With Hamish Chapman The benefits of a community fruit and vege garden...
Community urban gardening brings residents closer to nature and strengthens social ties in a large city.
No matter your personal tastes and lifestyle, there is usually a way to enjoy gardening at home. Whether you and your family have a house in the suburbs or you're living alone in an apartment, everyone can make it work.
Cultivation Street was set up to pull together some of the best community gardens across the nation and tell their stories of success.
Lottie Delamain, whose garden at the 2022 Chelsea Flower Show highlights the importance of having a closer relationship with our clothes and the way they are produced, talks us through the fascinating world of natural dyes and the plants you can grow to create them
After four months of hard work it’s done: our new vegetable garden is ready.
Build a sunflower fort, a pizza garden, a pole bean teepee fort or create fun children's garden design ideas. Create fairytale garden with fairy wands
Architecture grad students Luis Alvarez, Wai Kan Chan, and Di Wang from McGill University had the winning proposal for the “Growing our Community” student design competition, which is part of Canada's 150th anniversary celebration. The
Ecovillages as a sustainable way of living may be a good solution to minimize further strain to our already stressed-out planet.
What Is a Sensory Garden? A sensory garden is a garden that has a collection of plants that are appealing to one or more of the five senses; sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch. Sensory gardens s…
Terraform, a wheelchair-accessible planter box currently used in about a hundred retirement homes, rehab centers and public gardens in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland, was a long time in the making. Actually, it nearly did not make it. About 10 years ago, several contemporary artists were invited to exhibit pieces in community gardens in the…
Aeroponics is a deceptively simple growing method that uses very little water and no soil. As counterintuitive as that may seem, aeroponics has yielded more crops in less space and in less time than traditional methods.
Check out this super-simple raised bed setup for your garden. All you need are planks, rebar, a mallet, and soil to fill the garden bed.
Norfolk Postal Garden Design Clinic This large and slightly sloping garden belongs to a lady from Norfolk who contacted us about a Postal Garden Design. She has a disabled daughter, so requires a disabled-friendly garden with good wheelchair access so
No matter your personal tastes and lifestyle, there is usually a way to enjoy gardening at home. Whether you and your family have a house in the suburbs or you're living alone in an apartment, everyone can make it work.
Mark Lane, the UK's first garden designer in a wheelchair and presenter on BBC Gardeners' World, with his top tips for a safe, secure and beautiful garden.
Getting closer to nature has become a goal and a dream which is sometimes really hard to achieve. The location plays a crucial role but the most important
Encourage the love of gardening in your community by building your very own seed library to share seeds, plants, and supplies with others.
On approach to the guesthouse, the family keeps an edible garden in concrete planters by the property’s landscape designer, Cielo Sichi of Landfour. Tagged: Outdoor, Garden, Back Yard, Front Yard, Side Yard, Gardens, Raised Planters, Walkways, and Trees.
Click on the image for a quick infographic on how to plant and grow your own garlic, based on resources by Marybeth Janerich (Wasatch Community Gardens) and Pete Rasmussen (Sandhill Farms). For detailed tips, tricks and how-tos on growing your own garlic (along with countless other garden goodies), visit Wasatch Community Gardens and Sandhill Farms' websites at
A study of Blue Zones, where residents live longer than is typical, find that a common trait involves gardens.
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Build a sunflower fort, a pizza garden, a pole bean teepee fort or create fun children's garden design ideas. Create fairytale garden with fairy wands
Starting a big vegetable garden? It’s fun and exciting to...
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"Afristar Foundation utilises Permaculture design systems as the primary methodology of our community development strategy. Permaculture is an optimistic,
Do you know the history of community gardening dates back to World War I, when gardens became a necessity both in the United States and in the United Kingdom? Learn more about historical and modern day victory gardens in today's post!
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A master gardener is a trained volunteer who donates their time to their local extension. They do this because they are experienced, gardening enthusiasts and love all aspects of growing plants, flowers and vegetables. They are also knowledgeable about what plants do well in their zone as well as what pests and diseases are prevalent […]
