Garden gifts for Green Gift Monday

“Last year on Cyber Monday consumers spent nearly $890 million dollars online. Imagine the difference we could make if just a fraction of that money was spent on responsible, meaningful holiday gifts.” – Nature Conservancy, 2010.

Gifts are one of the best ways we know to show people we care.  Some people shop early [...]

Are we secretly scared of nature?

McDowell Sonoran Preserve by Dru Bloomfield

Nature, red in tooth and claw. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

I’m driving down Metcalf Avenue. A sign catches my attention:

Deer Creek Preserve.

Ah, nature! Perhaps I should stop off to enjoy it.

Nature names no nature

Don’t let names  fool you -

South Creek, Fieldstone, Shadow Brook, Tallgrass Creek, Forest Creek, Heatherwood, Silver [...]

12 Ways to Get Your Greens

Greens in My Garden 04/10

Are you growing your own green vegetables? What about meeting the challenge of eating your daily quota?

Most of us don’t grow enough for 100% of our vegetable needs. We simply don’t have the garden capacity or know how (yet). Eating locally grown vegetables, no matter the source, can inspire [...]

Celebrate Earth Day in Your Garden

Birth Tree by woodleywonderworks

With today being the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, it seems appropriate for all of us Earthlings to celebrate Earth Day right where we’re at, in our gardens.

Do you already have Earth Day plans? Let’s think on this together a little. Let me know your thoughts too. I’d like to hear [...]

Kansas City Gardening for Africa

Grant and Paige Shadden – 2005

Grant and Paige Shadden are a sweet, young Kansas City couple who want to grow their own, healthy vegetables, in their own back yard. It sounds unremarkable.

But Grant and Paige know the value and power of organic vegetable gardening and they are doing something unusual. They are gardening in [...]