If you don’t mind doing a little digging this time of year, making your own Echinacea Tincture is seriously easy and way cheaper than what you will pay at the store. There are nine species of...
The name of this plant alone says just how cool it is. With a weird spiky flower that beneficial insects love, the Rattlesnake Master (a.k.a. Yucca-leaf Eryngo, Button Snakeroot) is a must have...
Blue Lobelia blooms in late summer (July to September) on one-to-four foot spikes. The plant got its latin name, Lobelia siphilitica, because it was thought to cure syphilis. Blue Lobelia self-seeds...
As August turns to September, it is a good time to start planning and planting fall crops. The following is a list of planting tips that can help you have success growing edibles well into the...
Aunt Em’s Urban Inn+Farm is San Francisco’s first and only farmstay! At their inn and farm, you’d never know you were right smack dab in the middle of a sophisticated big-city. Aunt Em’s got started...
Sunchoke or Jerusalem Artichoke, Sunroot, Lambchoke, Topinambur, Girasol, Girasole, or Gerasole (Helianthus tuberosus) is a beautiful hardy perennial plant that is native to North America and has a...
Coneflowers are one of those native flowers that is beautiful, long-blooming, attractive to bees, butterflies, and birds, and offers medicinal benefit to us. What else can you ask for in a flower...
Jan Hoadley grew up on a family farm in Illinois, and learned early that being different was OK. She’d been drawn to heritage and heirloom varieties partly because of the historical aspect...
Every year I tuck a few rows of marigolds in the garden, and every year about this time they start to take over. But since marigolds are such a beneficial plant for garden pest control, it is no...
by Mary Pellerito The joy of learning about native plants is understanding their role in the ecosystem. And it is pretty cool to see that ecosystem working in your own garden. Take the cup plant. ...