John Forti is an award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist, garden writer, and local foods advocate. He is...

In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Cassandra Quave believes our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our...

Emily Murphy is an ecological gardener, an educator, and an author whose two books focus on gardens of personal and communal purpose. Her...

Plantlife International is a British conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants,...

In this first month of the new year, I once again offer out the hope of Vivien Sansour's work and the hope of seeds – to bind us more...

As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes daily, filling our notebooks and dreams, we take a behind the scenes...

To welcome the new year, we stay with the theme of seeds – this time focusing on seeding our imaginations in conversation with Diane...

As a farewell to the calendar year that has been, and a welcome to the year that will be, I am joined this week by seedperson and agent...

Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan brother based in Patagonia,...

This week I am thankful for good food, and the many souls who grow it for us all year long – around the world, really, but This week we...

This week we explore some farmer and seasonal food connections with Chef Dave Smoke McCluskey, founder of Corn Mafia, and grower/producer...

As we enter the season of seed saving, of easing into dormancy and beginning to consider next season, forward planning, this week we...

In our final episode focusing on gardens that are dedicated to being ecologically rich and contributing back to the places in which they...

Many gardeners will remember with delight reading Gaia’s Garden by author and activist Toby Hemenway, originally published in 2001. Toby...

Amyrose Foll is a mother, a farmer, a business woman, of Native American Abenaki and Penobscot descent, an Army veteran - and a big...

Come March, winter is starting to feel long in many portions of the northern hemisphere, enter gardeners, the spring and summer vegetable...

In honor of the losses, loves, griefs, gains, revisions, and transformations in our world this last year, and in honor of the hopes we...

In honor of the Solstice on December 21st and the important pivot in seasonal time that it represents, rest, dark, and dormancy in the...

On her email signature line, the irrepressibly optimistic and enthusiastic Patty Spence has this quote: “If not us, then who? If not now,...

Last week we were in the herbs, this week we move to the rest of the food pantry and I mean the rest – from peanuts to beans and rice,...