News — Gardening

I love Mother's Day shopping for loved ones who are big on homestead projects. It's always an excuse to go to Home Depot or my local garden store. How can you look at gazebos and flowers and not get excited about DIY projects? Honestly, walking through a home improvement gardening section feels pretty similar to walking through my grandmother's yard. She has just about everything you'd expect someone with a green thumb to have. Even though she would probably admit she has enough in her collection, there's no harm in adding more. Garden tools get rusty, and there's always room...

So, you want to start growing your own food! Great! If you're not already sold on the idea, here are 7 Reasons to Start a Garden.  And I'll add one more, which I never thought I would need... If your local food supply gets disrupted, being able to grow food at home makes a HUGE difference in food security. Now, obviously you need to be able to practice a little bit of delayed gratification, since even if you go out and plant radishes RIGHT THIS SECOND it'll still be a month+ before you're eating them (and they're the quickest thing...