Woodland farms (also known as forest gardens) are an agricultural concept which copies a self-sustaining forest ecosystem except that it is made to produce a variety of food that is easily harvestable. Woodland farms have a lot of different things going on in them to maximize sustainability, efficiency, and productivity but they are all simple, [...]

Says Michael Pollan, journalist and author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, as well as his newest book, In Defense of food. These seven words are his guidelines for a healthy diet, but, as he said, his publisher was looking for 60,000 words not a post card.
Fortunately, it is a lot more complicated than that. At the [...]

Guerrilla gardening is essentially beautifying and/or producing food from places that are neglected. Usually they are city property. An example of guerilla gardening is growing flowers on those strips of grass along sidewalks.
Yesterday I went to a conference called Growing Citizens: Gardening as a catalyst for civic engagement. One of the speakers talked about the [...]