There's "Mozart for the Morning Commute," "Mozart for Your Mind," -- and now Mozart for your manure? A sewage plant near Berlin is playing Mozart to its biomass-eating microbes. Will it make them work harder or just entertain them? more>>
The biggest horticultural hoax is the need for a drain hole in a plant pot. Is there a hole in this argument? more>>
Hell strip, street strip, strip between sidewalk and street. Whatever you call it, it can be planted with elephant-stomp-resistant plants of considerable function and beauty. Whether it's legal or not is a whole different quesiont.. more>>
Can global warming be halted and reversed by the use of bio-char/black earth/terra-preta -- the secret soil additive of the ancient Amazonian civilizations? Maybe. But first you have to stop people from using it as cooking fuel... more>>
Upside-down planters is all the rage these days for some varieties of tomatoes, but they dry out really fast. And experiments with other vegetables have had mixed results. So is it finally time for these gardeners to come back down to earth? more>>
Some people can speak Permaculture fluently, but introduce them to a nice, sexy plot of raw land and all they can do is mumble. It'd be nice if there were a step-by-step plan, wouldn't it be? more>>
Robert Paarlberg, whose article "Attention Whole Foods Shoppers" in Foreign Policy, which denigrates sustainable agriculture, should be praised for having the courage to so publicly demonstrate that he has no clue... more>>
The Great American Chestnut Blight killed an estimated 4 billion trees. Now, finally, we are closing in on a fully blight-resistant strain to repopulate the US with Chestnut trees. Want one? more>>
Food, Not Lawns! is becoming the mantra of the decade. But moss, too, while not the tastiest greenery, offers some distinct advantages over grass... more>>
You know that old kiddie pool in storage that the kids have long since outgrown? Well congratulations, that's your new rooftop garden... more>>
The poor man's swale? A row of straw bales or even mulch grass does just fine, thank you, says Australia's Garden Len... more>>
Everyone knows that the best way to seal a new pond so it's water-tight is to run pigs through it. But the next best? How about a bucket of mud from the Seminoles of Oklahoma... more>>
When animals nibble on bark for so long that trees start to look like standing dead, Sepp Holzer cooks up some of his special 'bone sauce' that keeps them off the bark... forever! more>>
To Native Americans, "the three sisters" had nothing to do with Chekhov. It was all about planting in "guilds," such that each plant benefits the others, and the Natives did it right... more>>
Cornell's 'Prince Hairy'(sic) potato was a real pauper to commercial producers. But these early, tasty, pest and disease resistant potatoes were true royalty for organic gardeners. And now, the next variety from the House of Cornell,'King Harry,' is even better... more>>
No one likes to be stepped on. But how about plants? Well in fact, for these varieties, stomping is just a therapeutic massage... more>>
Candy is dandy and liquor is quicker. But now that they've found chocolate-flavored plants with chocolate-flavored berries to grow in your backyard, there might be a new route to a woman's heart... more>>
Why bother with a soil sample if you want to know what plants will grow in your garden? Just study the weeds... more>>
From 'trailer trash' to mobile home garden design. Well, as Bill Mollison says, "the problem is the solution." more>>
Climate Change? "Never in peacetime history has the government-media-academic complex been in such sustained propagandistic lockstep about any subject." more>>
Solar voltaic curtains? Container food forest? Hang-out-the-window solar panels? Tower block heaven from tower block hell. Apartment balcony permaculture... more>>
In the 1920s people freely ate butter, eggs, and cream. Then came the new vocabulary word, "cholesterol" and all hell broke loose... more>>
What do the world's most long-lived and prosperous peoples have in common? For one, a lack of big box stores and fast food joints. The others? more>>
Think the BP oil rig disaster is a big deal? Hah! In the desert in Turkmenistan there's a hole 328 ft. wide that's been on fire for 38 years. Just one of 11 bizarre man-made disasters... more>>
"We certainly could never afford to have the lawn cut for us, and with the cost of gas, plus the minimum of 96 hours in labor... we were looking for an alternative." How about a lawnmower that goes baaaaah! more>>
City folk who watch TV have absolutely no idea how to eat. If only they would turn off the set and listen to country folk who don't live five minutes from a Walmart... more>>
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