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...
7 ways to get rid of Poison Ivy and Poison Oak without using harsh and toxic chemical sprays. Listed in order of distance from and contact potential with plant. 1. Graze a goat there. Spanish and...
“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener’s own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the...
Have you ever wondered if worms fall from the sky? OK, probably not, but then why every time after it rains are there worms in the bottom of the bowls and buckets I leave sitting around the garden? ...
Garlic is an excellent and cheap way to deter many sucking and soft bodied insects such as aphids and whiteflies. You can also use it to curb fungal growth in place of sulphur sprays. Ingredients: 3...
by Mary Pellerito As I’ve said before in this space, I really enjoy watching nature at work in my garden. I enjoy watching robins pull worms up from the ground. I enjoy watching birds creating...
by Mary Pellerito As I was searching for how native plants got their names, I came across the story of Black-eyed Susan and Sweet William as told in an old English poem by John Gay (1685-1732). Here...
Onions are a staple in most peoples home and market gardens. They are relatively easy to grow but prefer a loose, loamy soil, with a pH of somewhere between 6 and 7. If you are planting onions...
By Marcia Zoladz Gertrude Stein, the American writer who lived most of her life in Paris, created something that she called a text landscape. Instead of depicting a person in watercolors or paints...
Peach trees are deciduous and have a lifespan of a little under fifty years. Originating in China, the peach tree, like most other temperate and tropical plants, is an angiosperm. As such, their...