Sustainable Gardening Articles

Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents.
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Kenyan proverb.

Hay! Make Good Mulch.
Have you got a few old hay bales lying around? Want some good ideas about how to put them to use in your organic garden? Answers here.
Winterizing Your Garden
It's fall, time to forget about the garden, right? Well, you may be tempted to ignore it until next spring, but what you do now to get your garden ready for winter can make a big difference next year. Here's what to do to put your garden to bed for the season.
Air Layering for Difficult to Root Plants
Believed to have been developed by the Chinese centuries ago.... this method has been used successfully as a mean of propagating some more difficult-to-root plants.
Air Layering for Easy Plant Propagation
Propagating plants is a great way to make many plants from one, however many gardeners have not been very successful with rooting new plants from cuttings. Well there is a better way. Air layering is easy, and the success rate is much higher....
Slow Food
What does the phrase "slow food" bring to mind? If you were told that "Slow Food" is an international movement with 80,000 members in 100 countries, could you guess its focus? Here's a hint: Slow Food was born in Italy in 1986, and the international movement was founded in Paris in 1989. What do these two cultures have in common, food-wise?
Keep Plants Green with Gray Water
In times of drought, most home gardeners must ration their water usage, watering vegetables and favorite flowers while watching their lawns and other plants wither. But across the country some intrepid gardeners are foregoing the tap and turning to another source: gray water.
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser. This New York Times bestselling, nonfiction book gives a thorough and accurate account of problems with today’s fast food society, including conditions on factory farms and in slaughterhouses. Excellently written and researched.
How Sustainable Agriculture Can Address the Environmental and Human Health Harms of Industrial Agriculture
Leo Horrigan, Robert S. Lawrence, and Polly Walker, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. Well researched and easy-to-read article on the benefits of sustainable agriculture and the problems with factory farming. Published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed journal, in May 2002.
My Year of Meats, by Ruth Ozeki. Though fictional, this easy-to-read novel exposes the American meat industry for what it is. Ozeki uses humor to make a confusing, overwhelming issue palatable.
The Meatrix.
For a short, entertaining film on the problems with our meat supply, watch this award-winning animated Matrix spoof produced by GRACE and Free Range Graphics.
Energy Conservation in the Greenhouse.
The responsibility for changing to a sustainable lifestyle � one that meets the needs of the present while respecting the ability of future generations to meet their needs, rests with each of us.
Protecting Plants From the Cold
If the weather suddenly turns cold, early-flowering and tender plants may need special protection to avoid damage by freezing temperatures. There are several ways you can provide winter protection...

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Propagation by Cuttings
Air Layering for Difficult-to-Root Plants
is an article from Texas A&M; Extension that provides easy instructions on air layering with good visuals to make the procedure even easier to understand. Give it a try and you'll soon been running around looking for plants to air layer!

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Discover how to easily build an attractive and affordable greenhouse that will grow anything in any conditions. Also, building your own greenhouse just makes economical sense. You can build a greenhouse at just a fraction of the cost of buying a pre-built one. Most pre-built greenhouse you buy need to be assembled anyway, you are really just paying hugely inflated prices for the material.

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Book of the Month

Daughter of Iowa farmers, Missouri homesteader, and mother of five, Diane Ott Whealy never anticipated that one day she would become a leader in a grass-roots movement to preserve our agricultural biodiversity. The love for the land and the respect for heirloom seeds that Diane shared with her husband, Kent Whealy, led to their starting Seed Savers Exchange in 1975. Read More...