Home Vegetable Gardening: Terms You Should Get to Know

Sowing This term refers to the depth at which you plant a seed. It varies by plant variety and seed size. A typical rule of thumb is the smaller the seed to more shallow it has to be planted. The reason being is each seed as built into it the ability to push through the [...]

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How-to-Guides & Manuals – Mushrooms

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USDA Zones…Gardener Powered!

Our zone map is created by thousands of gardeners from all around the world. Sign up and add your zone!
Search by address on this map to find your local USDA Zone! (anywhere in the world)
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How to Compost: Composting Instructions

Don’t be intimidated by composting! Composting is easy to do, and this guide is full of tips on how to get the best results.
If you don’t have time to read this whole site right now, no problem!
Just remember that all organic material breaks down. Even if you just toss your yard debris into a hole [...]

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Vegetable Gardening Ideas

Planning Your Vegetable Garden
So, where to begin?
First of all, think small. Get the hang of growing a vegetable garden first and then expand. I grow more vegetables in a small, well-cared for garden that in a large garden I can’t control.
There are a number of choices that need to be made prior to planting your [...]

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Cam’s Top Five Not-so-Common-Tips for Edible Gardening

The basics are covered in a thousand books, so here are a few tips you don’t come across quite so often.

Design. A few extra hours spent thinking about your garden layout can save you many heart-aches, head-aches and back-aches down the track. Permaculture and Organic gardening books are a good place to start, a PDC [...]

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Talks Michael Pollan gives a plant’s-eye view

What if human consciousness isn’t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn’s clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant’s-eye view.
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20 Ways Farmers Can Improve Their Marketing Chops

Farmers are business people, alchemists, scientists, economists, and stewards of the land. But sometimes they need help with that most basic and necessary of skills: marketing. Last week I sat in on a Cornell Agriculture extension seminar on the power of storytelling.
Herewith a modest partial list of ways for farmers to craft a story around [...]

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Join Hyperlocavore to find or start a yard share in your town

Join hyperlocavore to find or start a yard share in your town. CSAs and community gardens fill up fast. Food is expensive! Grow together!
What we want to see: healthy kids who love the smell of dirt, blocks with foreclosed homes becoming vibrant neighborhoods again, tables full of delicious safe food at [...]

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Observe and Interact – Holmgren’s permaculture principle #1 & Obtain a Yield- Holmgren’s principle #3

Back in March of 2008 a friend of ours gave us a large bunch of leeks she collected from an abandoned lot in her neighborhood where they had perennialized. I divided the bunches into individual plants and set them out next to theasparagus beds. Never having heard of perennial leeks, I was eager to observe [...]

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