Hard-hit community learns to grow food

Many of the new gardeners didn't know how to grow vegetables, and weren't sure what to do with them once they did.

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Queen gives green-minded son gardening award

Prince Charles, an avid gardener and environmentalist, has received Britain's top gardening award from his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

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Fighting the recession, armed with seeds

Hoe in hand, Kate Kinne works her field on a cold March day.

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Dollars from dirt: Economy spurs home garden boom

With the recession in full swing, many Americans are returning to their roots — literally — cultivating vegetables in their backyards to squeeze every penny out of their food budget.

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Maine library offers garden tools

Borrowers at the Turner Public Library can choose from a large selection of gardening books — and more than a dozen hand tools to carry out their chosen projects.

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Guerrilla gardeners dig in to beautify Los Angeles

More than a dozen people, some wearing orange protective gear, pulled rakes and shovels from a dingy shopping cart and started working on a parched patch of land along a busy off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway.

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Brent Green stays true to his name. He sees the world in plants. When people saw how he had transformed his own home, they wished theirs could look like his. So, on his 30th birthday he planted 30 trees in L.A. because he loves the city.

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About two kilometers from the Dead Sea and two from where Jesus was christened, in the country of Jordan, Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute and his crew created a near miracle turning desert into a lush permaculture garden.

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As the author of "The Green Gardener's Guide," I've written the book on essential ways to green your garden while protecting the planet.

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In his nursery, plant man Paul Bonine found himself inexplicably drawn to black – black leaves, black stems, black flowers. These anomalies of nature are living contradictions.

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Around the world millions of children have to go to great lengths to get a proper education. In the fourth report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Lorna Gordon talks to 11-year-old Jordan, whose long journey to school every morning involves a bike ride, a ferry, and a bus.

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Maybe the biggest health care improvement we can make is teaching Americans how to cook!

Through diverse conversations over the years, I've realized that my 40-something generation didn't learn how to cook very well, then didn't teach the now 20-something generation because they could no longer pass down the heritage of home-made cooking.

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Business lessons from the Garden.

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Win-Win: Edible Schoolyards

Here's the first in what will hopefully be a series of articles about win-win solutions to America's challenges. The focus will be on the ingenuity, capability and optimism of the American people (read: not the American government).

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Time To Stop And Smell The Roses.

Being unemployed certainly has its drawbacks but on the other hand it has its joys too. Now I have the time to do all the things I put off until tomorrow. Like going to the park with my great nieces and nephews. Canning my own jellies again. Redoing the flowers in my yard.

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The family silently bearing the large sunflower had never been to the fair before. But this was important.

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A non-profit called Growing Home has converted two vacant lots, so far, into organic gardens. Local produce costs less–both economically and environmentally–so why not grow it in the inner city?

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Artist Kenny Scharf's hilltop garden in Culver City is no Monet masterpiece. It is more like a Georgia O'Keeffe -- rocks and concrete pavers set among colorful succulents and exotic cactuses that look like stones and desiccated brains.

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I am embarrassed that I missed this innovation in gardening and sure fire way to enlarge my tomato crop. But thanks to Finnish scientists, I now know that applications of human urine will increase the size of your tomatoes.

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An unemployed man who refused to do menial labour as part of a retraining exercise has gone to court to appeal against what he says is 'forced labour', the NRC reports.

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Crown Princess Margareta, has loads of fragrant roses in late spring, then a few more continue to bloom, except in the hottest of summer. And, now there are even more light blooms that will continue till frost.

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Dear Green Bean Vines, Why do you do this to me?

Dear Green Bean Vines, Why do you do this to me?

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Red, Purple, and Orange Wildflowers -- Plus Helpful Hints!

Interested in planting native wildflowers in your garden? Here are some helpful hints! Going NATIVE, (with native plants), is exciting! There are a few key things to remember when beginning to use native plants:

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Patio Gardens for Hummingbirds and Butterflies

A dear friend made a request for suggestions of native flowers to use that would attract hummingbirds to his patio. This means that the flowers must be planted in pots!

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Two Lexington, Kentucky brothers do gardening and sell their produce to neighborhood residents via a wagon.

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While the most ardent locavores, who truly grasp the intent behind the local-food movement, will not be swayed by a fancy ad campaigns about potato chips, it's likely the masses just may. Or at least that's what Frito-Lay will be hoping for.

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As a sustainable-food aficionado, my attitude toward Whole Foods and other national chains offering organic food changes based on the available alternatives.

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An Eye for the Blooms of Summer Color

Spring is long gone and the second flowering season of summer is quickly passing. Those are the seasonal months during which I plant and nurture my garden, pulling weeds, monitoring disease, then watching nature's birds and insects come to feed and pollinate.

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How do you get out there to take care of the plants? I asked. "I just open the window and jump out." Not many gardeners will jump out a second floor window to water their organic garden, but Kevin Mackey at the Springfield Brewing Company does almost everyday.

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When it comes to a healthy diet, I am not a purist. Too late for that because I grew up eating such culinary concoctions as toasted sandwiches constructed of Spam, white bread and that oddly orange, oddly spongy cheeselike stuff known as Velveeta.

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My husband pruned the tip of his finger off. We went to the ER. The hospital stopped the bleeding. My husband lived. Then, St Francis hospital charged us $961.40. But we have good insurance, GEHA.

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