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Gardening

Making Hay

What’s worse for our planet than all of the pollution produced by China, and a major source of catastrophic droughts, erosion and even climate change?

Heritage Grains

By Laura McKissack Heritage grains are those that have remained much the same, genetically speaking, as when early European, Andean and Aztec farmers tilled their

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Live, At Center Stage

By Elizabeth WinslowPhotography by Jenna Noel Ever since Linnaeus published his Systema Naturae, we’ve been wont to classify Mother Nature. Plants serve as food, medicine

A Reminder of Time

A lack of passed-down wisdom regarding the many tips, hints, tricks and timing about gardening can be one of the biggest hurdles faced by new

Food-Heirarchy

War on Waste

By Brandi Clark Burton While most of us enjoy eating, very few people truly appreciate the enormous amounts of human, environmental and economic resources that

Hügelkultur

By Laura McKissack Photography of hügelkultur beds at in.gredients by Whitney Arostegui Back when I began teaching and was freshly moved into a new place, I

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Haute Herbs

By Jim Long Creative chefs are always on the lookout for unique and unusual herbs and plants to complement and flavor their dishes. Here are

Mushrooms - Sophia-Stack

100th Monkey Mushroom Farm

by Cari Marshall At six years old, Sophia Stack knows more about growing mushrooms than the average kindergartner. She dexterously mists a blossom of oyster

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Tooling Around

Photography by Nicole Lessin It was logical that the Holly Neighborhood Coalition would ask a team of public interest design graduate students at the University

Never Too Old To Grow

Senior citizens prefer card games indoors; gardening is best suited to the young and physically fit; and older people can’t tolerate the Texas sun. These

Eco Yard-Keeping

By Jeremy WaltherIllustration by Hillary Weber-Gale Sustainability in the home landscape is more than just a set calendar of seasonal tasks, especially in variable-draped Central