Raising Chickens and Urban Gardening
“Eat the rainbow” is familiar advice for getting a variety of fruits and vegetables into our diets. But gardeners have an advantage: we can grow the rainbow, including colorful varieties of vegetables we rarely see at the grocery store. A home garden can certainly produce red tomatoes, but why not try yellow, orange, or purple? Think beans are only green?…
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I’m in my garden, looking at a jungle: before me is a tangle of cherry tomatoes in various stages of ripening… and blossoming. The next bed over holds the indeterminate beefsteaks—the biggies we wait for all summer. There, I’m seeing more of the same: some ripening, some mature greenies, and a whole lot of small green marbles staring back at…
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“I just want to cry,” a distraught gardening friend told me. “Everything I planted this spring is just sitting there—there’s hardly any growth, and some plants look strange.” With a sinking feeling, I asked about herbicide use, disease, watering issues, or other stresses. There were none – nothing unusual. And one more question… have any amendments been added to the…
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New Gardening Class for Fall 2026 Discover how easy and rewarding it is to grow your own garlic! This class covers everything you need to know, from choosing the best varieties for our northern climate to planting, growing, harvesting, curing, and storing your crop. You’ll also learn the differences between hardneck, softneck, and elephant garlic, how to harvest delicious garlic…
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