Wood pallets are great garden building materials. If you can collect three to nine pallets, and make sure they are the right type, you can build an easy and long-lasting compost system. Here is how we built ours.
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Steal these food photography tips and tricks from the pros! We recently talked with Shell Royster, professional food photographer, about capturing delicious looking images on a cellphone.
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Don’t assume every edible plant’s flowers are also edible! Here, we offer a primer to selecting and cooking with nine of summer's tastiest blooms.
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Edible flower recipes include colorful garnishes that update a favorite dish, but flowers can also take center stage. Get in on this restaurant trend with these edible flower recipes.
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Summer cooking doesn’t mean abandoning elegance. Chilled soups showcase the garden's crisp flavors and bright colors. Revisit this culinary classic with these vegan cold soup recipes inspired by the urban garden.
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Southerners do not like mayonnaise in coleslaw. I grew up eating this Southern cider vinegar coleslaw, my grandmother's recipe, and it's everything I love in a coleslaw.
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Maybe your plants got blight, or frost is coming. Whatever the reason, if you find yourself with a basket of green tomatoes, then this recipe for Southern Fried Green Tomatoes is the classic solution.
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Planning next year’s garden? This gallery of images from Richmond's Oregon Hill neighborhood shows how you can carve out some creative and attractive garden space in small urban neighborhoods.
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A thoughtfully curated container garden can yield multiple meals’ worth of healthy vegetables. Here are three themed plant mixes for what vegetables to grow in pots, and recipe ideas to show off your harvest.
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Looking for a great way to meet your gardening neighbors, build community and get free plants? Host a seed and plant swap! Here are five tips for how to organize a seed and plant swap for your neighborhood.
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Healthy soil is the key to organic urban gardening. But do you know how healthy your soil is? Evaluate the texture, ingredients and structure of your soil with these simple tests.
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At Urban Choice Mushrooms, the "farmland" is a shadowy warehouse; the plant rows are shelves of plastic bags; and the produce ranges in color from bluish grey to vivid yellow. This is the modern mushroom farm.
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A winter cover crop will replenish your soil with critical nutrients, prevent weeds from growing and even provide a handy green mulch. Here are 4 ways to work that no-till cover crop into the soil come spring.
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When we found these bicycle wheels, we knew we had to make a trellis. We saved money over buying something ready-made, and our garden art reflects our own distinctive personality. Here's how to make one yourself.
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We tried ollas for easy garden watering last summer, and they worked so well that we're installing more. Ollas work sort of like drip irrigation, but they're much cheaper and easier to install. Here's how.
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We didn't even use our garden hose last summer. Instead, we use our urban garden rain barrel to save gallons of non-chlorinated garden water every time it rains. Here are the five features to look for.
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Beaver Creek Farm raises quail, pheasant and other lean and flavorful game birds on five acres of land in Varina, Virginia, and another ten acres in King William. Owner Spencer Moore talks about his work.
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Last winter we sent away for all the seed catalogs to evaluate which are best, and why. We focused on heirloom seeds because those vegetables have superior flavor. Which seed catalog is the right one for you? Here's how to decide.
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Before we designed our urban garden I did quite a bit of research on the various options for garden construction materials. Here's why we decided on pressure treated wood for raised beds.
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Hosting a plant exchange isn't just about growing plants, it's about growing your urban community. A strong gardening community helps everyone in these five ways.
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