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Great techie Gardening Gadgets and "5 best gardening apps"

Planet Natural is the store for people seeking environmentally safe, effective products and solutions for their home and gardens. There is also tons of information regarding how to compost, what insects are good for gardens, etc.

some tips for those of you who garden in urban areas like I do.

Systems you can build or install yourself, to simplify sustainability practices in your garden.

Terrific page with advice on how to create and manage an urban garden!

Some great tips on planting a non-GMO garden...

Bad Monsanto, BAD! Keep Monsanto out of your home garden by following the steps in this article.

The Gaza Strip is trying to fight food insecurity by creating urban agriculture. The FAO is helping Gazans become less dependent on external assistant by creating sustainable vertical gardening and aquaponics systems.

This is a great website packed with tips and useful information about sustainable living, gardening, alternative energy sources, harvesting rainwater, helping people affected by natural disasters etc. It is a shop where you can buy things that will aid you in your sustainable endeavors but the blog section is FULL of useful information and tips. There is even a blog on weening children off of video games! The GUIDES section is also full of amazing tips, even eco boating and ways to get out and play in nature. I love this site, hope you enjoy it as well.

Here is an article on trench composting I thought the group might enjoy. My wife and I have reduced our waste to about one small kitchen bag a week by composting our kitchen scraps.

Hi. That is a great idea. Saves the plant from drying out. I will do that for my garden. Funny I was reading about Africa a remote area where this happen. A university sent someone out here to help solve a issue for these people to have some kind of heat source like gas. Long story short you take all the food scraps throw them into a blender and dump in in a 50 gallon drum. Does this for a bout a week. Have another 50 gallon drum ready empty. This guy ran a gas line off the barrels into the house. It produce enough methane to cook and heat the house as long you keep dumping scraps into the barrel.

John Jeavons has been doing this work for over 30 years. I studied with him In Northern California. I found it fascinating that he spoke at Google in Cali recently. Even though his method is not technology intensive it is science based and is feeding the world in many ways.

I studied with John many years ago. His book Backyard Homestead is one of the best books for back yard gardeners!!

Quick information on permaculture gardening and forest management.

I feel like such communities are going to be a necessary and vital part of the future. I wonder if everyone will be living in communities like these in say 100 years?

The glorious bounty of the world wide web never fails. Check out these nurseries for a wide variety of common and rare non-GMO seeds for your home garden. Enjoy!

just couldn't marvel at this invention - all for sustainable and healthy living!

GTC is working to address Springfield's food desert problem, by getting community members involved in growing healthy and natural foods.