With growing your own food quickly becoming the trend of the future, this page is devoted to sharing tips on gardening organically and sustainably in residential and/or urban settings. Find helpful links on composting including dos and don’ts. We link to articles on container gardening for indoors and outdoors, balcony and urban gardening, community gardening, and everything from DIY projects to ideas for homestead farmers. We pay special attention to vertical farming, and aquaponic farming as a growing wave of the future, made necessary from food scarcity due to drought, a good reason to start getting set up for all that is required for growing your own food, even if you are not quite ready to commence operations.
Visit our page on Sourcing Water for various links to capturing water for the garden, using rain barrels and other systems. You can check out our page Helping Pollinators for ways to provide an inviting, eco-friendly garden for them to visit, to help them and you both. Also, see our page on Green Gardening for alternatives to insecticides, including Neem whose leaves and seeds contain azadirachtin, while being safe enough for humans to ingest and use topically. Simple ingredients such as vinegar and back soda can be employed as well.
Find charts on companion gardening for best results, as well as information on the amount of sunlight required for various food crops.
We will share articles on a variety of ways to make growing your own food, easier, healthier, and more sustainable.
Gardening Know-How: Eco-Friendly Insect Spray: Using Natural Pest Control Sprays In The Garden
Climate Crisis Unleashes Pesticide Contamination from Thawing Permafrost, Elevating Global Emergency
Supernutritious: How to Make Homemade Weed Killer
EcoSnippets: Homemade Garlic-Mint Garden Insect Spray That Really Works…
Inceptive Minds: Making eco-friendly insecticide from discarded aloe peel
GardenBeds: 7 Ways Neem Oil Will Make Your Plants Thrive
GardenBeds: 8 Organic Neem Oil Uses for Garden
Planet Natural: Neem Oil for Plants: How and When to Use It on Plants
Habersizinle: Baking soda is a gardener’s best friend: Here are 13 clever uses in the garden
TreeHugger: Why Some Bees Are Endangered and What We Can Do to Help
EcoSnippets: How To Start Your Own 1-Acre, Self-Sustaining Homestead…55
EcoSnippets: Best Mini Greenhouse Kits For Small Spaces & Seed Starting…
EcoSnippets: 10 Intensive Gardening Methods That Really Work To Maximize Available Space…
Rural Sprout: 7 Productive Things To Do With An Empty Raised Bed In Fall & Winter
EcoSnippets: 10 Low Maintenance Crops: Grow More, Work Less, & Spend Less…
Coffee & Horticulture Farmers Kenya Ltd – How to identify the lack of micronutrients in your crops
EcoSnippets: A Complete Guide To Soil Microbiology – Improving Your Soil Microbiome…
EcoSnippets: How To Build Great Soil – A Soil Science Masterclass with Dr. Elaine Ingham…
Mother Earth Living: Sustainable Gardening: 5 Green Gardening Tips
Good Housekeeping: How to Start an Organic Garden in 9 Easy Steps
Gardener’s Path: Organic Gardening
All About Gardening: 11 Organic Gardening Tips to Grow an Incredible Organic Garden
TreeHugger: Expert Tips for a Sustainable Container Garden
Self-sufficient Me: This Is Why I’ve Been Using Garden Beds For 15 YEARS!
EcoSnippets: 5 Steps To Growing A Successful Apartment Container Garden…
Your Home and Garden: Your Beginner’s Guide to Eco-friendly Gardening at Home
EcoSnippets: Discover How Urban Farming Works…
GrowVeg: DIY Green House with Polythene Sheeting surrounded by Straw Bales
EcoSnippets: How To Grow 168 Plants In A 6 x 10 Area With A DIY Vertical A-Frame Hydroponic System… – GreenerWays Video
EcoSnippets: Basement Hydroponic Vertical Tower Garden Produces 133 Heads Of Lettuce…
EcoSnippets: How To Build An Aquaponics System Using a 55 Gal. Plastic Drum for $25
EcoSnippets: Ikea’s Hydroponic System Allows You To Grow Vegetables All Year Round Without A Garden…
EcoSnippets: How To Build A Vertical Growing Tower For Aquaponics Or Hydroponics…
EcoSnippets: Dutch Bucket Hydroponics – How It Works & How To Make Your Own Buckets…
EcoSnippets: Backyard Aquaponics As A Self-Sustaining Farm In Suburban LA… – Video
BitsOuttheBack – Aquaponics-Guide
EcoSnippets: Why Vertical Farms are Producing More Nutritious Crops
Living Green and Frugally: How to Build a Vertical Hydroponic Farm
EcoSnippets: This Is The Future: Tree-Shaped Vertical Farms That Grow 24 Acres Of Crops…
EcoSnippets: The Rise Of Vertical Farming As A Solution To Feed The World
This Is The Future: Tree-Shaped Vertical Farms That Grow 24 Acres Of Crops…
Rural Sprout: 10 Fruits And Veggies To Grow Vertically For Epic Yields In Tiny Spaces
Rural Sprout: 7 Productive Things To Do With An Empty Raised Bed In Fall & Winter
Almanac: How to Grow Vertically in Your Garden
Seeker Video: This Farm Of The Future Uses No Soil And 95% Less Water…
Garden Beds: Plant Once and Harvest for Years: Here Are 8 Plants to Transform Your Garden
Happy Sprout: Eco-friendly gardening tips for your green garden
Organic Consumer Association: How to SAVE SEEDS: Seed Saving TIPS and EXAMPLES
EcoSnippets: A Beginner’s Guide To Growing Your Own Microgreens…
EcoSnippets: You’re Eating Microplastics In Ways You Don’t Even Realize
EcoSnippets: Best Composting Bins For Composting Garden Waste…
One Home: Green Gardening Tips: A Haven for You and Nature
Gardening Soul: Plant Growing Tips
EcoSnippets: 10 Smart And Budget-Friendly Ways To Garden…
EcoSnippets: 40 Edible Plants That Will Grow In Partial Shade…
Green Nature: Green Gardening Tips
Green Gardening: 10 Plants That Will Make Your Cucumbers Thrive + 3 To Never Plant With Cucumbers
Gardening Soul: 8 Best Summer Vegetables to Grow in Pots
Gardening and Plants: Herbs to Grow in Water all year round
Homesteading Knowledge: Produce by Season of the Month
EcoSnippets: 10 Low Maintenance Crops: Grow More, Work Less, & Spend Less…
Treehugger: 3 Wild Berries You Can Eat—and 5 You Should Always Avoid
Attainable Sustainable: How to Freeze Food Without Plastic – 8+ Easy Tactics for Less Waste
Plants and Gardening: Perfecting Bell Pepper Growth at Home: Secret Tips for Abundant Production