Drawing on nearly 50 years of teaching organic farming and gardening, the staff of the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden Apprenticeship and invited authors have developed an updated and expanded resource ...

Eliot Coleman, whose 1989 book inspired generations of gardeners, shared the lessons he has been teaching for the past 50 ...

As we move along in spring the weather has been improving day by day and the urge to get involved with the earth may be growing. Why not consider getting out and growing some of your own vegetables.

Suddenly, the healthy lifestyle niche looks like it is turning into the hottest category in a beleaguered magazine industry. Rodale, in the midst of the category’s rapid rise, said Friday it will ...

This is the third video in a 5 part series on seed saving for fruit and vegetable plants. In this episode (Ep3) I explain how I save the category I call "Wet Seeds" from our food garden to grow more ...

Grasshoppers are ancient insects that have inhabited Earth for more than two million years. Their populations can explode after heavy rainfall, and they can be a major threat to food gardens. This ...

When faced with a pest problem, gardeners often wish for a solution that comes in a spray bottle and not the safer option of organic pesticides. It’s true that many poisons sold in garden centers will ...

If you live in the city, chances are you don’t have much real estate to grow vegetables. Enter Aqualibrium: a miniature, modular, urban farming aquaponics system that gives renters a year-round, ...

Brad Wynne doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty so his customers can veg out and relax. The North End resident has found a niche in helping people build and maintain a vegetable garden. His business, ...

One of the most effective organic gardening tools is also one of the most controversial. Whether it's black spot on roses, purple spots and yellow leaves on photinia and Indian hawthorn, brown patch ...