Gridiron to Garden Glory

Courtesy PepsiCo Food for Good Initiative The Food for Good Farm, a joint urban farm project between PepsiCo and Paul Quinn College, was built on the college’s former football field. In a place like Dallas, Texas—one of the U.S.’s top burgeoning cities in a state that hosts some of the country’s best ranch land—it’s hard […]

Apple Trees

In the seductive showing of spring, the get-up I look for and like best is the apple blossoms.

The Saga of Baby Jo

We never intended to have roosters, but when two of the rescue "pullets” we adopted grew long wattles and flowing tails, we realized the chicken life on our urban farm would be different than what we had imagined.

Cottage-garden Fever

Cottage gardens are chaotic mixes of one of this and one of that, and while the big mess may be quite charming sometimes, the unfortunate result is a lack of fundamental power.


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