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Protecting Your Herb Garden for the Winter

Preparing your herb garden for the coming winter can actually be done in late summer or early fall. In order to prepare your garden for winter, do not fertilize when you are within about one month of a fir...

By: Larry Gildea

How to Build an Herb Garden

Unlike many other plants, all herbs need to thrive is plenty of sun and a little bit of water. They do not require any sort of spraying, trimming or fertilizing and can grow in almost any type of soil, so ...

By: Lee Dobbins

Bonsai Care

The very word "bonsai" conjures so many thoughts to many people. Almost a warrior sound yet in reality the word bonsai implies a miniature tree. Where Bonsai Started. Most of us a...

By: Peter H Williams

"One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides." W.E. Johns Iplan out my gardening chores like army maneuvers, inching up, day by day, to the final battle scene: fal...

Two documentary filmmakers plant vegetables in the back of a pickup truck to show that food can be grown just about anywhere.

CHELAN ? Stan Morse always wanted to grow potatoes in his backyard. But despite his passion for gardening, the Chelan lawyer and city councilman never had ? until this year. The loose dirt in a tradit...

What started has a way to give something back to the community has become a passion for Tonya Carney, one of the volunteer organizers behind the Inland Empire Organic Produce Buying Club in Redlands. ...

This past weekend I took my family to the Green Expo in Washington DC. Green Expo is a series of consumer shows around the country...

Robbie Bos likes to grow things. He?s hoping other people in the Valley feel the same.

Senegal's main university hospital has established an organic garden to provide free, healthy meals for AIDs disease patients. Dakar's National University Hospital is one of the country's busiest.

There are no laws against bonfires just follow the rules and be careful of the hedgehogs

Speakers, field trips planned for Fullerton event on Saturday focusing on the environment.

Farming and social justice are not usually named in the same sentence, but for Jill Landes of Living Hope Farm, the two are inextricably linked. Not surprising, considering the farm?s heritage has a m...