How to Make a Pallet Garden
With spring amongst us, I, like most of you, am excited to tackle a few new gardening projects. After searching the web for innovative ideas, I came across a nifty one that makes use of a simple pallet. My husband and his family operate bulk oil and gas companies in our local and have an abundance of these useful objects. This has no doubt onset my slight obsession with pallet recycling. If you need help sourcing a pallet, check out a similar establishment in your area or a grocery/gardening store.
How to Turn a Pallet into a Garden
Good news and bad news. I had planned to film a short video showing you how to make a pallet garden, but the weather didn’t cooperate. I was stapling the landscape fabric onto the pallet when it started drizzling and got really windy.
Vertical Pallet Garden Plan - Gardening
Use these step-by-step instructions and build your own vertical pallet garden, perfect for growing your own food in small spaces. By Niki Jabbour Groundbreaking Food Gardens (Storey Publishing, 2014) by Niki Jabbour is a stellar collection of unique food garden plans from some of the best gardeners and designers in North America. Choose from 73 plans, each with its own theme and detailed illustration. In this excerpt, learn how to construct a kitchen garden from used pallets that won’t take up much space. You can purchase this book from the Mother Earth Living store: Groundbreaking Food Gardens.
Build a Food Storage Shelf
Preparation Instructions: Fill all holes with wood filler and let dry. Apply additional coats of wood filler as needed.
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How to Host an Urban-Ag Forum
Give urban farming and local food a chance to thrive in your city by inviting election candidates to hash out their stances on the subject. By Lisa Munniksma In Minneapolis' 2013 mayoral race, 35 candidates had their hats in the ring. Unlike most U.S. towns, Minneapolis used a ranked-choice voting system, where each person votes for his top candidates rather than voting for one candidate out of a select few that made it to the ballot from particular political parties. It's simply not possible to learn what you need to know about each candidate's take on issues important to you—transportation, housing issues, environmental issues—individually, so various groups hold candidate forums, including a forum for urban farming and local food. Minneapolis isn't the only city to have done this, but they join the ranks of just a few—San Francisco and New York among them.
UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Only...
Nick Meyer | AltHealthWORKS Even as the United States government continues to push for the use of more chemically-intensive and corporate-dominated farming methods such as GMOs and monoculture-based crops, the United Nations is once against sounding the alarm about the urgent need to return to (and develop) a more sustainable, natural and organic system. That was the key point of a new publication from the UN Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) titled“Trade and Environment Review 2013: Wake Up Before It’s Too Late,” which included contributions from more than 60 experts around the world.
19 Creative Ways to Plant a Vertical Garden - How To Make a Vertical Garden
Composed of a breathable, recycled material akin to felt, these pouches — sold individually and in rows of three or five — can last 20 years. Metal grommets make them easy to attach to a wall with screws. (From $40; woollypocket.com) Plant Them With: The standard 15" x 24" pockets, which hold up to 20 pounds of soil apiece, accommodate most annuals, plus small edibles and perennials. In this photo, carex grasses, colorful coleus, trailing petunias, and more flourish along the side of a barn. So how do you water these things, anyway?
UF News: Oh, So That’s Why We’re Doing This!
By Rachael Brugger Thursday, May 7, 2015 For all those people who told you urban farming isn’t "real” farming or said your operation was too small to make a difference or earn an income, you now have something to fight back with. Nearly a fifth of the world’s food come from city farms, and more than 800 million people are growing it, Elizabeth Royte writes in article recently run on Ensia. Take that, Mr. Neighbor who mows over your front-yard bed of lettuce and files noise complaints about your backyard flock!
4 Tips to Farm In the City When Land’s Too Pricey
So you can’t afford your farm dream quite yet. Don’t despair—there’s a lot of growing to do right where you are. By Nick Strauss Do you sit at your office cubicle and dream of driving a tractor across acres of your own farmland? Even just a small tractor and an acre or two—enough to live self-sufficiently or work the farmers market scene? Do you then return home to an urban lot, squashed in between other urban lots, and despair that you’ll never escape, never save enough, never find the right plot of land?
Infographic: Mulch for Your Vegetable Garden
Mulch. While it might seem like a garden afterthought, eliciting images of fresh woodchips applied to blossoming flower beds, it plays a critical role in edible gardens and farm plots. Mulching is done in fruit and vegetable production for a number of reasons. You can use it to stamp out unwanted weeds and promote healthy crop growth.
Strategies For Lettuce Success
2. Sow lettuce seeds ¼-inch deep in rows spaced 12 to 18 inches apart. Thick seeding (about a tablespoon of seeds per 10-foot row) results in plenty of thinnings to eat as the lettuces grow. Keep the soil moist until the seeds germinate. 3.
