YouTube: Perennial Crops for Your Self-Reliance Garden

Our latest YouTube video explores perennial crops that fill in the gaps in your garden year after year. Perennial crops offer durability and consistency amid the cycle of annual, seasonal crops.  No self-reliance garden should be without them.

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03-05-20 Bring On Spring

In this issue: March in the GardenNifty Seeds for SpringGardenerd Tip of the Month: Stinging Nettle SoupGardenerd Product of the Month: Gardening for Geeks 2020 & TomatoMania! March in the…

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09-26-19 Fall Has Arrived

In this issue: September in the GardenUpcoming ClassesGardenerd Tip of the Month: Fall Planting GuideGardenerd Product of the Month: 400+ Tips for Organic Gardening Success September in the Garden Fall…

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Podcast: Microgreens and Ponics with Nate Looney

Our latest guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Nate Looney, owner of Westside Urban Gardens. Nate is business-savvy army veteran who offers consultation services for controlled environment growing operations (read: hydroponics and aquaponics).

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Field Trip: Alan Chadwick Garden

You can’t go to Santa Cruz, CA, without stopping by the Alan Chadwick Garden on campus at UC Santa Cruz. The 3-acre garden is where Chadwick’s philosophies became reality.

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Wordless Wednesday: New Life

Easter, Passover, and Earth Day all came together this year to celebrate new life. The garden bursts forth with sprouts, flowers, and the promise of an abundant harvest.

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