Volunteer Angst

The more experience I have as a gardener, the more ruthless I become about certain things, like pulling out plants that don’t perform well, cleaning out crops that have started to bolt in time to get another planting in of something else, and I’m even...

Book Giveaway: The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm

I don’t know the exact moment when I began to question, well, not everything, but a lot about what we buy and put in or on our bodies. It may have its earliest beginnings way back, before some of you readers can remember, to the Tylenol debacle. For those of you...

More City Chickens

As we remarked in, I think chapter one of our book, the town of Mouscron, Belgium, adopted a chicken solution to their household waste problem. It’s happened again, this time in France. Officials in the town of Pince, population 200, a village in northwestern...

Peas, If You Please

The edible cover crop I planted last winter has exceeded expectations in terms of . . . AAAAGH!!! WE’RE COVERED IN PEAS!!! Peas, peas, and yes, peas. Fava beans, biomaster peas, yellow peas, and sugar snap peas. Is there such a thing as a 150% germination rate?...