooking tomatoes and putting up food either into the pantry or the freezer. Our hands are calloused and nails dirty. And yet…and yet…when it’s all said and done and autumn […]
I Bet You Don’t Know Jack about Dirt!
By guest blogger Annie Spiegelman, a.k.a. the Dirt Diva. Throughout history we’ve seen civilizations rise and fall based on how they treated their land. Dirt! The Movie, by filmmakers Gene Rosow and Bill Benenson, is a film based on the book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, by William Bryant Logan. Both the book […]
It’s Perennial Love!
Today tomato week continues with a very special treat…a short film that celebrates our passion for tomatoes by featuring passion and tomatoes. Perennial Love is perhaps the first romantic melodrama with an all-botanical cast. There’s romance, drama, mystery…and plenty of lycopene. Tomatoes in love! We hope you enjoy it. But be forewarned…there was too much […]
Bronx Green-Up Wants New Yorkers to Make Friends with Worms
By guest blogger Annie Spiegelman, a.k.a. the Dirt Diva. Last month I had the privilege of signing copies of my new book, Talking Dirt, (Penguin Group, 2010) at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Am I shamelessly promoting my book here? Of course I am! But mostly, I want to tell the world […]
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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