Gardening is part planning, part serendipitous and 100% rewarding – in a pick yourself up by your boot straps sort of way. I love the reliably unexpected moments of discovery. Volunteers and new comers mixing up a planting plan, traveling pollinators and crops that sometimes fail but often succeed. My best plants, like best friends, [...]
Archive for the ‘DISCOVER’ Category
May 10, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, Critters, Gardens, Habitat, Inspired, Native
Social Tagging: Creating Natural Landscapes • Garden • habitat • Soaproot
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, Critters, Gardens, Habitat, Inspired, Native
Social Tagging: Creating Natural Landscapes • Garden • habitat • Soaproot
April 22, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DISCOVER, Organic, Profiles
Social Tagging: Farm Store • Growing Food on the Honor System • Organic Strawberries • Swanton Berry Farm
Filed under: DISCOVER, Organic, Profiles
Social Tagging: Farm Store • Growing Food on the Honor System • Organic Strawberries • Swanton Berry Farm
It doesn’t look like much from the outside but when you walk into the Swanton Berry Farm store it’s a wonderful shock to the system. It’s like a perfectly dreamy flashback full of berries, treats and wish-you-had-it memorabilia. All senses are on from the get-go. The welcome sign invoking the honor system, the pie [...]
April 9, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DISCOVER, News, Perspective, Profiles
Social Tagging: Change through Food • Food Forest • Urban Gardening
Filed under: DISCOVER, News, Perspective, Profiles
Social Tagging: Change through Food • Food Forest • Urban Gardening
Ron Finley delivers some great one-liners in his Ted Talk presentation. “Plant some sh*t… get gangsta with it” being tops on the list. But his message is bigger than that. His movement of creating a food forest out of the food desert in South Central LA is simple and yet so very powerful — human [...]
April 4, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Botanical Moment, Nature, Profiles
Social Tagging: Garden • Why do you garden?
Filed under: Botanical Moment, Nature, Profiles
Social Tagging: Garden • Why do you garden?
The art of crafting a garden is one of the most fulfilling and sometimes hair pulling endeavors to embark upon. Clean lines, starting small and including plants you love is a good place to begin. But when choosing plants count on the emotional takeover of the five f’s: flowers, fragrances, flavors, fauna and family. They [...]
March 27, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, DO, Grow, Inspired
Social Tagging: Grow Plants From Seed • Seed Geek • Seeds I love to look at...
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, DO, Grow, Inspired
Social Tagging: Grow Plants From Seed • Seed Geek • Seeds I love to look at...
My early spring to-plant list always includes pumpkins. A garden without pumpkins must be like committing spring planting heresy. It’s just not right. And of course they have to be accompanied by loads of other squashes. Lupines are a hardy bunch from seed to flower. Like an independent teenager, they tend to strike out on their [...]
March 15, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Compost, Educate, Garden Love, Tips
Social Tagging: Edible Weeds • Is there such thing as a good weed? • Weeds as compost • Weeds as Mulch • What is a weed?
Filed under: Compost, Educate, Garden Love, Tips
Social Tagging: Edible Weeds • Is there such thing as a good weed? • Weeds as compost • Weeds as Mulch • What is a weed?
The thought of weeding conjures up all sorts of reactions from people. There are weeding haters, weeding lovers and an entire range of folks somewhere in between – in the toleration zone. And the basic fact, no matter how you feel about it, if you keep a garden there is weeding to be done. 5 [...]
March 5, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DISCOVER, Profiles
Social Tagging: Connecting to Nature • Even Famous People Love to Garden • Get to know others through his/her garden • The Beatles
Filed under: DISCOVER, Profiles
Social Tagging: Connecting to Nature • Even Famous People Love to Garden • Get to know others through his/her garden • The Beatles
Love it.
March 1, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DESIGN, DISCOVER, DO, Gardens, Grow, Materials
Social Tagging: grow a garden • Urban Gardening Ideas
Filed under: DESIGN, DISCOVER, DO, Gardens, Grow, Materials
Social Tagging: grow a garden • Urban Gardening Ideas
How much space do you need to garden? What counts? It’s one of the latest questions buzzing around the garden world since NPR covered a study on urban gardening in Chicago. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used Google Earth to find over 65 acres dedicated to food production — or at least what [...]
February 12, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DO, Garden Love, Grow, Organic, Tips
Social Tagging: Get it Right • Monsanto • Organic Garden • Roundup
Filed under: DO, Garden Love, Grow, Organic, Tips
Social Tagging: Get it Right • Monsanto • Organic Garden • Roundup
This was insane. Giant, keg sized bottles of Roundup in my local store. Double the trouble for one low price! At least on the front end. But on the back end – as far as I’m concerned – is pandora’s box of chemical warfare disguised as a helpful, make-your-life-simple remedy for battling anything unwanted. My [...]
February 2, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, DISCOVER, DO, Grow
Social Tagging: Obsessed with Kale? Winter Garden Crops • school garden
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, DISCOVER, DO, Grow
Social Tagging: Obsessed with Kale? Winter Garden Crops • school garden
A closer look at the school garden I manage reveals a few faithful winter classics. The same standards of my obsessive winter diet. Broccoli, kale, kale, flowers to adorn my salad, more kale and broccoli. The few varieties missing here would be carrots, leafy greens of all kinds and, of course, more carrots. (However, I’m [...]