New Year’s Resolution Garden

The holiday season is about ready to wrap up with the new year just a couple of days away. Last New Year’s we posted the Resolution Garden. Did you take part? Were you able to follow through? Well if not, it’s a whole other year and time for a new resolution to start planning that spring garden.  If you followed through on this past year’s resolution, then it is time to look at your garden journal and see what tweeks you can make to bring in an even greater bounty of fresh produce.

For those of you whom follow through on last year’s resolution garden, let us know what you did to bring in a successful garden.

Is the 2010 Home Garden Vegetable Seed Shortage Real or Myth?

2009 was one of the worst growing seasons in the U.S. and Europe in nearly 50 years. Soggy and cooler weather were devasting to home gardeners. This resulted in less seed being produced for this year’s gardening season. That’s a fact. However, will we see a true shortage in home garden vegetable seeds this year?

Lowering Grocery Bill and Buying Organic

One of the reasons that I garden is to have the healthiest organic foods available for my children and myself. This is in hopes that I am around longer for them without being a health burden to them when they become adults. However, here in the Northwest as with other northern states, we have a relatively short growing season. Although we preserve the excess summer harvests and grow herbs and vegetables indoors during the winter months, we do need to purchase more groceries throughout the winter. Like most households, we too feel the effects of the recession and higher food costs which leads us to employ strategies that we didn’t use before.

Recession Brings Americans Back To Basics – The Home Vegetable Garden Returns

By now you’ve probably heard of Elkhart, Indiana – the hardest hit city in this deep recession. Apparently, it has only one industry, the RV industry. If you are like me, what you did not know is that 53 percent of Amish men in the area under age 65 worked in these RV factories. When I think of the Amish community, I picture a community that, by choice, farms their land and shuns the modern day work force and its influence. However, this isn’t always the case anymore.