Container Gardening for Beginners: Fun Ideas for Gardening in Small Spaces

With more and more families growing their own food, you may be wishing that you had some land so that you could join the trend. But, believe it or not, even a city dweller can create a thriving edible garden for and with the family — regardless of limited space or patio size! Sure, a little creativi

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Growing Your Own Food: Tips for Planning Your Edible Garden

When most people think about growing their own food, they picture a raised-bed vegetable garden in the back or side yard of a suburban home. But believe it or not, an edible family garden can go beyond the backyard. Edibles can be grown as trees and shrubs, or be part of an herbaceous landscape that

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Getting Started in the Garden: Tips for Planning Your First Vegetable Garden

So, you're committed to finally starting that vegetable garden, hey? Good for you! You'll soon discover there are few activities as relaxing and rewarding as gardening. If you're an urban farming freshman starting off at square one, you may feel a bit overwhelmed; and a trip to your local garden or

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7 Best Strength Exercises for Gardeners

Gardening Can Be Remarkably Physical! Over President's Day Weekend, I converted some lawn area into a wide swath of planting beds. In the process I shoveled, raked, pushed 200-pound-filled wheelbarrows around the yard, bent over to grab building materials, squatted down to grab rocks, swung a matto

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Gardening Fun: The 5 Best Vegetables to Grow with Kids

I've been growing vegetables with my children (now ages 8 and 18 months) since before the oldest could walk, and I've found there are a lot of rewards when you get your kids involved in the garden. My daughter will eat her weight in raw sugar snap peas or red peppers in season, and my son can't get

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Activities for Kids: How to Make a Mason Bee Paper Tube

Getting Started To make your own mason bee paper tube, you'll want to use recyclable 8 1/2" x 11" paper that is clean on one side. Cut the paper in half so that you have two sheets, measuring out at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Other supplies needed: liquid, non-toxic white glue, a 5/16th " dowel, a damp rag

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Keeping Mason Bees: 10 Expert Beekeeping Tips for Families

In recent years, concerns have mounted over the environmental impacts of pollinator decline, giving rise to focused conservation efforts by average families to protect, enhance, and foster agricultural pollination through beekeeping. Keeping native non-stinging mason bees — even in urban spaces — i

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10 Tips for Involving Kids with Urban Chickens

Thinking about keeping chickens in the city? So are many other families! Raising urban chickens will not only provide your family with nutritious farm-fresh eggs on a regular basis, but it can also be a great hands-on learning experience for your little farmers. Listed below are some of our favorite

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