by Samantha Schuller
If you’ve been grumping and muttering under your breath all summer at your unproductive melon vines, short tomato season, and stunted peppers, now is the time to start gloating about our Pacific weather. We here in the Northwest are blessed—that’s right, blessed—with usually mild winters, which means that we get a growable winter
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by Grow Northwest
A beautiful evergreen wreath is one of the most popular holiday decorations. Look around each season and you find them hanging from doors, fences, barns and even vehicles. Adorned with ribbons, bows, cones, holly or other decorations, an evergreen wreath makes a beautiful, simple decoration, and one that is easy to make.
The use
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by Chris Elder
People have been constructing earth ovens for thousands of years. The process for building these ovens, also called hornos, has remained unchanged, except we presently have a few more tools at our disposal.
The most abundant and most commonly used building material on earth IS earth. Clay is the key ingredient for that mixture
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by Stephanie Ashton
Rain barrel technology couldn’t be any simpler, yet the results are astounding. Offering a happy triple-whammy of water conservation, a savings in your water bill, and a reduction in the storm water runoff that causes erosion and carries pollutants to our waterways, crafting a barrel takes little effort and little upkeep. Because barrels
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by Adam Bates
Finally, spring has sprung. Or at least it’s trying to. With the growing season upon us, it’s time once again to plan out and plant our gardens. But if last year’s crop of fruits and veggies was less than spectacular, or if you are simply looking to improve upon your success, raised bed
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by Claire Davis
Simplify. Its definition is “to make less complex or complicated.” A lot of people are feeling the need to do this these days, to simplify, but it seems some people just don’t know where to start. Some people are using applications via their phones and computers to try and “simplify” – such as
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by Marnie Jones
It’s not uncommon to look at a hot cup of tea as just a modest soother of the winter sniffles; something to sip to relieve a sore throat, to calm a cough, or to warm the bones. To Linda Quintana, owner of Wonderland Tea and Spice, herbal teas are recognized as offering much
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by Grow Northwest
For many people, pumpkin pie is a definite dessert on the holiday table. Preparing fresh pumpkin for baking is easy and tastes better than anything ever coming out of a can.
Pumpkins are not only tasty, but also nutritious. The bright orange color (like carrots) is evident that this piece of produce is full
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by Margaret McCarthy
The running joke in our family was if Grandma could braid garlic in her hair, she would. My grandmother loved garlic. She tossed it in vegetables, baked it into bread, blended with soups and sauces, and roasted it with the most delicious oil and cheese. She loved to grow it, and she was
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by Bruce Vilders
Thinking of raising and keeping honeybees? Having your own backyard hive is becoming increasingly inviting for those of us who want to guarantee that our gardens and fruit trees will be pollinated. Your decision to keep bees will also promote bee health in the face of the ubiquity of chemical weed killers and
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