To most gardeners, fall is a time to clean up and prune their lawns and gardens for next season; winter is a time to reflect and plan for the year ahead. But did you know you can skip tidying up the and enjoy your garden even in the dead of…
Kokedama are an unusual, understated, and unsung type of bonsai. Suitable for indoors or out, they make a great activity for the long mid-winter. We spend a great deal of time working with soil materials in our workshop, and sometimes, we come up with ideas besides making seed balls. Our seed…
Bentley Christie is the Nikola Tesla of vermicomposting. Wild innovation, the optimism of a visionary, and with the earthy drive to share with people: never since Mary Applehof has anyone promoted composting worms so enthusiastically, so passionately, and reached such a diverse audience. Bentley is a Canadian worm farmer and…
The front of my lot has a north-west facing steep slope. It isn’t large, maybe 1/16 an acre. The first land owner, in the 1980s, covered it with a dense geo textile and small rocks and planted trailing junipers. In the years since, the junipers have died and opportunistic species…
Pros, cons, and recommendations You have a vision of green pastures a-buzz with bees, leaping antelopes grazing on native prairie grasses. Or maybe you are sick of seeing the eroding barren soil on the abandoned lot that you pass everyday. Seed balls might be the solution. There are a few…
