It’s thought that slow gardening emerged in the 1980s, taking inspiration from the Slow Food movement (founded it Italy by Carlo Petrini). It is also a book you can buy by Mississippi gardener Felder Rushing, who unlike his name suggests, promotes a simple, no-stress approach to horticulture via his radio show and published work. When approaching a new garden , […]
When Dr . Susan Mercado accompanied her adolescent son from the Philippines to Hawaii in late 2020, she noticed a vacancy for a food systems and resiliency director at the Hawaii Public Health Institute. A former undersecretary of the Philippine health department with decades of experience as a medical doctor and public health expert, she got the job. This April, […]
It might smell like a dead cane toad, but the blooming of what’s affectionately known as the “corpse flower” is so momentous, people are prepared to fly several hours in order to witness it. Key points: The Amorphophallus titanum is also known as the “corpse flower” because of its signature pungent smell in blossom A specimen in Cairns has bloomed […]
The time to order seeds is nigh. If you order early, you can ensure you’ll get what you want. Shutterstock/eurobanks Our 2023 garden, seed and supply catalogs arrived weeks ago, definitely before we were finished with our 2022 gardens. I tried to ignore the catalogs, yet when prodded (by my wife, Nancy), I looked at a few for ideas on […]
LA BRUYERE, Belgium — The Belgian “Garden of Santa Claus, ” which every year offers a free visit to Santa’s office, bedroom, train and sleigh, will be open only 23 days this year instead of the usual 34 days because associated with a surge in energy prices, its organizer said. The work of a Belgian aeronautical engineer, Serge Hennebel, 54, […]
“We talked about our Creek Nation seal and how we are an agrarian society and want to promote what our ancestors did. ” – Julie Norem TVLSE, Oklahoma – Gardening has many benefits. It is good for the environment and is a way to become self-sufficient in food cultivation. The Muscogee (Creek) Nation was originally an agrarian society that relied […]
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Local students visited the Harden Murrumburrah Community Garden at the beginning of the week. Spokesperson for the garden, Rita O’Connor said they had been expecting over 200 children joining them for a series of activities over Monday and Tuesday. “Well, we couldn’t have all the groups because of the rain this morning, but years 1 and 5 came, ” Ms […]
The full Home Grown magazine team gathered to celebrate the publication’s release on Thursday, Dec. 8. (Photo: Jackson Schroeder) Those who picked up the Dec. 8 edition of The Oglethorpe Echo newspaper found a new publication, Home Developed, slipped between the paper’s pages. Home Produced, which is also available online , is a product of Journalism lecturer Lori Johnston […]
If you’ve ever painted anything — furniture, kitchen cabinets, interior walls, or even a room or two — you know the challenges that accompany it. Painting can be messy and expensive. It can also be time-consuming and frustrating. But there is one thing it isn’t: an arduous task reserved solely for professionals who are paid handsomely to do it. […]