Small Sustainable Farms in Oregon and Washington

Perennial Vegetables Are a Solution in the Fight Against Hunger and Climate Change | Civil Eats A new study shows the nutrition and environmental benefits of more than 600 perennial species—from artichokes to chaya—which address climate mitigation, biodiversity, and nutrition.

Hospital’s Rooftop Garden Provides 7000 Pounds of Organic Veggies a Year for Patients Recognizing “food is medicine,” a Boston hospital puts an organic farm on its roof High above the Boston Medical Center grows a bountiful organic vegetable garden that feeds patients, staff and the poor. More than a hundred volunteers tend the garden, which includes kale, collard greens, bok cho...

Most People Hate Weeds. This Botanist Loves 'Em — Here's Why Weeds have a bad reputation, but they perform a lot of ecosystem services, for free.

Lilacs are edible! Medicinal too.

Lilac: An Edible and Medicinal Treat | The Practical Herbalist Lilac shrubs have always been one of my favorite signs of spring. Growing up in Eastern Oregon we wouldn't see the blooms until at least May, but here in the Willamette Valley we are blessed seeing them bloom as early as the beginning of April. Vases filled with freshly cut lilac reminds me ...

Nearly 40% of Russia's Food Still Comes From Small, Family Gardens Almost half of Russia’s food is grown in backyard gardens! While most of the world is completely dependent on industrial agriculture, the Russian people feed themselves. As recently as 2011, a full 40% of the food produced in Russia came from small, household gardens called dachas. That number is ...

14 Garden Plants That Repel Mosquitoes Keep mosquitoes away from your home and yard with these beautiful smelling plants. Most of them are also edible. The following 14 common garden plants are both aesthetically and aromatically appealing to humans, while sending mosquitoes and other pesky bugs “running” for the hills. Most of them ...

Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Requires Only a Few Hours of Work Per Month For those who haven't seen this yet, check it out.

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20 Shade Tolerant Plants To Grow In Your Garden This Summer With a rise in people wanting to become more sustainable, finding places to grow things can be tricky. That’s why you’re going to be shocked to discover that there are over 20 shade tolerant plants

Antidepressant Microbes In Soil: How Soil Makes You Happy Soil microbes have been found to have similar effects on the brain as prozac without the negative side effects and potential for chemical dependency and withdrawal.

Tomatoes Hate Cucumbers: Secrets of Companion Planting and Popular Planting Combinations Find out which fruit and vegetables should and shouldn’t be planted together with our companion planting chart for some of the most popular garden foods!

Want to double world food production? Return the land to small farmers! All over the world, small farmers are being forced off their land to make way for corporate agriculture, writes GRAIN - and it's justified by the need to 'feed the world'. But it's the small farmers that are the most productive, and the more their land is grabbed, the more global hunger increases. W...

Organic Farms Are Slowing Climate Change Check out the emerging science that shows organic agriculture could help slow climate change.

Foodscaping; A New Way To Create A Garden | Garden Culture Magazine Foodscaping is a trend taking off in yards around the world. From style and structure to plant choice, follow these tips for a perfectly-planned edible garden.

Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.

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I adore have these birds on a farm. And their feathers are beautiful!

Guinea Fowl: Reasons Why You Need One on Your Farm Guinea fowl may not be the most attractive poultry but they make it up by being very useful.

Metro Buses Converted Into Mobile Food Markets For Low Income Neighborhoods The city of Toronto has launched a program that converts old unused metro buses into mobile grocery stores called Mobile Good Food Markets, and ever since, they've been traveling across the Toronto metropolitan area selling affordable fresh food.

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The High School Where Learning to Farm Is a Graduation Requirement The nation’s first USDA-certified organic campus integrates farm work and food production into every aspect of student life.

Gardening could be the hobby that helps you live to 100 Many of the world's centenarians share one common hobby: gardening. Could you extend your life and drop your stress by taking up the pursuit, too?

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The Amazon is a Man-Made Food Forest, Researchers Discover Most of the edible plants in the rainforest were planted by humans over 4500 years ago, new study finds. Modern farmers should look to these ancient forest gardeners for the key to sustainable food production. Ancient humans were practicing a form of agriculture known as horticulture or permaculture...

Farmers Are Using Ghost Peppers Instead Of Pesticides

Donkey nannies in Italy.
Each year in Italy, grazing animals are moved from high pastures down to the plains. Newborn lambs are unable to make this journey on their own. Instead, they ride in the pouches of a specially made saddle on the back of a donkey or a mule nanny. They are taken down at rest stops and returned to their mothers for a bite to eat and a bit of nuzzling.
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How To Build Underground Greenhouse - Garden Organize The underground greenhouse (or pit greenhouse) is mostly buried into the ground because the soil helps keep the temperature constant, somewhere around 16 degrees, when placed at one-meter-deep, even if outside the thermometer shows a...

If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer | Isabella Tree Intensively farmed meat and dairy are a blight, but so are fields of soya and maize. There is another way, says the farmer Isabella Tree

Raw Pumpkin Seeds as a Dewormer for Chickens Did you know that raw pumpkin seeds are a natural de-wormer for chickens? I had never heard this, but always looking for a good holistic remedy, I looked into this a bit and seems a lot of people put stock in this tasty treatment. According to Elaine from Sunny Simple Life, pumpkin seeds are coated....

Mushroom-Based Pesticide Could Make Chemical Pesticides Obsolete This non-toxic fungus-based insecticide kills over 200,000 pesky insects without harming bees A all-natural mushroom-based insecticide could make bee-harming neonicotinoids and most other chemical pesticides obsolete. It’s not toxic to humans, pollinators, fish, birds or any other non-targeted ani...

UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Only Way to Feed the World Even as the United States government continues to push for the use of more chemically-intensive and corporate-dominated farming methods such