Culinary Herbs for The Garden
Herbs are food, medicine, history and always, beautiful. It’s no wonder they’ve endeared themselves to humanity these many generations; we can’t help but keep them around.
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How to Grow Big Sweet Potatoes: Soil, Spacing, and Yield Tips
Learning how to grow sweet potatoes successfully comes down to understanding how sweet potatoes grow. This crop is in the morning glory family - a vining, often tenacious plant, that...
Succession Planting for Extended Harvest
Succession planting involves planning your garden to keep the space productive throughout the growing season.
Eating from the Spring Garden
For many who love the bountiful green vegetables of spring, this season is eagerly anticipated after a winter of soups and stews. It’s great to grow a bang up crop...
Transplants Made Easy: A Guide to Growing Your Own Starts
The ins and outs of starting seeds at home and getting your garden off to the best start(s).
Recipes from the Harvest: Latkes
I’m happy to announce that Latke season is here! To make the most of what we have, we try to delay our use of our stored vegetables each fall until...
World Food Day & Seed Freedom
Like millions of people around the world, Sow True Seed is firmly against using GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) in seed.
Fall Through Winter Gardens
After battling weeds and garden pests all summer, a fall-winter garden can be a delightful reprieve from those garden stressors, and fill your veggie basket or crock pot full of...
Okra: Much More than Gumbo
Okra, Abelmoschus esculentus, is a traditional southern food with roots in northeast Africa.
Growing A Thriving Garden in Western North Carolina
Growing in Western North Carolina can be a lesson in patience and perseverance.
Occupy the Food Supply Today!
Today is the Occupy the Food Supply day of action. This is a global, DIY event meant to draw attention to the growing corporate control of our food.
5 Ways to Protect Farmers from Monsanto
On Tuesday, January 31st Manhattan Federal Court Judge Naomi Buchwald will decide if organic farmers can protect themselves against GMO pusher Monsanto.
Garden Blogs for Winter Reading: The Local Edition
To feed your winter garden dreams there is a growing bounty of garden related blogs out there.
10 New Year's Resolutions for the Garden
It’s the time for looking back and looking forward, the threshold of a new year. Gardening is an exercise in optimism, especially in the winter when everything is still possible.
Garden Blogs for Winter Reading
The holidays are upon us. The weather has been glorious in WNC but it won’t last. We’re heading in to the cold, quiet time of gardening.
Tips for Your Winter Vegetable Garden
There are four basic ways to eat from your garden throughout the winter: Plant hardy plants, choose “good-keeper” variety vegetables for the summer/fall garden and store them correctly, preserve your produce,...