Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue – We Eat Them Both and You Can Too
A lis of our favorite edible flowers for the garden. How to grow and eat a variety of cold and warm-weather flowers from your garden.
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.
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…
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!
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.
A beautiful, humbling hummingbird rescue experience during the first day at TyrantFarms.com…
A hummingbird rescue on the first day of Tyrant Farms… and what our hummingbird logo means.