May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, And may trouble avoid you wherever you go.
~Irish Blessing

The method to the madness of organic pest management with a bit on responsible fertilizing thrown in! The following is handout material from an HGEL lesson and for your individual reference only. Please do not reproduce or distribute without the author’s written consent. Click HERE to download lesson

  Congratulations! You’ve learned to grow warm season edibles! Now, it’s time to reap what you sowed! Below is the handout from my harvest class… Click HERE to download PDF of this presentation

Beneficial insects ID poster from UC Davis

Download the PDF to the handout for my “Oh…Beehave” class on bee-friendly gardening!

Click HERE to view this infographic on its website.

A beautiful and ancient monocot, the leek is, as far as I’m concerned, a necessity in any serious cool season culinary garden.

“Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke.”
Bette Davis as Margo Channing in ‘All About Eve’ (1950)

Ahhh, strawberries. There’s probably no other fruit that stirs little girl memories like strawberries!

The soil food web is the community of organisms living all or part of their lives in the soil.
Soil organisms support plant health as they decompose organic matter, cycle nutrients, enhance soil structure, and control the populations of soil organisms including crop pests.