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We held our fourth Edible Gardens Tour this past weekend and once again want to thank the hosts of the ten participating gardens. This year we expanded the idea of edible (edible to whom??) and added gardens with native plants attractive to pollinators—the birds, bees, wasps, butterflies and other often disregarded creatures who make the […]
Ask a Gardener: A Food Grower’s Roundtable was enlightening once more this year with another great panel! If you want some pre-planting inspiration…
We combined two of our favorite winter get-togethers this year, the seed swap and winter sowing, at the Morton Memorial Library in Rhinecliff. We had a great turnout!
Our gardens are down, the weather is finally committing to fall and Thanksgiving’s just a week away—what better time to say how much we appreciate all of you?
Green Owl Farm’s Suzanne Kelly grows specialty crops, including saffron, lufffa and turmeric, and oversees Rhinebeck’s Natural Burial Ground
If you’ve ever grown plants from seed, you know how rewarding it is to watch a tiny bit of matter turn into melons and dill, flowers and zucchini. Growing from seeds you’ve saved takes that sense of wonder to another realm.
Those of you with edible gardens know that July tends to be a month of abundance. Consider sharing the bounty with the food pantries.
Native plants and pollinators have co-evolved for generations, perfecting an eco-dance of interdependence and resilence.
Dirty Gaia’s been busy! We packed up individual bundles of the carefully sourced and measured ingredients that form the bulding blocks of a seed library and sent them off to 14 libraries in the Mid-Hudson Library System
Nevermind the ice, snow and inhospitable temperatures. We’re approaching prime winter-sowing season in the Northeast.