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Raised beds with drip irrigation are the easiest way to grow your own vegetables. In our new video on raised beds, Tricia shows you how to create a raised bed in minutes, using M Brace, Minifarmbox, or…
Pretty in the garden, pretty on your table—use edible flowers to make your meals sparkle! Garden author Teresa O’Connor was a featured speaker about Edible Flowers at the Mother Earth News…
You’re ready to plant a fruit tree—but how do you decide on the best pruning and training system? We’ve got easy answers for you. The University of California says pruning and training…
Reward someone who gardens hard all summer long—help them preserve the harvest with this water-bath canner bursting with canning tools, jars, and a starter book. You might get some jam in return.…
Introduce a tomato gardener to the joys of cool-season growing. The pouch of our Roo gardening apron has seeds for garlic, shallots, potatoes, and vegetables—and a how-to book from the man who gardens…
Spice up any cook’s life with this stainless colander that also works as a harvest basket. Toss in seeds for herbs and edible flowers, mix the latest garden-to-table cookbooks and kitchen gadgets—and…
You can see it all now—it’s a sunny day and you’re sitting at a wooden table in your olive grove, eating olives and crusty bread, and drinking wine with your friends and family. You grew…
For your family and friends with backyard chickens, we have a hen party in an egg-gathering basket! Choose any or all of these poultry products: Nutritious, orange egg yolks begin with our famous Omega-3…
Top-of-the-line orchard tools, books, and organic sprays spill out of our Professional Picking Bag. An experienced orchardist will appreciate the high quality of all these tools and sprays. The books are…
Green gifts for the kids in your life! It’s true. Kids will eat veggies they grow themselves. Help children make magic in the garden with organic seed collections, kid-sized tools and gloves, fun…
USDA Zone 7 is typically considered too cold for olive trees. But we’re gardeners, which means we want to grow beautiful trees that aren’t recommended for our zones. That goes both ways too—for…
Green gifts for the rose and flower lover in your life! What’s new with roses? Alfalfa tea! Give the fertilizing secret of the blue-ribbon winners to your rose friends, along with specialty gloves…
Helpful advice from one of our organic farmer friends about how to grow tomatoes under greenhouse plastic. This originally appeared on our Freshman Farmer blog when Eddie was starting out as an organic…
Our Thanksgiving Sale is over—but please subscribe to our weekly e-newsletter to receive exclusive discounts every week of the year! Subscribe in the upper right corner of this page. You’ll…
1. Grown without synthetic pesticides Conventional seeds are from plants that grew in the fields even longer than food crops—and were likely to get even more synthetic pesticides and fungicides to…
Whether you’re planning your first vegetable garden or your twentieth, we have information to help you! Our in-house videos and articles bring you research-based information about growing our non-GMO,…
Make a succulent wreath or succulent ball for holidays and celebrations any month of the year Now that the rain and snow have arrived, it’s “stuck indoors” time for many gardeners. You…
Don’t leave your garden yet! Late fall and early winter is the time to plant some easy edibles, and scatter the sweeps of wildflowers that will be a delight come spring and summer. Tricia has winter…
Our gardens can shift so quickly from warm, late summer to chilly, rainy fall. To help you avoid the “oops, I forgot to ________” that afflicts all gardeners, here’s a checklist of garden…
Just a few steps will take you to your very own homemade goat cheese! Tricia milks goats and shows you how to prepare homemade goat cheese in our new video. Tricia milked Aurora and then they went for…
Everyone tells you to mulch your vegetable garden—but exactly how should you choose a mulch? In…
Most cover crops are planted in late summer, but there are some cover crop seed mixes that can go in…
