World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD) is an annual international event generally celebrated on the first Saturday of May by gardeners and non-gardeners alike. WNGD was founded and organized by Mark Storey (consulting editor for Nude & Natural magazine) and permaculturalist Jacob Gabriel, as a project of Body Freedom Collaborative (BFC). In its early days, Storey…
Check out this quick video (6 million views) that shows tools/tips/hacks that will simplify your yard work and gardening efforts. We’re always on the lookout for great hacks and these are definitely worth watching.
Image by/from Nordisk familjebok The North American Biodynamic Association (formerly Biodynamic Farming & Gardening Association) is a United States-based company that promotes Biodynamic agriculture system through educational and research programs and has headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Biodynamic agriculture was inaugurated in 1924 by Austrian scientist Rudolf Steiner. It is the oldest, non-chemical agricultural movement and…
Gardening in Spain reflects the different styles of Spanish art, including influences from Roman, Islamic, Italian, French, and English gardens. Modern Spanish gardening emphasize gardens and their surroundings, focusing heavily on both urban horticulture and landscape architecture. Spanish gardens are affected by the climate and orography of Spain. The ground in Spain is generally drier…
Image by/from Umberto Brayj Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening on land that the gardeners do not have the legal rights to cultivate, such as abandoned sites, areas that are not being cared for, or private property. It encompasses a diverse range of people and motivations, ranging from gardeners who spill over their legal…
Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien) are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest an ancient and faraway natural landscape, and to express the fragility of existence as well…
Organic lawn management is the practice of establishing and caring for a garden lawn using organic horticulture, without the use of chemical inputs such as pesticides or artificial fertilisers. It is a component of organic land care and organic sustainable landscaping which adapt the principles and methods of sustainable gardening and organic farming to the…
Image by/from Noles1984 at English Wikipedia Natural landscaping, also called native gardening, is the use of native plants, including trees, shrubs, groundcover, and grasses which are indigenous to the geographic area of the garden. Natural landscaping is adapted to the climate, geography and hydrology and should require no pesticides, fertilizers and watering to maintain, given…
Easy gardening hacks to add to your gardening resource arsenal. These are easy DIY’s that anyone can apply. Have fun with them!
Paul James is a TV gardener from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Known as “The Gardener Guy,” he was the host of the HGTV show Gardening by the Yard from 1996 to 2009. He was the creator, writer and senior producer and shot almost the entire show in his own backyard. In the late 1980s, James began doing…
This clever plant hack video has 16 million+ views! Check out these clever hacks for healthy plants. I’m sure some of these ideas can be adapted to your gardening skills as well. You can have a green thumb after all!
Slow gardening is a philosophical approach to gardening which encourages participants to savor everything they do, using all the senses, through all seasons, regardless of garden type of style. Slow gardening applies equally to people growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruits, as well as those who tend to their own lawn, or have an intense…
Yes, this is actually a post about a string trimmer. Boring? Well, it’s an important tool when it comes to gardening / lawn improvement. A string trimmer, also called a “weed eater”, “whipper-snipper”, “weed-whacker”, “weed-whip”, “line trimmer” (in Australia and New Zealand) or “strimmer” (in the UK and Ireland), is a garden tool for cutting…
Climate-friendly gardening is gardening in ways which reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from gardens and encourage the absorption of carbon dioxide by soils and plants in order to aid the reduction of global warming. To be a climate-friendly gardener means considering both what happens in a garden and the materials brought into it and the…
An allotment garden (British English), often called simply an allotment, or a community garden (North America), is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing food plants. Such plots are formed by subdividing a piece of land into a few or up to several hundred land parcels that are assigned to…
A monastic garden was used by many and for multiple purposes. In many ways, gardening was the chief method of providing food for households, but also encompassed orchards, cemeteries and pleasure gardens, as well as medicinal and cultural uses. Gardening is the deliberate cultivation of plants herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. Furthermore, gardening was especially…
