Category: Organic Gardening
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Forget backyard farming, soil under your nails and playing the gardening guessing game. There’s a way to grow your own produce in the comfort of your home without the backache, without the endless war on pests, and without battling nature’s elements. Vertical hydroponic gardening is here. Consider it farming’s sleek, space-age sibling. And if you’re…
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Columbus St. Mary middle school students are digging into science, sustainability and stewardship with the launch of two new Flex Farm hydroponic gardens from Fork Farms. Thanks to the guidance of middle school science teacher Mrs. Katie Patti and the support of Mr. Hanson, students in grades 7 and 8 planted nearly 270 lettuce plants…
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Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. Picking, chopping, and grinding freshly grown herbs can quickly improve the taste of a pasta dish, enhance the appeal of vegetables, or even bring out the flavor of seared salmon. However, in many locations, you cannot grow herbs outdoors all year, so starting an…
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I started my growing season late this year. Life got in the way. By the time I was able to get stuck in, my veg patch was busily filling up with plants that had found their own way there. Now, I’m firmly in the camp of those who believe a weed is simply a plant that’s not…
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Homestead gardening makes rural communities more self-reliant in Rajshahi Homestead gardening boosts food security, incomes and sustainable livelihoods across Rajshahi’s drought-prone Barind tract region. Photo : BSS By Md Aynal Haque RAJSHAHI, Dec 20, 2025 (BSS) – Homestead gardening has been contributing significantly to making rural communities more self-reliant while enhancing overall food security in…
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Green-fingered schoolchildren have risen to the challenge of growing their own vegetables and selling them for profit. Year six pupils from Churchdown Village School, Gloucestershire, took part in a project to “grow £5”. Ten members of the school’s gardening club were given an initial budget of £5 to buy seeds to grow vegetables which were…
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Adam Maker, head chef at the A Bar in Old Portsmouth, said it was a proud moment for him when he contacted the school, which he attended as a child, to ask for some fruit and veg. “Too many kids are growing up on beige foods from the oven, from the air fryer, the freezer,…
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Pupils at the school in Hampshire have been growing plants in their allotment garden for the past 16 years – and all year groups get involved. School horticulturalist Louise Moreton explained: “Year two are growing onions, year five are growing garlic, but we also like to grow more unusual plants like lovage, caraway and bronze…
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If you find that, come autumn, you start feeling down because you’re already thinking about putting your garden to bed for the winter, and how much you’ll be missing all those just-picked veggies, then perhaps you need to start an indoor vegetable garden. While not all veggies can be easily grown inside, several will do…
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Vietnam’s urban consumers are growing more selective about what they feed their families, driving interest in clean vegetable subscription boxes and remote farming services. PwC reports that most Vietnamese shoppers worry about ultra-processed foods and pesticides, and many are willing to pay…