The Different Types of Carrots, Explained for Home Gardeners
Love carrots but not sure how to pick the best variety for your garden? Here’s a guide to the different types of carrots and what sets each apart from the...
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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...
10 Types of Lettuce & Salad Greens and How to Grow Them
A fresh salad straight out of the garden is one of the first joys of the spring season that gardeners can look forward to each year. Most greens are quick...
Field Notes: The Utopian Seed Project
The main focus of The Utopian Seed Project, the nonprofit that Chris founded and runs, is research on Southern heirloom crops and tropical perennials that could be adapted for Southern...
5 Things You Should Do to Increase Veggie Yields
Planting a vegetable garden is something all of us can be doing to help boost our health, and help lower our collective carbon footprint. Even if all you have time...
Attract Frogs & Toads to Your Garden for Natural Pest Control
Just like us, all animals and insects need food, shelter, and water. You get bonus points if you also put some thought into how and where your little friends will...
Growing Community Series: Sand Hill Community Garden
Over 30 seasonal volunteers share in fresh produce harvested. Donated produce goes to over 300 community members between the locations that Sand Hill Community Garden donates to.
Growing Community Series - Weaverville Primary School
Each year we have approximately 20 children in a class. We send things home to the families as well, so I would say that around 80 people a year benefit...
Growing Community Series - Root Cause Farm
Some basic tips include to make sure you have at least 7 hours of full-sun, that you are near a water source, that you have some flat areas or a...
Shirley Sherrod: Co-founder of New Communities
New Communities was a farm where everyone would share stewardship of the land. It was to have an independent education system, healthcare system, and housing, strongly rooted in community and...
Emma Dupree, Folk Herbalist & Granny Woman
A true community herbalist, Ms. Dupree didn’t set a price for her services. Sometimes she would get $5, sometimes $30, and she was happy to accept trades of ingredients she...
Fannie Lou Hamer: Visionary Farming Model Creator
Fannie Lou Hamer has left us a clear and usable model for cooperative farming, and her lifetime of justice work and public service should be a beacon and inspiration to...
George Washington Carver, the Father of Sustainable Agriculture
As the first Black man to earn a graduate degree in agriculture in the U.S. (and the first black student at Iowa State), Carver was offered many teaching positions upon...
The Godfather of CSA, Dr. Booker T. Whatley
“If you can’t or won’t observe the basic laws of horticulture, then forget it. Either do it right, or don’t do it at all, because the results just won’t be...
Growing Community Series - Pinehurst Farmers Market
Inspired by legendary farmer Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm located in Upstate New York at a BUGS (Black Urban Garden Society conference in Atlanta, Georgia) to be the change...
Annuals, Perennials, & Biennials: A Definition Guide
Knowing what the life cycle of the plant you want to put in your garden is critical for garden planting. Putting perennials in the middle of your annual vegetable beds...
Seed Saver's Glossary
Where are you on your seed saving journey? We feel like the key to success and sticking with it is to keep it manageable, and make sure you are having...