Art Glass: Bottles in the Sun

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Liz Grotyohann .

Western Art Glass creates amazing art from reclaimed bottles: building a mobile from beer bottle bottoms, or wrestling a curving leaf from the side of a discarded wine bottle.

Gardening and Wine Drinking: A Match Made in DIY Heaven?

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Becky Striepe .

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We love to entertain and hate to toss out anything that might prove useful later on. Of course, what that means is quite a little collection of empty wine bottles and the corks to match.
Luckily, it’s time to get our Fall garden planted, and our boozy hoarding behavior might just pay off!

Truck Farm: the Concrete Jungle’s Mobile Garden

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Matt Embrey .

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I am intrigued with the creative way concrete jungle dwellers are finding ways to grow gardens whether it’s through yardsharing or fire escape farming, and now, Truck Farms. Film makers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, the creative minds behind King Corn and The Greening of Southie are proving that you can garden anywhere with their [...]

10 Killer DIY Garden Hacks

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Matt Embrey .

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Gardening is one of the most rewarding home hobbies you can do. It’s fun, sustainable and you get healthy, tasty results. A lot of people like the idea of gardening but find excuses like it’s too time consuming, it’s too expensive, they don’t have enough space, blah blah blah. There’s no room [...]

Space Saving DIY Upside Down Herb Planters

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Matt Embrey .

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I was reading some comments on an organic gardening post in which apartment dweller were lamenting that they don’t have the room to garden. Don’t tell that to Mike Lieberman (@CanarsieBK), the force behind UrbanOrganicGardener.com. Actually, I’m sure he’d be happy to hear from you and he’d share some great tips, like these upsidedown hanging [...]

DIY Vertical Herb Garden with a Shoe Organizer

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Matt Embrey .

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Confounded by vegetable digging cats and toiling in the vegetable patch, Instructables member pippa5 came up with this cool DIY vertical garden solution. In case you don’t recognize it, she used an old closet shoe organizer. Meant to keep your shoes off the floor and save you some space, this new use saves some space [...]

Beautiful Garden Accessories From Can Misprints

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Paula Mitchell Bentley .

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If plants could read, they’d definitely be inspired to grow by this wall hanging. A designer from VivaTerra managed to get his hands on misprinted cans from several different factories. The printing on them is crooked or incomplete but that doesn’t make them garbage when viewed from the eye of an upcycler. These items definitely show that one person’s garbage is another’s treasure. The designer has re-purposed these cast off cans into a range of colorful products that are definitely worth taking a peek at.

DIY Vertical Garden with Reclaimed Gutters

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Matt Embrey .

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This is really a great space saving idea for those with green thumbs and not enough yard to exercise them. Personally I think these would go great along a deck railing or cut down to be mini-window boxes. So next time someone you know replaces their gutters snatch them up and give them a new lives as planters.

10 Great Resources for Organic and Heirloom Garden Seeds

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Derek Markham .

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It’s time to get some seeds in the ground for this year’s garden, and if you want to ensure the very best quality organic produce, you need to start with organic or heirloom seeds. If you purchase from a reputable seed merchant, you can be confident that you aren’t planting GMO seeds or any hybrids [...]

Mio For Target - Environmentally Responsible Outdoor Living Products

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Doug Gunzelmann .

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The Salm brothers, Isaac and Jaime, of Mio Design have become strange bedfellows with none other than corporate giant Target. Mio emphasises “environmentally and socially progressive design” and hope to promote their ideas and accomplishments through Target.