Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

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Create a charming cottage garden with fragrant, colorful flowers that return year after year—like roses, peonies, and ...

For many people, the idea of growing their own food is a dream that feels out of reach. Maintaining a lush and productive garden often requires hours of labor-intensive work, from planting and weeding ...

Many weeks before tomato seedlings can be safely transplanted outside — or almost any freshly seed-sown vegetables dare break the surface of the slowly warming soil — harvest is underway in John Forti ...

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 ...

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You know hostas? Those broad-leafed, perennial plants landscapers so often put in shady spots, or on the edges between ...

Ladybugs, lacewings, and other beneficial insects feed on plant pests and naturally make gardens more pest-resistant. But ...

Join Mark from Self-Sufficient Me as he visits Liz Zorab’s inspiring self-sufficient garden in the stunning Welsh countryside ...