Clearwater garden backers get OK for project
CLEARWATER — While the city has bigger growth plans for an empty lot east of downtown, what many residents hope to see growing there in the next couple of years are fruits and vegetables. The...
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Have the best plants in your neighbourhood by growing your garden know-how at community colleges. “One of the greatest things about gardening is that you can never know everything! Whether you want to...
View ArticleChartwells K12 and National Gardening Association Announce Exclusive...
CHICAGO, Feb. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Chartwells K12 today kicked-off a new partnership with the National Gardening Association/KidsGardening.org (NGA) to build gardens at schools nationwide in an...
View ArticleHarvest from your balcony
You can have the farm to fork experience, even with a simple terrace or balcony garden. With these usefultips from terrace gardening experts, you are sure to harvest beautiful produce in no time,...
View ArticleBeginning vegetable gardener's tips - Don't waste your harvest
Beginning vegetable gardeners might pick and choose veggies at harvest time. Do you toss the runts or harvest too early? Do you harvest too late? What do you do with that substandard produce? What if...
View ArticleGardens: the August checklist
Liven things up: Dan deadheading roses. Photograph: Jason Ingram/Observer Water works If water is scarce, save it for things that need it most – namely container-grown plants that are prone to drying...
View ArticleSeptember in the garden
It’s been a hot, humid summer, and it isn’t over yet. Rain in August really surprised us all and gave plants a bit of respite from the heat. Still, there is likely more heat to come before temperatures...
View ArticleThis National Eating Healthy Day, Let's Produce Results -- Like Planting a...
Growing up in Colorado, Kelly Meyer's kitchen was always stocked with fresh fruits and vegetables. The source of those bountiful harvests was her very own neighborhood. She wasn't raised on a farm....
View ArticleUCO Partners with Edmond Rankin YMCA to Create Community Garden (University...
(Source: University of Central Oklahoma) UCO Partners with Edmond Rankin YMCA to Create Community Garden July 31, 2014 Media Contact: Lindsay Houts, Staff Writer, UCO University Relations,...
View ArticlePick variety of delicious fruits from your garden
[...] thousands of fruit trees from that sale have been planted in metro Houston yards. In addition to the huge Urban Harvest sale, there are...
View ArticleUse mint for summer: Fresh from the garden always tastes better
If you planted a backyard garden, you should be seeing the results by now and, in fact, be close to harvesting the "fruit of your labors." Chances are you'll soon have more basil, tomatoes, cucumbers,...
View ArticleCommunity garden blooms at Dorothy Day Center (Saint Francis University)
(Source: Saint Francis University) July 16, 2014 By Kellie Himes, Occupational Therapy major, originally published in Saint Francis University Magazine Spring/Summer 2014 Have you ever taken a...
View ArticleProud to be from Pittsburgh: North Hills Community Outreach garden
Summer's bounty fills up the Rosalinda Sauro Sirianni Garden in Bellevue “We've got a couple of varieties of beans. We have purple, yellow, green,” garden coordinator Rosie Wise showed Channel 11 on a...
View ArticleCommunity garden to feed poor in works in Eastern Kentucky
RUSSELL, Ky. — A church and a hospital have joined forces in eastern Kentucky to help feed the poor with a 1,000-acre community garden. The Independent (http://bit.ly/1DpqpxM) reports Matthew Whitt...
View ArticleEducation, community, in bloom at Pacific's Robb Garden (University of the...
(Source: University of the Pacific) Campus Life Education, community, in bloom at Pacific's Robb Garden Pacific's Robb Garden, now in its second season, continues to be a valued community and campus...
View ArticleFeed the Poor from Your Garden
As you get ready to harvest your garden for the summer and reap its fruits, learn more about an unknown saint who is the patron saint of gardeners. He is especially popular with those who develop...
View ArticleGlorious time of year for your garden | Garden Column
The basics for a wonderful garden — sun, water, food By Lorraine Kiefer Once the midsummer solstice, the eve of St. John the Baptist (the longest period of daylight all year) and the 4th of July comes...
View ArticleBourke Street community garden set to grow (City of Sydney)
(Source: City of Sydney) Bourke Street community garden in Woolloomooloo will soon grow even bigger thanks to extra space from the City of Sydney for miniature fruit trees, new garden beds, a tool...
View ArticleYouth learn gardening at NMSU agricultural science center (New Mexico State...
(Source: New Mexico State University) Date: 08/17/2015 Writer: Jane Moorman, 505-249-0527, jmoorman@nmsu.edu In five New Mexico counties, public gardens provide communities with teachable moments and...
View ArticleFood gardens offer healthy rewards
The perks of gardening go beyond a beautiful yard or community park. This simple activity has a variety of healthy rewards. Food gardens, in particular, are not only sources of fresh and delicious...
View ArticleThrive Lonsdale Creating Community Garden Through City's Homemaker Program...
(Source: City of Knoxville, TN) A nonprofit group is creating a community garden in Lonsdale that will offer plots to local families, as well as fruit trees and berry bushes that will provide produce...
View ArticleProud to be from Pittsburgh: Grow Pittsburgh
For the people of Homewood, a neighborhood without a grocery store, a farm stand outside the YMCA is a welcome oasis in a food desert. The produce cart is one of two run by the nonprofit Grow...
View ArticleDon't lose the plot - allotments available now (North Hertfordshire District...
(Source: North Hertfordshire District Council) 29 August 2014 Gardening fans will already be aware that the month of September means harvesting season is getting underway and many people will be...
View ArticleDole Packaged Foods joins ShopRite, the Greater Newark Conservancy and...
Project Learning Garden Inauguration at Camden Street School in Newark, New Jersey Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dole Packaged Foods, LLC, a subsidiary of Dole International Holdings, is a leader in...
View ArticleTake care of your garden this summer
For gardeners, the tough times are just ahead. That means summer. The Piedmont summer, when heat hits and stays, rainfall is erratic as gardeners feel wilted, eager to escape to beach or mountains. Yet...
View ArticleCrowdfunding campaign launched for ‘East Side Community Garden and Farmers’...
(Source: MEDC - Michigan Economic Development Corporation) Lansing, Mich.- Detroit's East Side will soon be home to a new community garden and farmer's market with the help of a crowdfunding campaign,...
View ArticleOctober in the garden
What a hard summer it has been for our gardens! Extreme and protracted heat, unusual humidity, the odd and patchy thunderstorms are not what we expect, nor what the garden expects. Hopefully, the...
View ArticleThe City of Saint John partners with Scotts Canada and Anglophone School...
(Source: City of Saint John) Thanks to the vision of City staff, a generous grant from ScottsMiracle-Gro, and the dedicated efforts of Communities in Bloom and Anglophone School District - South,...
View ArticleECC celebrates second Summer Harvest at Canalside-set Learning Garden (ECC -...
(Source: ECC - Erie Community College) BUFFALO-Last summer, faculty inside Erie Community College's Culinary Arts Department were able to incorporate farm-to-table teaching into their program's...
View Article8/24/2015 Health Education Council awards $12,500 grants to support community...
(Source: Placer County, CA) August 24, 2015 In collaboration with Placer County Health and Human Services, the Health Education Council (HEC) Executive Director Debra Oto-Kent announced today that...
View ArticleGovernor Quinn Announces Investment in East St. Louis Community Garden...
(Source: The Office of the Governor of the State of Illinois) EAST ST. LOUIS - Governor Pat Quinn today announced an investment of $150,000 in the F.R.E.S.H. Community Teaching Garden for the...
View ArticleVCU celebrates Earth Day with open house at Monroe Park Campus Learning...
(Source: Virginia Commonwealth University) Friday, April 15, 2016 The new Monroe Park Campus Learning Garden at Virginia Commonwealth University will host an open house ahead of Earth Day. The open...
View ArticleOlive Garden Teams up with Feeding America® to Feed Families in Need...
ORLANDO, Fla., March 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Olive Garden is strengthening its commitment to helping families in need by partnering with Feeding America, the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief...
View ArticleSyracuse church harvests farms' leftover crops to feed the hungry
BALDWINSVILLE, N.Y. -- There's a biblical passage that preaches the importance of a farmer sharing his excess. "Do not reap the very edges of your field," it reads. "Leave them for the poor and for the...
View ArticleChow Line: Working in garden yields multiple benefits (OSU Extension - Ross...
(Source: OSU Extension - Ross County) This year, I greatly enlarged my vegetable garden. I enjoy it, but it's a lot more work than I realized. People tell me that gardening provides a lot of health...
View ArticleThe Best Chile Gardening Guides and Resources for Your Home Garden
The fresher the chili the better tasting your food will be. So why not grow your very own chilies? Wouldn't it be wonderful to just walk out to your garden or balcony and pick a fiery fruit right off...
View ArticleBenefits of DIY gardening in Denver
Some Denver residents hire out their garden work. While this may seem like a time saving proposition, it's also a costly one. Saving money isn't the only benefit to doing your own gardening and...
View ArticleA place to plant and grow: the LUISS Community Garden (Libera Università...
(Source: Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli) All LUISS students are welcome to participate in activities organized in the community garden on the Viale...
View ArticleSummer gifts from the garden
Summer is a busy season for gardeners. Gardens are thriving. Summer birthdays are coming up as quickly as the garden vegetables. Time is not something gardeners have a lot of. Gifts from the garden...
View ArticleThis vegetable garden feeds those in need twice
Ray Peterson has a small vegetable garden behind his Carol Stream home. Behind his church - Our Savior Lutheran Church, 1244 W. Army Trail, Carol Stream - he has a 5,000 square foot vegetable garden....
View ArticleCommunal Thanksgiving meal at community garden
FL_Sarasota - SARASOTA — There was a moment Thursday — after she finally got a chance to sit still and eat — when Barbara Powell took her Thanksgiving dinner party in. Her longtime gardening buddy,...
View ArticleCrowdfunding campaign launched for the ‘Well House Garden and Murals’ Project...
(Source: MEDC - Michigan Economic Development Corporation) Lansing, Mich.- A Grand Rapids-area nonprofit that provides affordable housing for people experiencing homelessness will receive garden...
View ArticlePrepare to reap the good seeds you have sown
Today’s bible study is Galatians 6:9-10: Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially...
View ArticleCharity begins in the home garden: how to share your harvest
Gardening can be especially rewarding when some of the harvest is given to charity. Contributing just-picked fruits and vegetables not only alleviates hunger but helps develop healthier eating habits....
View ArticleSimple steps for preparing, caring for and harvesting a vegetable garden...
(Source: UCCE Central Sierra) The Good Life Garden an edible garden at the at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science includes vegetables, herbs and flowers. Photo credit: Claire Napawan...
View ArticleFood banks welcome gardeners’ surplus produce
The hot weather is ripening local gardens; soon it’ll be time to figure out what to do with all those extra zucchini. And tomatoes. And potatoes. For the past three years, many gardeners have turned to...
View ArticlePumpkin facts, gardening class and Ohio Design Centre event: Home and Garden...
Miller Orchards is stocked with pumpkins and apples in Brownhelm Township this fall. (Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealer) PUMPKIN FACTS: From the corner supermarket to neighborhood porches, pumpkins are...
View ArticleNeed some healthy meal ideas from the garden? You’re good to GROW! (NYRP -...
(Source: NYRP - New York Restoration Project) Posted by Leah Silver As summer comes to a close, gardens are yielding a bounty-and five New York Restoration Project community gardens near and dear to...
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