Courtesy Stock.XCHNG Residents in Kansas City, Mo., who want to sell produce from their home gardens may do so thanks to a new city-farming ordinance. Last summer, if a gardener in Kansas City, Mo., wanted to put up a sign and sell a few excess tomatoes in her front yard, she’d be breaking the law. […]
Photo by Audrey Pavia Randy with Rio, who haunts his dreams. My husband Randy grew up in the mean streets of New York City, in a tough Italian-American neighborhood. While kids living in rural communities were raising lambs for 4-H, Randy was fighting off muggers, crazy people and bullies. He learned to survive with his […]
Courtesy Purdue University The compost sock technology being studied by reasearchers at Ohio State University Extension could extend the growing season for urban gardeners. At the beginning of June, Ohio State University Extension horticulturists at OSU South Centers in Piketon, Ohio, were picking their high-tunnel strawberries, about a month ahead of the area’s field-grown strawberries. […]
I have a thing for gloves. Although my wife wouldn’t agree (because she’s always looking at the various scrapes, thorns and wounds on my hands), I do really enjoy wearing gloves, and I have a long history of owning lots of pairs of garden and work gloves.
