Recipe: Disappearing whole wheat spiced pumpkin pancakes
Find out how to make delicious spiced pumpkin pancakes from scratch using wholesome, organic ingredients like whole wheat organic flavor and homemade pumpkin puree!
Epigenetics: you are what your grandparents ate
Epigenetics: what you eat, drink, smoke, think, and do has a biological impact on your children and grandchildren.
Building healthy soil explained in a single photo
Want to know how to naturally build healthy soil in your garden? We’ll explain how and show you a single image that says more than a a thousands words!
How to easily make an affordable mini-greenhouse
Trying to figure out how to make a small and affordable mini-greenhouse? Here’s a step-by-step DIY guide showing you how to make your own for about $200. Use this mini-greenhouse to protect seedlings or cold-sensitive potted plants, or extend the growing season in a garden bed.
Realizations From Killing and Eating A Duck We Raised Ourselves
Killing and eating a duck we raised ourselves was one of the hardest things we’ve ever done. What did we learn in the process? The answers may surprise you.
Our first duck eggs… plus some egg-laying tips
Our oldest Welsh Harlequin duck, Lady Margaret Thrasher, laid her first duck eggs today! Here are a few egg laying tips to get your ducks to start laying.
A Visit to Windy Hill Orchard & Cidery
We recently went to York, SC to visit Windy Hill Orchard & Cidery, a multi-generational, family-owned apple farm that produces our favorite hard ciders.
RIP Cindy the Wheelbarrow (2009-2013). You’ll Be Missed.
Cindy the wheelbarrow passed away this weekend. She was the best wheelbarrow we ever had, and she’ll be missed. This is her story.
Three permaculture lessons from a great summer growing season
It’s been a great growing season, despite record rains that devastated nearby farms and gardens. Here are 3 permaculture lessons we learned this summer…
Recipe: Green Garlic Pesto
How to make the world’s best organic green garlic pesto (and kill vampires) using heirloom hardneck garlic!
Experiencing the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Sequence in your garden
Can our sense of beauty—from spiral galaxies to a sunflower—be attributed to mathematical equations? More importantly, how does that math taste? Meet (and eat) the Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci Sequence!
The NEW American yard: monoculture grass farm or organic food farm?
Tired of growing a monoculture grass yard? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Millions of other grass farmers are fed up too. There’s a better way!
Unsoiling the story of soil
Why should you care about soil? What do you get in return? Come learn about soil and how you are intimately linked to soil.
Top Pictures of the Week Woven Into One Tall Tale (featuring a real Mountain Lion)
One of the scariest tall tales you’ll ever read… the Tyrant Farms mountain lion story. Deep in the woods behind Tyrant Farms, we found the beast.
Good Times: the TEDxGreenville Salon at Sans Souci Community Garden
With people like Matt Manley, Neil Collins, and the other Sans Souci gardening members we met (ranging from young children to retirees), it seems pretty clear that this is a place that is reestablishing a shared identity and a true community—with a garden at the center of it all.