Evansville urban gardens feed needs of community
They may look like muddy plots now, but in the coming months vacant lots and empty fields around Evansville will bloom and overflow with fresh produce. Several neighborhoods and communities this year...
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 ArticleTURN YOUR GARDEN INTO A FOOD SOURCE
For Jennifer and Robert Bonakdar, farm-to-table dining is so last year. Four years ago, the couple hired Ari Tenenbaum, president and co-founder of Revolution Landscape, to create an edible,...
View ArticleCultivate your garden knowledge at Harvest Day in Fair Oaks
Harvest Day started simple. Volunteer master gardeners got together to share their home-grown bounty and talk crops. They went over what worked (and didn't) at their community garden and started...
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 ArticleGardening Grows as Millennials Dig In: #1 Hobby in America Gets Boost from...
(Source: Lowe's Companies Inc) Lowe's offers expert interviews in-studio or at your local Lowe's store MOORESVILLE, N.C., April 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - Gardening is growing as the #1 hobby in America,...
View ArticleSchool gardens plants seeds for healthy eating
Red and yellow tulips are blooming at Winchester Public School in downtown Toronto, but that's not all that is growing there. Students are planting radishes, spinach, parsley, carrots and mouse melons,...
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,...
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