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Spotted: A Secret Garden for Your Kitchen

Spotted: A Secret Garden for Your Kitchen

By Karen MacKay on June 14, 2012

Designer Peter Buley has given his Hydroponic Kitchen Island a makeover.

As part of the Models Citizens NYC show last month, Peter Buley (a.k.a Analog Modern) exhibited the most recent version of his Hydroponic Kitchen Island Mk.11. Fully enclosed within a solid maple frame, an ebb and flow hydroponic system grows herbs using LED and CFL lighting.

Category: Concept+Design, Furniture, Home+Decor, Living, Yard+Garden | Tags: Analog Modern, CFL, garden, herbs, hydroponic, LED, Peter Buley, plants

Spotted: Indoor Herb Garden

Spotted: Indoor Herb Garden

By Becky Striepe on December 30, 2011

One of the best ways to keep growing food in the winter, if you don’t have a green house or hoop house, is to keep some food plants indoors. I love this indoor herb garden, featuring mint, parsley, and rosemary all in one pot!

Category: Food+Drink, Home+Decor, Living | Tags: gardening, growing food, herbs, indoor gardening, indoor herb garden

10 Killer DIY Garden Hacks

10 Killer DIY Garden Hacks

By LiveOAK Staff on August 6, 2009

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 for excuses when [...]

Category: DIY, Yard+Garden | Tags: compact garden, DIY, garden, gardening, grow, hacks, herbs, list, planter, vegetables

Space Saving DIY Upside Down Herb Planters

Space Saving DIY Upside Down Herb Planters

By LiveOAK Staff on July 28, 2009

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 [...]

Category: Yard+Garden | Tags: compact garden, DIY, garden, gardening, herbs, reuse, space saver, urban gardening

Bring The Garden Inside for Mother's Day

Bring The Garden Inside for Mother’s Day

By LiveOAK Staff on May 4, 2008

Upgrade Moms with a green thumb will appreciate this pre-seeded indoor/outdoor garden-ready heirloom tomato pot. All mom has to do is stick it in the ground or in her kitchen to grow delicious, juicy heirloom tomatoes. This eco-friendly container garden is made from renewable & biodegradable rice husks. it is freeze and thaw resistant, has [...]

Category: Gift Guides, Home+Decor | Tags: garden, herbs, Mother's Day

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