If you are looking to harvest more homegrown food in your garden, why not take a note from nature and grow like a forest? In the wild, plants grow in complimentary layers to maximize space and ...

Modern gardening often involves weeding, turning the soil, fertilization, and pest control. But permaculture is the practice of growing a garden with the least amount of intervention possible, relying ...

Food forests act like a forest of trees with layers of crops from a canopy of fruit trees down to root crops like sweet potatoes. Question: I am very interested in growing a food forest; however, our ...

In the face of rising global temperatures and climate change, gardeners and homeowners are increasingly looking at ways of making their gardens more sustainable. From drought-tolerant planting to ...

For healthy food and a wealth of other tangible and intangible yields, here are some offbeat places to plant a forest garden. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X URI intern Allie Douma with volunteer Brandon Doyle, prepping a tree for planting. Credit: Sonia ...

As a whole, the University of Massachusetts has been working to become as ecologically friendly as possible for over a decade. This is a goal without a well-established finish line. It is the type of ...

Shop for native plants at Sonoma Garden Park or volunteer in a “food forest” in Petaluma. While the big garden club plant sales have ended for the season, the Sonoma Garden Park continues to hold ...

The UMass Lowell Food Forest was established in spring 2024 and is home to a variety of fruit trees, and edible perennial plants. Located at 46 Wilder Street on South Campus, members of the campus and ...

It’s not easy to convince a room full of first graders to try broccoli sprouts, but Matt Zuk did just that on a recent Friday morning. As founding CEO of Terroir Designs, Zuk has partnered with Penn ...