How to Make Compost Tea

Planting the Urban Garden Project

Prepping Our Square Foot Garden Beds

Chickens 101

Recently, Ben and I had the privilege of interviewing our friend, Bill Stephenson, and his son, Bridger, about their small chicken coop overlooking beautiful Coeur d’Alene, ID. Bill initially took on this project to teach his son about small scale farming and the importance of good health, self-sufficiency, and gardening.

Grow A Bigger Tomato!

During my surfing today I came across multiple videos on how to increase both the size and possibly the yield of your tomato plants.  Interested?  I know I am but what they suggest is so contrary to what I have always done I am nervous to try it.  Oh well, we aren’t calling our garden [...]

The Urban Garden Project Chicken Coop 2 of 4

Here is the latest video highlight of our Square  Foot Gardening Chicken Coop!  We’ve made significant progress since last time you saw it so check it out!

Espaliered Fruit Trees

Espali what?  Espalier is the French horticultural technique of training trees through pruning and grafting in order to create formal “two-dimensional” or single plane patterns by the branches of the tree.  Basically you train a fruit tree to grow out instead of up, horizontal instead of vertical!
An espalier collects almost as much sunlight as a [...]