I am unsure of the variety of the strawberries. The were volunteer plants that sprouted from my parents compost. The issue with the berries was the privet tree nearby. Its berries/olives whatever the fruit is is allelopathic and...

and kale contain few bioavailable nutrients. The complex fibers are simply too difficult for your digestive system to break down unless you chew each bite 50 times. It’s not going to hurt you, but you’re not going to...

I’m doing mostly root vegetables — a couple of heirloom varieties of carrots and beets, parsnips, onions. Also cauliflower and a winter squash (mystery seedling from my sister’s compost bin) that’s already...

stuff tastes fine on it’s own....the indoor stuff tastes real funky sometimes, which is why people mix it into their drinks. Which is really not the best way to take it...it should be taken on an empty stomach on it’s...

amount of compost. Set up either a soaker hose or a drip tape system before you plant. When you do plant, give everybody lots of room – you’ll need it two years down the road when your rosemary is the size of a...

goes down the disposal. And, not just for mulch. For purity of area water system, too. Some environmentalists ask that no food stuff, even milk, goes into the sewer system > and use biodegradable soaps. Your choice, for now anyway.

using a modified free-range system whereby birds are raised on pasture but provided with shelters that can be moved by hand or tractor. Poultry is often moved daily. Chickens can get up to 20 percent of feed from pasture forage in...

Also, with carts you are limited to ordering from what the kitchen decides to bring out. With a menu system you can order whatever you want. BTW I am Chinese and I don’t care about the “authentic experience” of...

You’re very correct about the water. I have an under the counter 'reverse osmosis system' used specifically for my coffee makers/espresso machine. I wouldn’t waste my time or money without it.

on the compost heap, or otherwise applied to crops. Control of pests such as mice is accomplished by “ashing,” which requires capturing the pest, burning it, and scattering the ashes in the field....

indoors or transported to a garden. I can’t imagine this. How would you get those big knobby roots. Can the other parts of the ginger plant be used in cooking? One grow your own ginger link....

Do you guys have composting garbage bins there? Here in the city of San Francisco, we can put household grease in milk cartons (the paper ones, not plastic ones) and then freeze it and put it in our green trash bins, all of which...

There’s no comparison to the Union Sq Market other than the fact that they are part of the NYC Greenmarket system so they meet all the requirements just like the one at USQ. The one at Atlas Park is very small but what they...

I want to start growing herbs at home, for the first time. It’d have to be indoors. My Brooklyn apartment has a fire escape but there are plenty of squirrels and mice — maybe even rats — that might like to...

i hope no gets the wrong idea about this post NO YOU CAN’T USE CHARCOAL INDOORS the restaurants use heavy duty vent and exhaust systems not avail in your home while it is safe for them to use it in a comercial location it is...