Food Is Medicine: 101 Prescriptions from the Garden By Kathleen Barnes There is a certain romance to growing your own food. Whether it comes from a solitary basil plant on a window ledge, a potted tomato on an urban balcony, a small plot in a community garden or a well-manicured full-scale spread, we humans take … Read more
If you’re anything like me, you spend some of these cold, blustery winter evenings leafing through a stack of garden catalogs, dreaming of the gardens to come. While we have a lot of space, I know my gardening dreams becomes a bit larger than my energy levels and by mid-summer and I am sending barbs … Read more
by Kathleen Barnes “Bee friendly” plants pre-treated with pesticides that actually harm or kill bees have been found in garden shops of Lowe’s, Home Depot and other big box stores. An estimated 50,000 dying and dead honeybees were found in the parking lot of a Target store in Wilsonville, OR after Safari, a neonicotinoid pesticide, … Read more
As I prepare to put in my garden this year, I feel a little like some whacko-zombie apocalypse fanatic. I am on a fervent mission to find non-GMO seeds and plants. It’s not as easy as you might think since Monsanto, the father of Frankenfoods and RoundUp (what a pair!) has not only managed to … Read more