Farmers of Fungi: Growing Mushrooms and Mycorrhizae in Your Vegetable Patch
In the last 40 years, human understanding of fungi, and their role…
Your Medicinal Garden: Ten Herbs to Plant This Spring
Come spring, the nursery catalogs will be arriving in the mail. All…
The Three Sisters Legacy: The Science Behind Companion Planting
There’s nothing quite as frustrating as having some know-it-all tell you why…
Permaculture: The Truly Sustainable Way of Life
What is Permaculture? Permanent agriculture. A system for feeding and caring for…
Bats & Guano: Gifts From the Garden Gods
Say the words feces, scat, feculence, crap, caca, and a shovel-full of…
Inside a Sharecropper’s Garden: Growing Food in the Inner-city
Birgitt Evans has been gardening since she was a child. Now a…
Going Full Circle: A Journey Back to Sustainable Agriculture
There are many reasons why people are drawn to the homesteading lifestyle…
Ruth Stout: The No-Dig Duchess
In the early 1980s, I went to Sussex, England to study small-scale…
How the Ancients Farmed
Mrs. Cro-Magnon just got home with a basket of berries and tubers;…
Poor Man’s Greenhouse
Winter has almost set in, and on most homesteads, vegetable production has…
Bowery Farming: An Interview with Co-Founder and CEO Irving Fain
When Irving Fain started Bowery Farms he had a dream; to provide…
Overwintering Vegetables for Early Spring Harvests
When I first started gardening, as a total greenhorn, I thought that…