On AlterNet: garden

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "garden"

Activists Are Reclaiming Vacant Lots For Gardens -- But Will There Be Legal Challenges?

Anna Lekas Miller, AlterNet. March 2, 2012.

Occupy Vacant Lots is being welcomed by many neighborhoods in Philly, but could legal challenges upend its work?

Michigan Woman Faces 93 Days in Jail for Planting a Vegetable Garden

Colleen Vanderlinden, TreeHugger. July 8, 2011.

This is not some gated community with HOA regulations. This is an ordinary, working class neighborhood in Oakland County, Michigan.

How Your Garden and Yard Can Weather Our Changing Climate

Carol Deppe, Chelsea Green Publishing. February 8, 2011.

Increases in average temperatures will mean far less than learning to deal with unpredictable weather, storms and severe weather extremes.

7 Reasons Why You Should Grow Your Own Food

Judi Gerber, Planet Green. February 26, 2010.

Having your own vegetable garden is now trendy, 38 percent of people planted a vegetable garden in 2009, but there are a host of other reasons, too.

Farms Race: The Obama's White House Garden Has Given Fire to an International Movement

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. May 1, 2009.

The first garden has spurred a race to plant flags on other high-profile plots and lay claim to various other gardening firsts.

Your Asphalt Parking Spot Can Become a Blooming Garden Plot

Ruben Anderson, The Tyee. April 7, 2008.

We can pave our streets green: Wouldn't you give up your extra parking spot for a garden plot?