05-06-09 The Garden is Alive

5-06-09 The Garden is Alive In This Issue: May in the Garden Composting Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Beneficial Insectaries Product of the Month: SALE! Ultimate Garden Bag 1. May…

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05-10-06 Mother’s Day and Venice

5-10-06 Mother's Day and Venice In This Issue: From Venice to Venice The Stork is coming Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Grow Organic 1. From Venice to Venice In lieu…

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Latest News

PressPress Releases Gardenerd News & Calendar Christy celebrated National Gardenerd Day on April 14, 2021 by sharing gardening tips on KTLA News. Watch the 4.5 minute segment here. Check out…

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About Us

Contact Us Yvette Roman Photography Mission StatementGardenerd is designed for people who have a healthy sense of humor about their obsession with organic gardening, and who have a thirst for…

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Services – Speaking

Christy is an enthusiastic garden speaker, teacher, and heirloom evangelist. She is available to wax rhapsodic about organic gardening on a number of topics at your garden club, next conference,…

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Do You Bokashi? – Part 1

I’m delighted to present a guest post from Mark Rainville, one of my fellow gardeners at Ocean View Farms, who has been experimenting with E.M.
Bokashi over the last year. This is the first installment to get you started down the fabulous road to fermented tea as fertilizer / soil conditioner. Take it away, Mark:

With all of the home composting options available, the bokashi food scrap fermentation system is one of the easiest and can be the

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Dream Center Garden Progress

In September 2009, I started working on a project for the Dream Center in
downtown Los Angeles. It’s been a long road, gathering grant money and donated supplies, but the Dream Garden is shaping up to be a fine reality for the residents of the Dream Center.

Today a team of about 15 people planted the first batch of transplants into the garden. The excitement was palpable as we placed plants in each bed, according to a diagram I made …

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