gardening

Straw bale gardening: New technique gives anyone a chance at a garden

By Kristoffer Tigue, TC Daily Planet

When Joel Karsten was just a kid on his father's farm, he began to notice weeds growing out of some of the discarded straw bales.

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TCDP TOP PICK | An Evening with Seitu Jones at the Minnesota Humanities Center

04/25/2013 - 6:00pm - 8:30pm

TCDP TOP PICK: Do you know Seitu Jones? If you live in the Twin Cities, the work of the visionary artist has touched your life whether you know it or not. Above is a cut-steel sculpture he created for the Dayton's Bluff Community Center in 2000; recently, he's worked with local youth to create artwork for the new Lexington Avenue Central Corridor light rail station. On April 25, Jones will be at the Minnesota Humanities Center to talk about a community dinner table he'll be installing over the better part of a mile along the Central Corridor line. - Jay Gabler

Life of a Gourd

04/13/2013 - 1:00am - 3:00am

Gourd artist Kristen Treuting guides visitors through an exploration of this art form, citing history and cross-cultural connections.

Last summer was Tomato-ville. What will this year bring?

By Sherrilee Carter, Trail Baboon

Whenever someone on the Trail brings up a book, I check it out and usually try to find it and read it. So someone mentioned Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, I quickly checked it out from the library. It was horrifying; I was appalled by the ethics, the chemistry and the economics of the tomato industry that were laid out by the author. In addition, it made me think about the taste of tomatoes that I’ve been purchasing recently. All of this led me to the decision that I really wanted to grow my own tomatoes this past summer.

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Name these plants: St. Anthony Park Garden Club contest begins Feb. 1

By Mary Maguire Lerman, Park Bugle

On a late-November afternoon, St. Anthony Park Garden Club members quickly changed the concrete facade at the Como Avenue U.S. Post Office into a winter garden. Using fruits, seeds and other parts of woody plants, grasses, sedges, ferns, forbs and perennial flowers, they designed a display that will attract songbirds throughout the winter months. The Post Office staff has said many customers are also attracted to the “winter garden.”

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The hungry insurgent: Fall planting tips and upcoming food and gardening events

By Charley Underwood, Southside Pride

This month has been an amazing one for gleaning. My neighbors have offered me so many apples, grapes, various veggies and even eggs, that I seem to have neglected my own gardens.

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Don't stop watering your gardens and trees

By Mary Maguire Lerman, Park Bugle

Poet Alfred Joyce Kilmer said, “I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree.”

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Seward Co-op Book Signing with Atina Diffley

09/29/2012 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Atina Diffley will be at Seward Co-op on Saturday, September 29th, at 2:00 PM for a book signing for her new book Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works. In telling her stor

Minnesotans celebrate community gardens and gardeners on August 11

By Mary Treacy, Poking Around

The frost is still deep in the ground when the preparations begin. Neighbors gather to pour over seed catalogs, sign up for tasks, exchange gardening tips and harvest preferences.

As the back hoes come out of storage the community gardeners face reality – the hours of stooped labor, sources of water, careful labeling or indistinguishable seeds.

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Glacial Ridge Growers: Glenwood farmers work to restore prairie through native plant cultivation

By Emily Noble, SPNN

Emily Noble, your host for this episode of SPNN's Market series, travels to Glenwood, Minnesota to visit the farmers of Glacial Ridge Growers.

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