Forming an intimate connection with my forest garden and seeing how it changes over time has taught me a lot. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Forest gardens are designed around layers of trees, shrubs, perennials and ground cover plants used in such a way it reflects the look and feel of a natural forest. They are designed to be a diverse, ...

Imagine your backyard as a lush habitat of flowering and fruiting trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and vines made vibrant with the sights and sounds of buzzing insects, butterflies, hummingbirds, and ...

In the face of rising global temperatures and climate change, gardeners and homeowners are increasingly looking at ways of making their gardens more sustainable. From drought-tolerant planting to ...

My goal was to plant a few fruit trees in a sheltered spot on the south side of my home. That led to an interest in orchards and then to forest gardens and the symbiotic relationships of plants. Of ...

On an overcast Saturday morning, staff and volunteers gathered at the Early Learning Center and Laboratory Preschool, both located on the University of Delaware’s Children’s Campus. With shovels and ...

Four yards in the northwest Champion Forest area are presented for touring on Sunday, April 26, from 1 to 5 p.m. by the Champion Forest Garden Club. This year’s backyard garden tour includes a wide ...

In the 1930s, an archeologist from the Smithsonian wrote a short paper remarking on the exquisite vegetation around First Nation villages in Alaska. The villages’ surroundings were filled with nuts, ...