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The Thrill of Gardening
The experience of growing one's first garden is a thrill one will never forget.
Fight for the Right to Grow Food: Orlando Man Cited for Illegal Gardening [Updated]
Jason Helvingston of Orlando, Fla., fights for his right to grow food in his front yard garden after the City of Orlando cited him for illegal gardening, pitting food self-sufficiency against city ordinance.
7 Benefits of Growing a Victory Garden
From the more practical, money-saving side of things, to controlling your own destiny, the benefits of a victory garden are many.
Sow for Victory: Bringing Back the Victory Garden
Meredith Skyer outlines the history of victory gardens in the United States and why this nation, facing a food crisis, should start to sow for victory once again.
Doing a Little Something for Ourselves
We learned a long time ago that we couldn't attract an audience for our magazines unless we gave our readers tools they could use to improve the world personally. A backyard organic garden is the perfect symbol of positive vision and commitment.
Learning How to Garden at the FAIR
Our MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR last weekend was full of great presentations about all facets sustainable living, including on learning how to garden.
Heirloom Tomatoes and National Seed-Swap Day: Attend a Local Event or Host Your Own!
We're getting revved up for winter seed swaps, and planning our tomato plantings to account for all the great tasting events next summer and fall. Find out how to find your own local events, or host your own!
Celebrate the Harvest with Cake
Get creative in the kitchen by baking with your harvest. These sweet recipes will change the way you think about baking with fruits and vegetables.
Beginning the Fall Harvest
While summer's still lingering, tasks of fall have begun.
The Resurgence of School Gardens
School gardens play a vital role in our nations educational systems. Though the concept dates back to the 1800s, their role has gained popularity in the last 20 years, and for good reasons.
Chives, Mint and a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Chives and mint come to a duel for territory in the herb garden, while the spring sap-sucker marks time.
Sustainable Food Lessons From Kenya
In Kenya, even for middle class families, much of what ends up on the dinner table is grown or raised at home. With food prices rising, more and more Americans are looking towards ways of growing some of what ends up on their table at home. Both in terms of personal health, and the environment, this is a very good trend—it's a food source as local as you can get.
Community Gardens in Victoria, British Columbia
When traveling, consider checking out the community gardens in the area. You can meet local people who are passionate about gardening and learn about the climate and crops that may be different than yours.
A Greenhouse: Part Two
The greenhouse takes shape with the help of family.
Make Gardening Easier: Build Permanent Beds and Paths
MOTHER EARTH NEWS Associate Editor Shelley Stonebrook offers tips for building permanent garden beds and paths. Shelley presented her workshop "10 Great Ways to Make Gardening Easier" at the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR in Puyallup, Wash.
Broad Section of America Attends the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR
I noticed, as I walked the FAIR yesterday, a broad section of America.
Illegal Front Yard Vegetable Gardens: Des Moines Considers Home Garden Ban
Des Moines, Iowa, gardeners may soon find themselves in hot water with their City. A local resident recently took front yard veggie growers to task for what the resident feels to be unsightly lawn growth. Beets and berries, it seems, do not have the same aesthetic appeal as a green, freshly-mowed front lawn.
A Worldwide Noah's Ark for Endangered Plants
Tom Newmark won't rest until he's helped establish 10,000 seed sanctuaries--living gardens devoted to propagating and nurturing endangered plants--across the world. He came a step closer this week with the establishment of a sanctuary in India.
Sunny Days Ahead for the Sunset Hill School Garden
Volunteers work to start the Sunset Hill Elementary School Garden in Lawrence, Kan.
Plant a Medicinal Garden, Part 1: Immune-Boosting Herbs
Learn growing methods, health benefits and preparations for echinacea, elecampane, sweet Annie, spilanthes and astragalus.
Planning Yard Projects for Next Year? Begin With a YardMap
The YardMap Network is a citizen science project designed to cultivate a richer understanding of bird habitat, for both people concerned with their local environments and professional scientists. The program is housed at the Lab of Ornithology, in Ithaca, New York. We collect data by asking individuals across the country to draw maps of their backyards, parks, farms, favorite birding locations, schools, and gardens.
New Year's Resolution: Eat More (Homegrown) Vegetables
Make your New Year's Resolution to be healthier fun and family-oriented: Plant a vegetable garden, eat more vegetables and make 2011 The Year of the Vegetable.
Where Have All the Gardens Gone?
Is having too many gardens a detriment to selling a suburban home?
A Creative and Resourceful Grandmother During the Industrial Revolution
A transplanted Choctaw and Southerner, a grandmother shows her strength and creativity during the Industrial Revolution and shows how one can face and adapt to life's challenges.
Gift Ideas for Gardeners
A short list of gift ideas for gardeners.
The Post-Frost Garden
The first killing frosts of the season change the garden-scape.
Flowers - Food for the Soul
This garden is practically maintenance free as it produces some of the most beautiful and most beloved flowers. After you have tried it, you will wonder, why didn't I start growing hardy annuals sooner? Don't miss the opportunity to garden in the forgotten seasons.
Self-Directed Gardening Education
Winter is the best time to step back from your garden and learn something new. Do some research, participate in learning programs, and work on your garden notebook. When the opportunity arises next year, visit the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR.
Harlem Community Garden Update: Building Garden Beds
The community garden in East Harlem, Chenchita's Garden, is beginning to take shape.
Help Build a Community Garden in Harlem
You can help support a community garden in New York City's East Harlem neighborhood.
Food Gardening Guide App: Updated and Expanded!
This free app puts the growing info you need right at your fingertips: cultivation guides for each major crop, plus how-to for invaluable gardening skills.
From Gardener to Farmdener
I'd like to introduce the words farmden and farmdener into the English language. I wonder if there are any other farmdeners out there. And just what is a farmden? It's more than a garden, less than a farm. That's my definition, but it also could be described as a site with more plants and/or land than one person can care for sanely. A gardener and garden gone wild, out of control.
Flatulence to Fuel in Brooklyn
A new wastewater treatment plant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, will use methane gas to produce energy.
American Airlines Scores High On Newsweek's Green Rankings List
American Airlines is the greenest U.S. airline for the third consecutive year in Newsweek's Green Rankings List, an annual environmental ranking of the country's 500 largest publicly traded companies.
Electric Trucks Change the Way Chicago Collects Trash
Chicago has decided to convert its entire garbage truck fleet to electric trucks from Motiv Power Systems, making it the first city in the U.S. to have a zero-emission fleet.
Living HOMEGROWN: Am I Doing This Right?
I am the Flock-Tender here on HOMEGROWN.org. I am keeping a chronicle of my experiences learning, living, and growing a homegrown lifestyle fresh out of college. Am I doing this life right?
Easy Newspaper Pots
One of the easiest ways to make your own newspaper pots.
Continuing Fight for the Right to Grow Food: Orlando's War on Gardens
In a war on gardens, the City of Orlando has taken issue with the rows of beans, greens, and other vegetables occupying Jason and Jennifer Helvenston's front yard garden. The Helvenstons respond to the City's request they remove their "illegal" garden.
Urban Agriculture and Garden Training
Amid mounting concerns over food security and sustainable food systems, the rise of urban gardens and agriculture has been on the rise. Due to a paralleled increase in the numbers of people interested in learning how to garden, programs in urban agriculture at colleges as well as nonprofit urban garden training programs have sprouted up across the country.
The Future of Urban Gardening
Learn about the advantages of urban farming from those who are leading the way. The benefits include improved food production, increased revenue sources and reduced energy use.
Five Tips on Gardening With a Living Safety Net
Tired of pests? Here are five tips for knocking 'em back without resorting to pesticides and toxic chemicals.
Planning For Eating
Begin your garden planning with what,and particularly how much, you want to eat. Take a look at what you are eating now and go from there.
An Abundance of Homegrown Garlic
This blog post describes the MOTHER EARTH NEWS staff's afternoon spent harvesting their homegrown garlic.
Introducing the Gardener's Hollow Leg
The perfect partner for pruning, weeding and harvesting.
The New Gardener's Hollow Leg Junior
Smaller version of the original Gardener's Hollow Leg is perfect for picking dinner!
Celebrate National Public Gardens Day with Free Admission at a Garden Near You
Friday, May 10 is National Public Gardens Day. Find out what special events are happening at a garden near you.
Growing Healthy Lunches With School Gardens
Ditch unhealthy school lunches with a fresh lunch idea for kids: school gardens. Beyond putting fresh, healthy food in schools, cafeteria gardens are a great classroom tool and a big step towards more sustainable schools.
Guide to Organic Gardening App
No matter your level of gardening expertise, our Guide to Organic Gardening app has the advice and how-to you need to dig in and grow a bountiful organic food garden. With articles on composting, beneficial insects, weed control and more, you'll have a wealth of organic gardening know-how at your fingertips after you download this app onto your Apple or Android smartphone or tablet.
Goats: Just Kidding! Part 4
The babies have arrived, now is the time to take care of all of the other parts of caring for the newborns!
Goats: New Kids, Finally!
The kids have finally arrived, and we have plenty of photos of them!
Learn to Create Your Own Heirloom Kitchen Garden
Learn to create your own heirloom kitchen garden at this 3-course series in Pennsylvania.
Cleaning with Essential Oils
Discover some of the properties of essential oils, along with some tips for cleaning with them.
The Lazy Urban Gardener's Safety Net
So, what do you do if you neglected to start your veggies way back in January or February? You had good intentions but there always seemed to be something that stole your attention. Now it's the planting season and you have nothing to plant...
My First Time: A Garden Connection With My Grandpa
My first blog for MOTHER EARTH NEWS takes me back to a time when I didn't know I had a love of gardening. One of my first gardening experiences came during an unlikely encounter with my curmudgeon grandfather.
Is It Safe to Plant a Garden in Galvanized Stock Tanks?
A reader wonders whether it is safe to use a galvanized stock tank as a garden planter.
Weed & Water Wednesday: 10 Green Gifts for Gardeners — All Under $50
Check out this roundup of 10 favorite sustainable gifts for the gardeners on your list — all under $50!
A Bygone Era - The Newspaper Boy
I learned life lessons early in life as a newspaper delivery boy. Valuable lessons that carried on though life.
Questions! Questions!
Your local county extension office can answer questions on gardening, livestock, poultry, crops, garden pests and more.
Sharing the Love With Community Gardening
Want to find a new garden plot for next year? Look into community gardens in your area, or start your own!
Joel Salatin Inspires at Heritage Harvest Fest
Monticello's Heritage Harvest Festival inspired us to keep at those challenges that frustrate us on the farm.
Transformation Tuesday: An Abandoned Detroit Lot Becomes a Thriving Community Garden
The Spirit of Hope garden in Detriot offers a safe, nurtuting place for plants and children to grow.
On Super Bowl Sunday, Say No to Junk Food
Kitchen Gardeners International's 20ate campaign urges Americans to say no to junk food.
New Garden Seeder Improves Planting Experience
The innovative garden seeder from Simple Seeder increases speed and ease of planting.
What Did You Do With Your Garden Over the Winter?
Readers share tips and tricks for taking care of winter garden beds.
The Nature of Garden Giving
Can't have a garden of your own, but you want to garden? Urban Garden Share allows you to do exactly that!
A Better Garden Next Year
A good watering system will save you time and money in your garden.
Goats: Just Kidding! Part 5
After the kidding is over, we take good care of our girls! And, the babies need to be bottle fed, so here are the instructions on how we feed our kids.
The Fabulous Food Garden Contest
Your attractive food garden could win you $500 and a chance to be featured in MOTHER EARTH NEWS.
US Households Grow Home Food Gardens
A recent poll asked you what percentage of people living in the U.S. you would guess grow food gardens. Most respondents underestimated the actual numbers of households with home gardens, a growing trend.
Food Is Free Project
The Food Is Free Project has become a food revolution in Austin, Texas
The Power of Gardening: Start Your Subversive Plot Today
Roger Doiron, a MOTHER EARTH NEWS contributor and the found of Kitchen Gardeners International, recently spoke at a TEDx conference about the power of gardening.
Ladies in Red Shiny Armour
Who needs a TV drama, when, out the back door, we have our own alfresco drama, complete with territory battles, births, deaths, alien invasions, mystery, beauty and fornication, unfolding daily before our very eyes if we care to look.
Seed Catalogs: Waiting for Winter to End
Sorting through seed catalogs is one of the most entertaining tasks we have here at MOTHER EARTH NEWS. These garden seed catalogs come in handy when searching for just the right variety of heirloom veggies to grow, and they're fun to look at too!
Make Your Own Biodegradable Seed-Starting Pots
Using newspaper, learn how to craft easy, biodegradable pots to start seeds.
DIY Electric Car attracts Media Attention
Building my own electric car seems to have caught the attention of the Media. As though getting on the front page of the County paper for a speeding ticket in my electric car wasn't notorious enough, now I'm getting calls from big-shot reporters!
Editor's Choice: 5 Great Green Gardens
In Arizona, an intrepid desert gardener harvests rainwater to grow his own food. A Missouri garden writer feeds his soil to feed himself. In Texas, a garden wall encourages community. These are a few of my favorite gardens.
Study Says Acupuncture Provides True Pain Relief
A New York Times article reports a recent, rigorous study confirming that acupuncture can ease chronic pain, including that from migraines and arthritis.
A Weekend at the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR: A Snapshot Tour
Take a visual tour of the events at the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Fair in Puyallup, Washington.
10 Tips for a Tiny Balcony
Think your balcony's too tiny to provide food and fun? Check out Apartment Therapy's great tips for making the most of your outdoor space.
Garlic Time!
A brief thesis on the finer properties of garlic and planting instructions.
Preparing Soil in Our Community Garden
Garden like the Native Americans by digging up 18-inch-diameter hills on four foot centers. Get your crops started, then worry about working the areas in between the hills.
A Home in the City, a Homestead for Life
Julie Lavigne relates her grandparent's home in the city, a modern homestead for their time, and proves you can live a self-sufficient lifestyle in an urban setting.
Earth Gauge Tip of the Week — Celebrate National Wildflower Week!
Tips on how to celebrate National Wildflower Week, May 6-13!
Urban Gardens: Green Lifestyle and Design Blog Receives Awards, Launches New Ventures
The success of Urban Gardens is a story about an expansion of one's reach outside of one given discipline.
Earth Gauge Tip of the Week — Bio-What?
Explanation of what bioretention systems are and how they are used to reduce and filter storm water runoff.
Earth Gauge Tip of the Week: Pumpkin Harvest
Facts on the links between weather and pumpkins and what you can do with leftover pumpkins.
Permaculture the Old-Fashioned Way
Permaculture has become the new buzzword in certain circles. What is it? Do we need it?
Planning Is an Important Key for Your Gardening Success
Are you planning to put in an orchard next spring, or re-design your landscape with more edible plants?
A Cutting-Edge Rain Garden in Kansas City
Kansas City's 18Broadway project is a superb example of how to capture and store rainwater to grow food in the heart of downtown.
Toward the Future
Where are we headed, vis a vis our food systems? Can we as individuals make a difference in our food? Yes!
Wabi-Sabi Wednesday: 7 Wabi Gardens
In a wabi-sabi garden, plants are chosen because they belong in that garden and in that climate, and they're allowed to strut their stuff if they're considerate of the plants around them. Both plants and guests are encouraged to meander and explore.
Legal Front Yard Gardens Go Beyond Containers
St. Paul, Minnesota, not only allows front yard gardens and promotes growing vegetables in containers, but encourages residents to beautify the boulevard with plants, including edibles.
Space-Saving Gardening: How to Grow More Food (Video)
Learn how to grow more food in your organic vegetable garden without enlarging your garden space by using the space-saving gardening techniques outlined in this short video.
Best Sun Protection for Sun Loving Gardeners
Dog days of summer? Yes, but there is still a lot of the grwoing season left. Protect yourself from the late summer sun with these tried 'n true items ... tested by a gardener who knows more than she'd like to about skin cancer.
Bring Garden Planning Into Your Garden With Gardening App
Try using the Grow Planner app to streamline your garden planning and your garden work.
Using Leaves in the Garden
Using leaves in the garden will boost the soil's organic matter.
Garden Fresh for the Holidays – Southern Style
The vegetables and herbs that are still available in our Southeast garden make for delicious, festive and surprisingly varied holiday fare.
With a Packet In My Pocket
To ensure we have a full productive garden, each spring I start a habit of carrying a packet of seeds in my pocket every time I head to the garden!
When Is the Best Time to Dig Up New Garden Beds for Next Year?
Digging up places for new garden beds can take a long time. The sooner you start, the better!
Easiest Vegetables to Grow
Ready to start your first garden? To guarantee success with your first garden, stick with Barbara Pleasant's list of easy to grow vegetables. She has advice on when and what to plant for the first time gardener. Good luck on your first garden!
Find Your Average Last Frost Date
Knowing your average last frost date is key to getting your garden off to a good start.
Keeping Moles and Birds Away From Your Produce
Use old CDs and soda cans to keep pests out of your garden.
Thinking About Starting a Garden? Jump Right In!
Catch the gardening bug, and start to grow your own food! Once you start, you'll love it. Here are some basic pieces of advice for the budding gardener.
CobraHead Tools — Enabling Older Gardeners
A problem for older gardeners is finding tools that make gardening easier as getting up and down becomes harder.
World's Best Gardening Clogs
Try BOGS gardening clogs, a super-comfortable pair of gardening shoes that will stand up to tough wear.
What Gardening Book Would You Recommend for Beginners?
Gardeners suggest gardening books for beginners.
Succession Planting
Keep your garden full all season by planting the next crop as soon as the previous crop is harvested. Tips for deciding what to plant next.
Seeds: How Many Do You Need?
Know how many seeds you need for your area considering germination rate and extras.
Late October, and the Garden Is Still Going Strong
The Ogden Community Garden winds down, and one gardener marvels at the late October harvest, and on how much the garden has meant to everyone who has helped tend it.
Weed-Free, Self-Fertilizing, Till-Free Garden Beds
Want a worry-free, weed-free, organic-matter-rich vegetable garden bed? It is doable and fall is the best time to put it in action!
Gardening on a Budget: Seven Tips for Success
Don't let the cost of gardening keep you out of the dirt this year. Cheap gardening can be fun and easy. With these tips for gardening on a budget, you'll save on seeds, make your own fertilizer and impress your friends with your gardening know how.
Gardening in Winter: Everything You Need to Know About Indoor Agriculture
It's absolutely possible to be gardening in winter. You simply need to understand what to plant, when to plant it and how to maintain the best possible growing conditions in your home for indoor agriculture.
Throw a Greener New Year's Eve Party
Happy New Year! This year I'm happily going to my friends' house to ring it in. If you're hosting the New Year's Eve party, start the new year out right by keeping it green.
Ten Food Resolutions for 2014 (No Dieting Involved)
Haven't made any New Year's resolutions yet? No worries. HOMEGROWN.org has you covered with 10 ways to change the world in 2014, starting in your own backyard.
A New England Homestead
Growing up on a New England homestead, a woman imparts heartfelt lessons about making do with what you have and cherishing those memories.
New Ford Hybrid Impresses Visitors at the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR
Ford delivered more than 900 test-drives of its 2013 electric and hybrid vehicles to visitors at the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR in Seven Springs, Pa.
Nordic Naturals Introduces Vitamin D3 Gummies
Nordic Naturals introduces Vitamin D3 Gummies, the delicious, chewable, wild berry gummy that provides 1,000 I.U. of vitamin D in each serving and is sourced from cholecalciferol, the natural form of vitamin D preferred for optimal absorption. The pectin-based product is gelatin free and does not contain artificial coloring, flavoring, or preservatives.
Putting the Community in a Community Garden
Describes the process of forming a community garden from the physical and energetic standpoints. The power of teamwork, the joy of accomplishment and the building of a feeling of group unity are described.
Five Tips for Getting Started With the Vegetable Garden Planner
Contributing Editor Barbara Pleasant provides tips to help users get the most out of the new MOTHER EARTH NEWS Vegetable Garden Planner. This interactive software will help you plan your best garden ever!
Ways to Support the Local Foods Movement
A list of ways we could each show support or teach our friends and family to support the Local Foods Movement
Urban Oases
My mission was to find like minded 'earth nurturers' in a neighborhood where there seems to be a dearth of us! What I found was humility and kindred spirits, and the makings of a great dinner party!
Plants Change Wasteland to Wonderland
The healing power of plants can remediate years of soil and water pollution, and create unexpected islands of beauty.
Earth Gauge Tip of the Week: Earth Science Week
Tips on how to control soil erosion and help protect one of Earth's most important natural resources.
Earth Gauge Tip of the Week: Be Penny-Wise and Water Smart
Tips on how to conserve water in the fall with weather-based irrigation controllers.
Tough Times? Grow Your Own Food!
As more Americans tighten their belts to save a penny or two, many are finding they can save money by growing food-producing gardens.
Green Victory! An Organic Food Garden at the White House
The Obamas plant an organic vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House.
Sign Up for MOTHER's Garden Surveys
If you're a veteran gardener, please consider signing up to take out online gardening surveys. The surveys allow us to write articles based on the collective experience of hundreds of gardeners and report the results back to you by region. Sign up here.
The Urban Food Forest: A Groundbreaking Trend in Urban Agriculture
Urban food forests and public gardens provide communities with an edible landscape for everyone to share. These public fruit forests are the new trend in urban agriculture and play an important role as sustainable local food systems in their communities.
Do Not Overlook Nuts
My nutty endeavors have reaped nutty - and delicious and healthful - rewards.
In the Beeyard: Final Winter Preparations
Jennifer Ford of Bees of the Woods Apiary explains how they prepare their beehives to survive the long cold winter in upstate New York.
Why Having Pets Makes Us More Human
Through all of the tears and the heartbreak, I have found that having a pet makes us more human. Please why everyone should have at least one best friend that is furry.
Start Planning Now for Bees in the Spring!
Becoming a beekeeper takes a lot of planning and preparation. Jennifer Ford of Bees of the Woods Apiary will explain some steps you can take now to start getting ready to keep bees in the spring.
Protecting Beehives from Late Winter Starvation
Jennifer Ford of Bees of the Woods Apiary will discuss some techniques for helping beehives survive through the end of winter.
Honeybee Swarms
Jennifer Ford of Bees of the Woods Apiary will discuss honeybee swarms, and how to try to prevent your bees from swarming.
New Holland Launches the T4 Series Tractors, a New Generation of Utility Tractors
New Holland has introduced its next generation of hardworking utility tractors, the T4 Series. This tailored offering produces between 84 to 106 horsepower thanks to powerful 4-cylinder engines with Common Rail technology and a Cooled Exhaust Gas Recirculation system to meet Tier 4A compliance.
Grasshopper Introduces Improved PowerVac Vacuum Collector
The Grasshopper company has introduced the new Model 8HT PowerVac vacuum collector.
A Girl Out of Water - A Tale of Moving to a Farm
Humorous real-life stories of moving and adjusting to farm life.
Building a new Energy Efficient House
Building a new house with SIPS
Mamma Chia Introduces Chia Squeeze
Mama Chia organic chia seeds are infused with delicious fruits and vegetables to create a convenient, fun and tasty snack for active souls of all ages.
YANMAR America Supports Pennsylvania MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR as Title Sponsor
Yanmar is a proud supporter and Title Sponsor of this year's MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR.
Always Have a Backup Plan
The journey to a self-sufficient life is a bumpy ride. Having a backup plan — or two — can make all the difference in your progress.
Know When to Plant Each Crop in Your Exact ZIP Code
Use our popular When to Plant app to know when to plant each crop in your area.
Planting a Fall Garden the Easy Way
Our Vegetable Garden Planner assists you in planting your fall garden by giving you planting dates specific to your location, projected harvest dates and more.
Great News for Southern Gardeners: Organic Tomato Transplants for Fall
To better accommodate the planting schedule of gardeners in the southern United States, California's Natural Gardening Company will make a dozen varieties of tomato transplants available by mid-August.
Have You Used Painted Pebbles to Keep Birds Away From Your Fruit?
Painted rocks or pebbles can potentially deter birds from pecking at ripening fruit. Tell us how this technique has worked for your, plus check out other readers' tips and responses.
Disease Prevention for Tomatoes
Tips for keeping your tomato plants healthy.
CobraHead Announces New Website
The new website offers the home gardener an expanded product selection of useful garden products.
Seven Garden Activities to Help Kiss Winter Goodbye
So, you can't wait for the weather to warm up enough to get out and plant a few seeds in the ground? Well here is a list of gardening ideas and activities to keep you occupied and happy right up until the day that spring arrives!
Potatoes And Voles
Strategies for controlling voles in the potatoes in your garden.
Starting Seeds For Spring
By starting seeds indoors, you get a jump start on spring garden planting.
Time to Plant Garlic (With Growing Tips)
Fall is the time to plant garlic. The cloves send down roots during the winter, popping their green heads out in early spring.
Great Ways to Increase Your Harvest
The actual footprint of a garden is only one of many factors for how much food that can be produced there. With succession planting, good soil and some planning the same garden area can produce substantially more food.
Eco-Friendly Gardening Tips for Any Season
This blog post explores eco-friendly gardening tips to refreshing your garden tools, furniture, accessories and outbuildings without the need to buy mass-manufactured goods or use harmful chemical treatments.
October Garden Planner for Growing Cool-Season Crops
Though summer vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, basil and cucumbers grow at a reduced pace in the fall, cool season crops like lettuce, carrots, radishes, peas, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower are coming into maturity throughout October and into November.
First Time Gardener in the Office Garden
Summer intern Megan describes her first time gardening at MOTHER EARTH NEWS, planting cucumbers for the first time and watering the office garden.
Find the Best Seeds and Tools for Your Garden
We have developed two customized search engines that make it easier to locate companies that offer specific varieties of seeds and plants, as well as organic garden products and tools.
September Garden Planner
End of summer is a great time to tidy garden beds and harvest herbs. Now is the time to plant your fall, winter and overwintering transplants.
Worm's Way Launches New Website
The set launch of Worm's Way Group's new website promises improved usability, more speed and exclusive web-based promotions.
The Aquaponics Source Announces Publication of "Aquaponics Gardening"
"Aquaponics Gardening: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together" offers advice and insight into the world of sustainable gardening
Home Garden Laws: Weeding in the Nude and Other No-Nos
Home gardeners and urban farmers can come up against garden laws and regulations that can limit the size, style and components of their garden.
EVENT ALERT: Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello
Attend the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello to learn more about heirloom gardening.
Next Generation Gardeners
Involving children in planning a garden and growing vegetables can lead to healthier adults and a healthier planet.
Two Low-cost, Supereasy Ways to Protect Your Fall Crops
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Concerns About Using Recycled Tire Planters
In the long term, using recycled tire planters or rubber mulch in your garden can cause problems. Here's why.
May Garden Planner
May is a busy time in the garden for planting. Frost-free weather is the time to get summer veggies in their pots or garden spot.
Winners of the Fabulous Food Garden Contest
Winners of the Fabulous Food Garden Contest have been chosen. See who the lucky prize recipients are!
Keeping Garden Records
Put together a notebook with your complete garden plan. Here's some tips to get you started.
Meatless Monday Recipe: A Veggie Version of a New Year's Classic
Try a vegetarian version of traditional Hoppin John for good luck this New Year's day.
Bickering in the Flock (Children and Chickens)
What to do when the hot, humid days of summer create constant bickering in your children and in the flock.
A Few Big Rocks
We quarry a granite rock to create a front stoop.
Honey Harvest - Part One
One of the most fun parts of beekeeping is harvesting honey. Here we will look at the first part of the honey harvest, removing the honey supers from the hives, and how to store them safely.
Homesteading 101: Getting Started
As a beginner homesteader, designer Larissa Reznek has learned some hard lessons fast. Here are the top three pieces of guidance she wishes she had before she started out.
A Compost Happening
I feed and water my compost "pets," and they do the same for my plants.
Full Circle: a WWOOFer's Perspective
A WWOOFer (Worldwide Opportunity on Organic Farms reflects on her second visit to an organic herb farm, where she learned more about plant harvesting, medicine making and natural building
Save Your Seeds
Want to grow and save your own vegetable seeds? Meet Fruition Seeds. They produce regionally-adapted, organically-grown seeds. And they can show you how to do it too.
Honey Harvest, Part Two - Extracting Liquid Gold
Jennifer Ford shows how she extracts and bottles her "liquid gold" honey at Bees of the Woods Apiary.
Recipe Box: Wild Blackberry Scones
These sweet, wholesome scones come together in a flash and make use of August's abundance of wild blackberries.
Communicating With Hand-Written Letters
Communicating via letters mirrors the pace of a handmade life.
Nature's Restorative Power
Getting back to nature reminds us of what we are fighting so hard to protect.
New Belgium Brewing and Patagonia Create Organic Lager
Special Lager Beer Crafted by New Belgium Brewing Celebrates Patagonia's 40 Years in Business.
You Can't Take the Flock Out of the Chick
Even when the chicks have left the nest, they never really leave.
Sealing The Cracks
Tightening up our log cabin with a mortar mix.
Searching For Words
Working in the potato bed produces the next blog article.
Surgery for Back Pain: Try To Be Green About It
We all suffer from some sort of pain. The real green living question is how to deal with that pain.
Early Autumn in the Beeyard – Preparing for Winter!
Although winter may seem a long way off, starting to prepare your beehives for winter now will pay off later. Jennifer Ford of Bees of the Woods Apiary will describe what they do to get their beehives ready for winter.
Having Guests Visit Your Beeyard
Having guests visit your beeyard takes a lot of planning and preparation. Jennifer Ford of Bees of the Woods Apiary shares her experience having visitors in the beeyard, along with some tricks and tips to make the visit go more smoothly for everyone.
Foraging Chickens for Free
How to identify and cook with chicken of the woods mushroom, one of the most delicious and easy to identify wild edible mushrooms.
Inspired by Homemade Bread
Jonathan Sadowski shares what motivates him to be a bread baker. He then provides a preview of what to expect from his future posts.
Persimmons Are an Easy and Tasty Fruit
With no care on my part, persimmons bear in abundance while mocking my empty efforts with my apple trees.
The Switch: Trading Out Our Woodstoves
As winter approaches, we switch out our wood cookstove for the winter woodstove
Dark Evenings: Light Without Electricity
The benefits of limited lighting and no electricity.
'Earthen Floors' by Sukita Reay Crimmel and James Thomson
"Earthen Floors" by Sukita Reay Crimmel and James Thomson provides essential information for creating beautiful floors using natural techniques.
A College Degree No Longer a Guarantee
We are currently facing a job crisis. Most jobs available today require specific skills and not college diplomas. Congress recently passed the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act which should help train workers but fails to take note of the booming green job market.
'Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good' by Heather Menzies
Heather Menzies studies her family's commoning roots in the Scottish Highlands in "Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good."
Dealing With Winter Honeybee Withdrawal
Jennifer Ford of Bees of the Woods Apiary shares some beekeeping crafts and activities to pass the time until you can get back out in the beeyard this spring.
Appreciating the Tastes of Regional Honey
Jennifer Ford of Bees of the Woods Apiary will discuss how to enjoy a little taste of summer in the middle of winter by developing a new appreciation for honey!
Brussels Sprouts and Lupine Seeds for Mother's Day
Plants abound for Mother's Day, and lupine flowers and spring Brussels sprouts are among the best gifts for mom.
How to Market Farm-Fresh Milk Direct to Consumers
The flavor and shelf life of the milk you sell directly to consumers are directly impacted by how the milk is produced and handled on your farm. Here are my best practices for handling and producing the highest-quality, most delicious milk on the farm.
Sudden Chicken Death: What Are the Causes?
When a chicken dies suddenly for no obvious reason, it's unsettling. But it's not uncommon. Here are some possible causes for that sudden death in your otherwise healthy flock.
River Rages During Spring Melt
As the first of the spring rains arrive, our river begins to flood.
Building a Pig Hut for Dummies
Instructions for a quick, easy and affordable method of building portable shelters for your pastured pigs
Principles of Forage Recovery Chart
A sustainable, profitable grazing system starts with one thing: full pasture recovery. Destroying your land can also start at the same point, if you don't allow enough rest. This chart summarizes the principles of mob grazing for those who don't have the time or desire to read dozens of articles. Hang it up in the barn!
A Moose Visits the Homestead
We have a visit from a moose this spring.
First Beehive Inspection of Spring
Jennifer Ford of Bees of the Woods Apiary will explain how they perform the first beehive inspections of the year. This will be the first step in what will hopefully be a successful year in the beeyard!
Return of the Winter Wren
The unique call of the winter wren arrives at Coosauke to mark the arrival of Spring.
Resolve to Stay Curious and Live Passionately in 2014
In 2014, I resolve to stay curious about the incredible world that we live in and continue to ask plenty of questions each day. I resolve to learn new things and stay informed and aware of global issues.
Whole Wheat, Cornmeal and Flax Seed Artisan Bread Recipe
A few changes in a simple artisan bread recipe improves texture, longevity, and protein content.
Hungarian Mushroom Soup Recipe
Here is a recipe that produces savory soup that warms the soul any time of year.
Simple Harvest Sweet Bread Recipe
This recipe will give you a go-to sweet treat before the fruit in season overruns your kitchen.
Quick and Easy Naan
This recipe will have naan on your table in no time to accompany your Indian dishes, and it will provide a quick and easy snack in a pinch.
Basic Artisan Bread Recipe
This recipe provides delicious bread with minimal time commitment and plenty of room to explore the wonders of homemade bread.
At the Hive Entrance
Did you know that you can learn a lot about the condition of your beehives simply by watching the entrance of the hive? Jennifer Ford of Bees of the Woods Apiary will explain what to look for, and what it might mean. No smoke or hive tool necessary!
New Holland Agriculture Unveils New Tractors, Haytools and More
New Holland Agriculture is unveiling new equipment, and exciting new technology at the 2012 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa.
Finding A Locale For A New Homestead - Being Prepared
As we look into the future we prepare for a flatter terrain for a new homestead.
Girl Out of Water - The Start of It All
A humurous description of the beginning of an adventure in farming.
The Hows and Whys of Producing Comb Honey
Jennifer Ford, of Bees of the Woods Apiary, explains how to produce comb honey, and why it is such a valuable product of the hive.
That's a Lot of Eggs!: Egg Production is Big Business
No wonder hatching chicks and producing eggs is such a big business - take a look at the numbers since 1926.
5 Recipes and 5 Tips for Using a Juicer
Here is a list of recipes for the juicer that are tasty and packed with vitamins and nutrients.
Simple Easy Blueberry Milk
Check out this delicious, refreshing treat that comes in handy when there are too many blueberries to know what to do with.
Urban Roots: Community Gardens Making a New Detroit
The documentary Urban Roots takes a look at how city farming is transforming the city's vacant lots into community gardens, ultimately changing the community as a whole in the process.
Looking Ahead
Using cold frames for fall salad greens can extend your season of fresh eating.
Students Design Sustainable Homes on Reservations
Passive solar design comes to Navajo families, as architecture students build homes on Utah reservations.
Puyallup Fair Highlights: Top tools, tons of talks and a toast to poultry
The 2013 MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR in Puyallup, Wash., last weekend was again a source of great energy and exceptional education, thanks to 15,000 attendees, more than 125 presenters and some 300 sponsors and exhibitors.
Fun at the Fair
It doesn't matter how much you know already, there is always something to learn at the Mother Earth News Fair.
Nordic Naturals Introduces Vitamin C Gummies for Kids and Adults
Tart, tangy and tangerine — Nordic Naturals new vitamin gummies.
KIOTI Tractor Sees Record Growth in 2013
KIOTI tractor company realizes significant growth in North American markets.
Road Trip
The Gourmet Butcher's road trip to the Fair.
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What Do You Think About the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR?
Are you headed to (or just arriving back from) the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR at Seven Springs Resort in Pennsylvania? Share your favorite fair experiences (and photos), and find out how you can keep up with what's going on at this FAIR and future events.
Solar Shuttle at the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR
MOTHER EARTH NEWS Assistant Editor Heidi Hunt chats with Dan Lepinski of MOTHER EARTH NEWS RADIO about converting sunshine into electricity at the 2010 MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR in Seven Springs, Pa.
See y'all in Pennsylvania.
A brief preview of Cole's presentation at the Mother Earth Fair Sept 24/25 at Seven Springs, PA.
16 Tips for Attending a MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR
Thinking of attending a Mother Earth News Fair? Here are some tips to help you make the most of the experience.
The Perks of a MOTHER EARTH NEWS Digital Subscription
Our sleek, easy-to-use digital editions have a number of bonus features, plus reduce paper consumption and the magazine's carbon footprint.
Make Your Garden Work More Efficiently
Keeping your garden tools organized can help you be more efficient in your work in the garden.
Organic Garden Seeds
Organic seeds have benefits for your garden. Learn what our expert recommends and how to find organic seeds to plant.
Should I Build Raised Beds in My New Garden?
Organic gardening expert advises on whether to build raised beds for a new garden.
Vegetable Garden Planner Gift Cards Now Available!
Gift cards to the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Vegetable Garden Planner are now available for just $25.
Do You Recommend Peat Moss to Improve Soil?
Peat moss can help improve soil, but it can be expensive and its production can hurt the environment. Find out whether or not you should use it in your garden.
Michelle Obama Campaigns for Local Food
First Lady Michelle Obama's love for local food has the nation wanting to know more about how to eat in-season. Natural Home editor-in-chief Robyn Griggs Lawrence offers a healthy helping of advice on how to eat local.
MOTHER's Publishing Company Starts Garden on Front Lawn
Learn about how some members of the MOTHER EARTH NEWS team joined with others at their publishing company to start "edible landscaping" gardens on their front lawn.
What Vegetables Would Grow Best in My Area?
A reader from Pacifica, California wants to know what vegetables will grow best when.
Spring Has Sprung and the Ogden Garden is Growing
Thanks to a donation from Mantis, we were able to use our new 2-Cycle Tiller/Cultivator and prep our garden for this year's growing season.
Photo of the Day: Trailer Garden
Photo of the Day blog features a different photo from readers each day. Submit your own photos for a chance to appear on MOTHER's website! What are your favorite facets of simple or down-to-earth living? Share your ideas or show off your land!
MOTHER's Ultimate Garden Giveaway
Enter to to win MOTHER's garden prize package that is valued at $10,000 and includes 13 items that will complete your garden.
Which Is the Best Garden Tractor?
It's time for lawn and garden work. In your opinion, which is the best garden tractor? Which tractor will you be using this year?
Company-Sponsored Organic Vegetable Gardens Promote Healthy Eating
Minneapolis public relations firm Haberman & Associates wants everyone to enjoy a company-sponsored organic vegetable garden like theirs.
Who's Been Nibbling in My Garden?
Identify the animal tracks and footprints of the critters who visit your garden and yard.
How Much Wood Ash Should I Apply To My Garden?
A soil fertility expert shares his advice on using wood ashes as garden fertilizer.
Is Galvanized Wire a Safe Material to Grow Food Plants on?
Find out the risks of growing food plants on galvanized wire, and what precautions you should take when handling galvanized materials.
Garden Planning: It's All About When
Here are some helpful resources to help you determine when to take care of various lawn and garden tasks, such as planting, watering, weeding, fertilizing, mulching and harvesting plants.
Nutsedge: The Edible Garden Foe
Nutsedge is a particularly invasive weed, but it can also be eaten raw, roasted, boiled and candied.
Introducing Permaculture
Maddy Harland introduces the three ethics behind permaculture design and explains why permaculture is more than a gardening technique — it's a practical tool for a better, more creative life!
Back to the future
A little background on how Ric and Vicki moved from Detroit to a Tennessee homestead, and starting to get up to date on what they've done since.
Thanks to All the Volunteers of the 2011 Seven Springs MOTHER EARTH NEWS Fair!
Thanks to all the volunteers of the 2011 MOTHER EARTH NEWS Fair in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania. We couldn't have done it without all your hard work!
Compost: The Other Prize from the Business End of a Chicken
Eggs aren't the only things that come from the business end of a chicken. But with a little time and materials, and even less ingenuity, the rest can set you up with a free and steady supply of valuable organic fertilizer.
Cold Frames, Kim Chee, and Lawns 2 Lettuce 4 Lunch
Progress in the straw bale and wooden cold frames, delicious Kim Chee recipes for winter harvested Chinese cabbage and winter radishes, and an update from the Lawns 2 Lettuce 4 Lunch program in Arlington, VA.
Seed Starting Video and Tips
Have you started your tomatoes and peppers yet? 'Tis the season to start seeding long season crops indoors. If you normally buy organic starts from your local nursery, try your hand at seed starting.
Flowers Add Beauty and Diversity to the Vegetable Garden
There are many logical reasons for adding flowers to your vegetable garden: attracting beneficials, crop diversity, companion-planting, barriers and healthy soil. But perhaps their beauty does not need to be rationalized at all!
Cold Frames, Fresh Greens and Homegrown Roots
Ira takes us on a winter garden tour of the experimental gardens at Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. She describes the various experimental cold frames for winter gardening and winter starts. Includes a winter recipe for Sweet Potato Leek Soup.
Succession Planting: Lettuce, Carrots, and More
Want lettuce and carrots all year round? Ira Wallace tells us her simple simple method for keeping track of succession plantings.
A Hydroponic Gardening Primer
What exactly is hydroponic gardening? Though it may sound complicated, it's really not. The word "hydroponic" comes from the Greek "hydro," meaning water, and "ponic," meaning work. The basic concept is this: growing plants in a nutrient rich water solution rather than in soil.
Small Space Gardening That's Affordable
Regardless of how little space you have, you can grow some of your own food. Space is just an excuse. By building a self-watering container or soda bottle planter you can maximize the space that you have. You don't have to have a huge garden - growi
Fall and Winter Gardening in Pots
Even if you only have garden pots to work with, you can still container garden in fall and winter to grow vegetables.
Late-Summer Gardening
In July and August, it's time to start thinking about planting crops for fall. But how do you get good seed germination when the soil is so hot?
Getting Paid for What I Love to Do
This summer Cam became a market gardener and actually got paid for something he loves to do - grow vegetables!
Survival Gardening in the Deep South
Why "hot and humid" doesn't have to equal "sad and lifeless."
How Has Gardening Brought People Together in Your Life?
One great thing about gardening that goes beyond soil building and crop rotations is its ability to bring people together. As spring is now officially here, it's a great time to revel in all the pleasures the season is sure to bring. Please share your thoughts and stories about how gardening has brought people together in your life.
What Are Your Best Tips for Gardening in the Southwest?
Readers familiar with triple-digit temperatures share their best tips for gardening in the southwest. Get advice about what to plant, when to plant and how to plant if you live in the hottest areas of the country.
Learning How To Grow Tomatoes
Sue Parker shares her grandmother's secrets to a strong tomato crop.
Show Off Your Permanent Garden Beds
Participate in our reader photo contest by showing off pictures of your permanent raised garden beds.
New Features Added to Garden Planning Tools
We have some exciting additions to announce about our award-winning Vegetable Garden Planner program and our new Grow Planner iPad app, including new seed company catalogs, a filter tool, a favorites button and an app update.
Go-To Garden Supplies for the After-Work Rush to the Garden
I keep a kit of handy garden supplies waiting in my car, so I can head straight to the garden and take advantage of as many sunlight hours as possible right after work.
Garden Seed Tips: Organizing Seeds, Understanding Seed Catalogs and More (Video)
Get advice on all things garden seed, from organizing seeds and ordering seeds to understanding seed catalog terms such as open-pollinated and F1 hybrid.
Earn a Trowel for Your Garden Tips!
Send us your garden tips and you could win a free deluxe, ergonomic garden trowel.
DR® Power Equipment Introduces BurnCage Incinerator
New burn barrel alternative provides safer, smarter home and garden burning for homeowners.
Hoss Garden Seeder Perfect for Home Gardens
The Hoss Seeder's unique features include its all-metal frame and ease of attaching to the wheel hoe.
Reconnect With Your Food and Grow Your Own
When you grow your own food, you not take a step towards self-sufficiency. You also make a move towards better health and whole new relationship with your food.
Summer Garden Tips
Tips for keeping your summer garden producing at top output. This is the time of year that warm season crops are at their peak. These 7 tips will give you continued bountiful harvests through the heat.
3 Garden Tool Gift Ideas
Just in time for the holidays, here's a list of recommended garden tools made in the U.S. by family-owned companies.
Growing the Garden Footprint
This year is the first season I had the whole garden dug and ready and boy, it's easy to plant a garden when the garden is already there.
Let's Bring Back Victory Gardens
Bringing back Victory Gardens could help ease hunger and dependence as U.S. social aid programs, such as Food Stamps, are drastically cut.
Favorite and Essential Gardening Tools: Part One
After decades of gardening I've come to rely on a few essential gardening tools.
Using Wood Ash in the Garden
Using wood ash in the garden can be beneficial for raising the soil pH of your garden soil. These tips will help you know when to use wood ash in the garden.
Learn to Grow Food
These resources will help you learn how to grow food and start a garden.
Mediterranean Diet Garden
You can grow your own Mediterranean Diet garden in the Midwest. Even a small garden can provide the staples of a Mediterranean kitchen garden.
Permaculture Garden Observation
Showing where we were before our permaculture garden began.
Permaculture Garden: Will It Work for Us
Do you want a permaculture garden? An ongoing blog about our journey using permaculture design ideas, to develop the organic matter in soil and produce a higher yield.
What Is the Best, Free Mulch for My Gardens for Weed Control?
Here are some good options for free, weed-free mulches.
Homegrown Food without the Work
New businesses are springing up catering to folks who want their food homegrown, but without the mess of tending to the garden themselves.
MOTHER Wins Eddie Awards for Gardening Content and Garden Planning Tool
MOTHER EARTH NEWS wins two exciting accolades at FOLIO's Eddie Awards, one for their article Organic Pest Control: What Works, What Doesn't and one for their Vegetable Garden Planner tool.
Drinking From Garden Hoses
While garden hoses may leach some chemicals into the water flowing through them, there's little reason to think it's a serious health issue.
What's the Best Way to Remove Japanese Beetles?
Japanese beetles feed for six to eight weeks, and in that time, they are able to feed on over 300 plant species. Although collecting beetles may seem like an exhausting every day task, you're plants will appreciate it.
What Are Your Best Tips for Sustainability in the Garden?
Considerations of sustainability factor into countless supplies, tools and methods present in your garden. What do you do in your own garden to be a sustainable gardener?
Help a Small Organic Gardening Company Grow
An interview with the founder of a small organic gardening business that focuses on education and helping gardeners go organic. Learn more about this company and vote for it to win funding from a small business competition.
Growing Sprouts in My Kitchen Garden
Here's a tip on how to grow sprouts in your kitchen garden for fun and nutritious eating.
Time to Plant the Fall Garden
You can be harvesting from your garden all year long, including through the winter months! It's time to plant the fall garden.
A Mama Hen's Worst Fears: Moving Chicks Into the Henhouse
As mama hens, is there ever really a time when we don't worry about our little chicks?
Honeybees and Robbing
Jennifer Ford of Bees of the Woods Apiary explains how to prevent, identify and stop robbing in the beeyard.
Small-Scale Medicinal Herb Farming: A (Very) Personal Journey
From the moment of realization that the world of healing herbs was calling Susanna Raeven, to herfirst herbal class, to running a small-scale herb farm that grows medicinal herbs with organic methods, to creating artisan herbal products, and finally to working with clients to help them find balance in their lives with the generous support of the plant kingdom, the journey has been quite a ride with many joyous moments, but also doubts, insecurities, and cloudy days.
Cleaning, Breathing and Drinking Toxicity
Seth Leitman explains toxicity in our products and how green living is about recovering from these products.
Foraging and Cooking With Wild Sorrel
How to identify, harvest and cook with wood sorrel and sheep sorrel, both common weeds that have the same exquisite lemon flavor as cultivated French sorrel.
Cooking with Roses: How to Use Rose Petals, Leaves and Hips
What to do with the three edible parts of roses, including the hips (fruit) that are in season fall through winter.
Three Ways to Gauge Pastured Livestock Health
Here are three easy observations you can make every day to see how your animals are performing. Use them to constantly adjust your grazing program, instead of "flying blind" until sale day or weighing. They can help you adjust paddock size or give supplemental nutrients.
Foraging in the Cold Months: Chickweed
Chickweed (Stellaria media) is a common garden weed that thrives in the cool temperatures of late fall and early spring. Here's how to identify and use this delicious wild vegetable.
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Andrea Loring is fighting against the tide. Marching toward the cafeteria, she looks in the eyes of every student still lingering in the hallway. "Hugo, you're heading the wrong way," she says to a boy strolling past her. "Eddie, you too," she calls out to a second boy, a sheepish-looking string bean lugging a computer monitor in his arms. "You're going the wrong way." She is smiling. She is enjoying herself. Reaching the cafeteria now with a train of students behind her, she throws her arms around two former pupils, both of whom have dropped by to sample the free soul food that will be offered following today's Black History Month assembly. "Good to see you!" she says to a boy in an orange Fubu baseball jersey. "You're back at Coral Gables, I hear. How's it going?" Loring also reaches out for the boy's friend. "And this one," she adds, beaming with pride, "he's moved on to FIU."
Loring runs the Academy for Community Education (ACE), an alternative high school located in downtown Coral Gables. The school caters to students who have dropped out or who are at risk of dropping out of other public high schools. A self-described "family atmosphere" is fostered at ACE through intensive student counseling, "reverse peer pressure," and a heavy emphasis on academics. "A return to the small-school concept" is the ACE motto, and it's no exaggeration. Only 160 students attend this Miami-Dade County public school, leaving plenty of room to stretch out in the cafeteria as Loring takes the podium.
A sign hovering near her head proclaims "Jaguar Pride." Sports have been an important component at ACE since the school's founding in 1981. The athletics program runs year-round even though the school struggles to field just three sports teams for boys and four for girls. Playing against the tiniest schools in the county (usually small religious academies), ACE owns a decent reputation on the basketball court. In 1995, for instance, the Jaguars boys' team made it to the championship game of the state's Class 1A tournament.
No such luck this year. No chance, even. In the few seasons since ACE's memorable playoff run, the nature of high school basketball in Florida, especially among small schools in Miami-Dade, has changed drastically. Whole teams of talented foreign-exchange students -- several nearly seven feet tall -- have enrolled at five small private schools. All fourteen players on one team hail from outside the United States. Eleven exchange students stock the bench of the defending Class 1A state champions. Prior to the start of this school year, one school recruited and enrolled six players from the Dominican Republic's junior national team. Thanks to the influx of such phenomenal foreign students, these small schools now stand tall enough to conquer traditional big-school powers such as Miami Senior High, whom Northwest Christian Academy defeated this season in a holiday tournament.
Each year in Florida six separate state championships are awarded in basketball. The six divisions, or classes, are designed to allow schools with similar student enrollments to compete against one another. Class 1A consists of schools with the smallest enrollments, Class 6A the largest. At this year's championships, which will be settled this Saturday, March 11, in Lakeland, the most competitive teams weren't to be found among the Class 6A powerhouses, but rather in Class 1A and Class 2A, schools with minuscule enrollments.
That is, until Andrea Loring blew the whistle.
A two-page complaint she sent January 24 to the Florida High School Activities Association (FHSAA), the Gainesville-based governing body for high school sports, led to an investigation of Miami's leading Class 1A and Class 2A basketball programs: Berkshire Academy, Miami Christian Academy, Northwest Christian Academy, Champagnat Catholic, and tiny Gettysburg Academy, a school with an enrollment of only 35 students, a star player from the Dominican Republic, and a first-year basketball program that entered the playoffs with a 33-4 record.
The FHSAA promptly documented ineligible students at three of the schools. Three of the Dominican standouts enrolled at Miami Christian Academy had already played four years of high school ball before moving to the United States. A transfer to Northwest Christian had used up his eligibility playing ball in New Hampshire. Eight of the eleven Yugoslavian students playing for Berkshire were determined to have been recruited by the school solely to play sports, a practice explicitly forbidden by FHSAA bylaws. Punishments included season forfeitures, player suspensions, and the removal of teams from the state tournament. The two other schools remain under investigation.
Since filing her complaint, Loring has weathered blistering personal attacks from fans of and administrators at the suspect private schools. The principal of Berkshire Academy, one of two schools Loring identified by name in her complaint (Miami Christian was the other) filed a countercomplaint with the FHSAA, alleging that the mediocre team at ACE also is stocked with ineligible players. Loring's critics have been so vehement in their anger at her that she initially and repeatedly declined to discuss the matter at all.
"I'm a single mother," she explains now, finally speaking on the record. "For the first time in my life I felt scared for my safety and for that of my daughter."


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Humorous, Helpful Advice for Happier Parents and Teens
This book will be helpful to both teens and parents. You do not need to have your parents or your teen read the book to get benefit from Closing the Gap. You can simply begin closing the gap from your side. Mr. Jay McGraw (older son of Dr. Phil McGraw of Life Strategies, Relationship Rescue, and Self Matters fame) has done it again! This book is another fine effort in improving communications within families. At age 22, Mr. McGraw is close enough to being a teenager to know what it¿s like and close enough to being removed from the teenage years that he can see the parental perspective. Favoring neither perspective, he is like a matchmaker bringing together two shy people who are in love with one another . . . but unwilling to declare their love. The book opens with a heart rending story of Jennine at age 25. This woman became pregnant as an unmarried teen, dropped out of school, has been a substance abuser, has been married and divorced twice, and is just recovering from a serious automobile accident (among other problems). At a Life Strategies seminar she is attending as a guest of her parents, she turns to her parents and savagely asks, ¿Why did you let me throw my life away when you knew better and I was being a complete moron? ¿Why didn¿t you make me do right?¿ Teens: Do you want to become Jennine? Parents: Do you want your children to ask you these questions someday? To assess how well you are communicating, the book offers a brief quiz for parents about teens for teens about parents. If you are like me, you will find you have some room for improvement! The book is built around the philosophy of win-win negotiating. ¿So, teens: if you want your parents to do what you want, all you have to do is figure out what their needs are and meet them.¿ This must occur within the context of a lot of communication. The number one factor in home life quality is ¿the number of words spoken!!¿ The book explores teen myths (such as ¿my parents don¿t want me to have any fun¿ which often relates to parents wanting their teens to be safe), parent myths (such as ¿a good relationship is a peaceful one¿ underneath which all kinds of problems may fester), teen land mines (such as ¿thinking you are a lost cause¿ when everyone is ready to help you and you probably haven¿t really tried all that hard), dos and don¿ts for parents (such as having a ¿clear boundary between parent role and buddy role¿), and dos and don¿ts for teens (such as ¿look before you leap, but do leap¿ as a way to become more competent). There¿s also a fine section on anger management that teens and parents both need. The book then proceeds to explain how parents and teens can reconnect by deciding what they each want out of the relationship, explaining their own needs, finding out what the other¿s needs are, and working out a plan for reconnecting. The book has some forms that you can use for this purpose. If your parent or teen won¿t fill one out, you can try filling it out for them and showing them the result for comments. The needs described are usually for belonging, security, self-esteem, vocational and artistic expression, love and affection. The book has lots of good suggestions for activities to do together that will encourage conversation (all of those hours together watching E.R. don¿t count!). I was impressed by the advice for helping teens keep the conversation going. Rather than sulking away after being told ¿no¿ teens are encourage to ask an automatic ¿why not?¿ so that they can uncover problems they can solve . . . or at least learn something from the refusal that may help in the future. Although this is a serious subject, I thought that the humor was helpful leavening. Here¿s an example: Mr. McGraw cites that ¿ancient British philosopher Mick Jagger.¿ He also talks about the wisdom of parents who once liked Nehru suits. You can summarize the book as advising teens to explain why what they pl
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PITTSBURGH - A kindergarten student in western Pennsylvania brought bags of heroin to school and handed them out to friends, said authorities, who on Thursday asked parents to search their children's belongings for the drug.
The 7-year-old boy at a primary school in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Carrick told detectives he gave bags of the drug to three friends over the past few days, police said in a statement released late Wednesday. He called the bags the "magic ticket" because they were stamped with an image of a rabbit emerging from a magic hat, police said.
A teacher discovered the heroin and alerted the principal, who found 18 bags of the drug in the boy's locker and backpack, according to police. Police searched the school with a dog on Wednesday but found no further sign of the drug.
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Rustic and elegant 3 bedroom cottage in a quiet hillside environment.
In this holiday house you can enjoy absolute privacy, as it is only rented to one family at a time. Neither the owner resides at the property. It is an independent, to 3 sides free standing cottage in typical Tuscan style for your exclusive use with approx. 400 sq. m, from which 250 sq. m on the ground and first floor are available to our guests. The other rooms (2 on the ground floor and two on the first floor) are closed.
On one side the house borders on the neighbour house (only 2 people) whose terrace area is separated from the panoramic terrace of La Letizia by a hedge.
In 2008 the approximately 300 year old cottage has been lovingly renovated in period style. Each room is decorated individually and radiates the rustic charm of yesteryear; warm muted colors were perfectly matched with the rest of the high quality furniture.
The spacious villa offers 3 tastefully decorated bedrooms for 6 persons (2 children beds can be added at an additional cost) 2 bathrooms, 1 of them is decorated very cosy, 1 large and typical Tuscan, well equipped country house kitchen with an antique, intact chimney. The kitchen radiates a nice sense of comfort. Kitchen facilities include among others a 4 flame gas stove with extractor hood and oven, 1 dishwasher, 1 man-sized refrigerator with freezer, 1 toaster, 1 brewing coffee machine, 1 small espresso maker, 1 large marble working surface for food preparation. The elegant, spacious and grand living area with high ceilings and antique chestnut tree beams is equipped with comfortable sittings in front of an additional, wood-burning, antique chimney. The living area is partly furnished with valuable antiques. TV, DVD. The spacious, walk-in cellar is equipped with a washing machine and ironing facilities.
Ground floor and first floor are, with exception of the 2 bathrooms, completely laid with terracotta.
To the cottage belong approximately 1,3 acres of partially enclosed grounds with a large olive grove. From the sunny, large panoramic terrace in front of the house equipped with a swing chair, garden furniture with umbrella you can enjoy a fantastic view of the surrounding hills and the Montalbano. Perfect is as well the sheltered pergola with garden furniture (amongst others large garden table for 6 people with valuable Majolica work), table tennis and a BBQ made of antique terracotta. The terrace is almost completely surrounded by a natural stone wall.
On the olive grove terrace below the panoramic terrace, easily accessible via 14 steps, the octagonal pool invites you to enjoy a refreshing bath. (5,10m in diameter, 1, 30 m in depth). For a maximum of comfort for our guests we have opted for a smaller pool right at the house with panoramic view, a larger one could just have been placed further away from the house due to space reasons.
The area in front of the pool is decorated with a manicured lawn and is ideal for sunbathing. The sun will spoil you here the whole day. Due to the high stone wall behind the pool's natural heat is stored even longer, so you can enjoy a pleasant warmth in the high-and especially in the middle season even late at night. Also from the pool area you can enjoy a fantastic view of the surrounding green hills with their silvery-green shining olive trees. Additionally there was installed an exterior shower with warm water next to the pool. Pets are welcome.
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