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  • Green Chic Gardening with Britton Neubacher
    A beautiful dome by Tend Living. Meet my friend Britton Neubacher, founder of green-chic company Tend Living. Brit creates sustainable living sculptures that make you think twice about gardening, like the one above. What started as a small San Diego project has now transformed home and work spaces all over Southern California to reflect the native landscape in completely...
    by Christine Dionese L.Ac at May 18th, 2010 at 09:05 am
  • 4 Reasons to Love Weeds
    Orna Izakson. Back in the late ’90s and early aughts, a small but information-dense ’zine circulated in the Eugene, Oregon area called “Weed Lover.” The premise was that weeds offend gardeners by growing where they’re not wanted, but that they nevertheless offer great value by way of food, medicine and pulling nutrients up from the subsoil to feed neighboring...
    by Dr. Orna Izakson at May 11th, 2010 at 09:05 am
  • Herb and Garden Book Round-Up
    At the end of a talk I gave the other day about gardening with medicinal plants, a lovely woman asked me if I could only have one herb book after the apocalypse/revolution/peak oil disaster etc., which book would it be? Book geek that I am, I couldn’t pick just one. I cheated by recommending the new two-volume set, Earthwise Herbal, by Minnesota herbalist Matthew...
    by Dr. Orna Izakson at February 25th, 2010 at 09:02 am
  • Cooking and Healing with Thyme
    A long spell of deep cold knocked back the last of my greens and there’s a fairly even layer of deciduous leaves covering the ground, punctuated by bare limbs and decomposing stalks. My garden is pretty much hibernating. But one of the bright points this time of year is my thyme, which looks sprightly despite the January gloom. Herbalists like to play around with lists....
    by Dr. Orna Izakson at January 7th, 2010 at 05:01 am
  • 6 Great Reasons to Start a Garden
    My favorite seed catalog came in today’s mail: organic Floriani red flint corn, green meat radish, Bolivian rainbow pepper, purple pac choy, ruby streaks mustard. These are the reasons I started gardening–I was awed by the incredible diversity of life I could sustain on my little corner of earth. There were other reasons too. After my urban upbringing, I longed...
    by Dr. Orna Izakson at December 17th, 2009 at 05:12 am