If the act of playing in the mud doesn’t suit your style anymore, it is time to get digging, planting and weeding with some of the nice, new, ergonomic gardening tools. The first day I took a road trip with my gardening friend Shelley, I fell in love. Instantly I could see how the plants [...]

School’s out for another year and the kids are tugging at your sleeves. “Mom, what’s there to do?”
Without camp, without after school sports, and with no interest in digging along side you in the garden, children are wondering what to do and, for at least part of the day, need some structured activity. Sadly, most [...]

As discussed on a previous page, there are a multitude of reasons to garden organically. Vegetables are extra beneficial, the most important of which is for your and your family’s health.
Once you’ve decided to grow an organic vegetable garden you ensure your vegetables are in their purest form, without causing any cancer-producing free radicals in [...]

One of my favorite gardens since I moved to the country is my herb garden.
I don’t know why, but food started tasting better to me since I left the city, largely in part, I believe to having fresh herbs on hand and knowing how to use them in my cooking.
I don’t use herbs just to [...]

If you garden, flowers or vegetables, you either have a compost pile or you want one. At least you should want one. Compost heaps, bins, buckets or piles put to use all the organic waste left over from grass clippings to leaves, dead plants and vegetables that are of no human use.
Unfortunately, too many families [...]