Truck Farm: the Concrete Jungle’s Mobile Garden

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Matt Embrey .

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 [...]

Coconut Husks Replace Peat Moss and Mulch in the Garden

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Paula Mitchell Bentley .

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Coconut shells can be used for other things besides making cute faces on Flickr or banging them together to pretend you’re riding a horse like Monty Python. Several companies are now distributing a range of gardening products made from coconuts husks. The hair of the coconut shell or coir can be easily used to supplement [...]

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.

Hyperlocavores, Yardsharing, and Distributed Urban CSA Farms

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Derek Markham .

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I’ve heard the cliché recently that “Local is the new organic.” In response to that, a buddy of mine said “No, local is the original organic.” And he’s right. In the last 100 years, our food system has gone from a local farm, kitchen garden, and green grocer model, to a globalized heavily travelled agri-industrial [...]

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 [...]

Spring Gardens Start With Winter Reading

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Derek Markham .

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It would be great if we could simply go outside and plant our garden after the last frost, water it and weed it, and then eat all summer from its produce. But the chances of pulling off a really good harvest in the garden without prior planning are pretty slim. Most first season gardeners have [...]

Zen in a Box: The Kibako Green Trunk

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Matt Embrey .

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For those who like to compartmentalize, French company Pinel & Pinel bring you Zen in a box with the Kibako Green Trunk. Part of their collection of trunks that put everything you’d need in a box of some kind, the green trunk lets you garden in a trunk. Outfitted with an 80w Osram horticultural light, [...]