Our Community Garden Stories
High Arch Wheel Hoe
High Arch Wheel Hoe for Hilling Corn and Potatoes Cultivating the soil with a high arch wheel hoe for growing corn and potatoes is a delight. Gardeners and small-scale farmers using hand tools love this style of wheel hoe. It excels at weeding and cultivating early...
Garden Hoe with Wheels
What is a Garden Hoe with Wheels? The traditional garden hoe or even the specialized hula hoe are staples in any garden shed. However, the garden hoe with wheels allows the gardener to cover large rows and quickly cultivate garden beds. The best wheel hoe for your...
Cheap Duck Coop Ideas
Looking for Cheap Duck Coop Ideas? Ducks don't need much to be happy with their home. Hence cheap duck coop ideas are often the way to go for urban homesteaders raising animals on a budget. A proper duck house can be made from countless free materials or recycled...
Chop and Drop in a Food Forest
The chop and drop technique in a food forest is a proven permaculture strategy for building a rich soil microbiome. Chop and drop is simply the concept of trimming plants and placing the cuttings on the ground to rot and compost in place. The most important element...
5 Ways to Use Wood Chips in a Garden
Top 5 Reasons to Use Wood Chips in a Garden These are the top 5 reasons we use wood chips in a garden. There are many more wonderful ways to use a load of wood chips. While you can buy wood chips, free wood chips are available from arborists if you can find one in...
Garden Design Basics for Urban Homesteads
A few garden design basics to think about for the urban homesteader to think about it is what type of garden you want. Do you want a food forest with plants intermingled and guilds of dozens of plants together? Or do you want to have a small-scale farm that is easy...
How to Build an In-Ground Hugelkultur Garden Bed
How to Build an In-Ground Hugelkultur Garden Bed Building an in-ground hugelkultur garden bed is an interesting garden method for developing very productive gardens. A hugelkultur bed is simply a variety of materials including wood, leafy material, straw, animal...
Building Raised Garden Beds with Wood
Building Wood Raised Garden Beds Building wood-raised garden beds is a very popular method of backyard gardening. Accordingly, there are many different ways to go about creating an above-ground garden bed. Raised garden beds have a very nice look and appeal to...
Starting Plants from Seed
Starting a Garden from Seed Starting plants from seed is the most economical way to grow a garden. Buying plants from a nursery that are ready to be directly planted into your garden beds may save time or be good for a first-time gardener. However, if the goal is to...
Soil Amendments
Soil Amendments Soil amendments enhance the productivity of the native soil. There are a large number of different soil amendments available to adjust the nutrient and mineral levels in your gardens and food forest. However, before you start adding tons of different...
Harvesting Snow Peas & Broccoli at the Community Garden
Today we harvested the first round of snow peas and some of the broccoli that we planted earlier this year in our community garden plot. We love planting late winter crops such as these and getting to enjoy the harvest in early spring. We have sugar snap peas, Oregon...
Florida Weave for Tomatoes in Community Garden Plot
We use the Florida weave for our sauce tomatoes growing in the community garden plot. This is a great way to trellis indeterminate tomatoes. Together with T posts or wooden stakes, you wrap the string around all of the tomatoes. By weaving the twine around the plants...
Harvesting Brussel Sprouts & Carrots
A quick trip to the community garden on Thanksgiving morninig to harvest brussel sprouts and carrots for our dinner later today.
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