Reading Time: 3 minutesThis essay reflects Sophia’s journey from gardening with ornamental plants to adopting a native plant-focused approach. Initially, Sophia believed her choice of ornamental plants was beneficial to local wildlife, but their perspective shifted after encountering the work of entomologist, Dr. Doug Tallamy.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food” delves into the world of heirloom seeds and the critical role they play in ensuring food security and biodiversity.
Author Janisse Ray brings readers along a thought-provoking journey through her personal experiences with seed saving and introduces us to a network of passionate gardeners, farmers, and activists who dedicate themselves to preserving rare and endangered crop varieties. She sheds light on the challenges faced by industrial agriculture and emphasizes the need for grassroots efforts to protect our food heritage.
A winner of the American Horticultural Society Book award and is a prestigious Nautilus Book Awards, The Seed Underground is a compelling call to action for everyone, urging us to reconnect with our food sources and support the movement towards seed sovereignty.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdam Alexander is a Welsh gardener and award-winning film & television producer who brings us along his journey to collect and preserve rare and endangered heritage and heirloom vegetables.
Alexander’s passion is in engendering a feeling of connectedness to the land. He achieves this by reintroducing people to their own food culture & heritage and provides encouragement to eat more locally-produced food.
The Seed Detective is a story of “globalization, political intrigue, colonization and serendipity – describing how these vegetables and their travels have become embedded in our food cultures.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this post we share key learnings from In this post we share key learnings from Joy Larkcom’s “Creative Vegetable Gardening”, a book that provides valuable insights, inspiration, and practical advice for creating a beautiful and productive kitchen garden or potager.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this post we share a list of companies that specialize in organic, or at least GMO-free, seeds. There are many options that are open-pollinated varieties. Most of these companies are small business, if not self-owned.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post we share our photos from our assembly of the Boldly Growing Cedar Raised Gardens Beds (4×2).
This raised bed will allow you to create a dream kitchen garden just outside your home that not only looks beautiful but is also rot-resistant due to the cedar wood. It only took us 15 minutes to assemble after reading the six-step instruction card and watching a supplementary YouTube video.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPiotr Socha and Wojciech Grajkowski, with their respective backgrounds in fine arts and biology, bring their love of trees alive in their book “Trees: A Rooted History”. Through beautiful illustrations and in-depth descriptions of how trees have literally and figuratively shaped the world around us, Trees is a treat of a read for children and adults alike.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post we share a step-by-step guide to building a simple floating deck. We plan to place a child’s playhouse on top of it, as the deck will anchor the space and make the play area feel more complete.
We used The Handmade Home’s “The Handmade Hideaway” & Rose to Life’s “Easy Floating Deck” as inspiration and adapted the plans to bring this deck to fruition. This guide does not require complicated plans, tools or the help of a handyman.
Included are step-by-step directions, notes, photos and a price breakdown of what this project will cost.
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