Grow Your Own Produce – A Small-Scale Approach

Kitchen Scrap and Windowsill Gardening Have you ever been interested in small scale food growing? If so, get ready to discuss topics such as Kitchen Scrap Gardening and Windowsill Gardening. Kitchen Scrap Gardening means reusing food scraps from your kitchen to grow new plants.  Many kitchen scraps can be regrown in water or soil. Here […]
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Gardening in Times of Climate Change

Gardening Challenges/Strategies In 2022 I began to pay more attention to climate change issues, and how we as home gardeners can adapt to the changing situation. A webinar I recently attended gave me some insights and approaches which I will share with you. First, let us look at some key questions: What is climate change? […]
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Small Space Gardening

Indoor Hydroponic Systems and Microgreens Here we are – in the middle of winter! What a year. First, the growing season got off to a late start, then we had drought-like conditions, and before we knew it, we were well into the colder fall and winter months. And now, it’s time to give our yard […]
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Late Season Gardening

How To Have a Bountiful Late Fall Harvest It’s the end of another North Beach summer, and I have no idea what happened. Last I checked it was April, cold, windy, with lots of rain, and soil temperatures barely at 50 degrees when we truly need at least 55 degrees for seeding, germination, and growth. […]
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The Art of NatureScaping

NatureScaping 101 Over the last couple of months, I have been attending several webinars presented by the Multnomah County Soil and Water Conservation, and I got tremendously inspired especially by their NatureScaping webinar. The difference – as I understand – between landscaping and NatureScaping is the intention and approach. When I think of landscaping, I […]
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Sunken Rain Gardens Improve Storm Water Runoffs

Rain, Rain, Go Away … But Please Do Me Some Good! As I am looking out the window this morning, I notice something quite different than on most days over the last few weeks. Instead of the familiar dark clouds releasing their drizzle, light rain, and heavy downpours the sun is out promising a beautiful […]
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