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...
by Mary Pellerito For those of us with gardens on which a large native tree, like an oak or maple, simply will not fit, try understory trees. These smaller trees are called understory trees because...
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...
Have you noticed kale chips are becoming commonplace at the health food store lately? A good fad food indeed! Kale is such a super nutritious food (good source of Protein, Thiamin, Riboflavin...
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 John Moretti If there’s any vegetable that tastes better than one you’ve found in a farmer’s market, it’s one you’ve grown at home from seed. Sort of like raising children, where others see a ton...
by Mary Pellerito Part of the beauty of native plants is the role they play in the wider environment. Native plants just aren’t pretty to look at. They provide food and shelter for creatures...