Commit to Grow Day 17: Food Miles

Let me get right to the point; you don’t need a big garden to grow more food. Even small space gardeners can boost their yield by practicing a few sneaky techniques like vertical gardening, intensive planting, and companion planting. Here are 3 ways to grow more food this year: Grow UP! – There are many benefits to growing food vertically. You’ll save valuable garden space, but you’ll also reduce insect and disease problems and make harvesting a snap – no more stooping, bendin

If you have an area in your basement that stays cool all winter long, you can make use of these cold spots to keep storage crops fresh well into winter. Try experimenting with these nine crops to grow for winter food storage. I’ve been gardening in one form or another all my life. I came from a family that tended several large gardens. When I left home, I grew fresh herbs and attempted to grow some vegetables in pots while dreaming of a future in a home of my own with a yard and a vegetab

Look at THIS image! See that? That’s FOOD! Lots of it. And it’s all being grown in backyards. Grow your own food! In the USA, home of the free, land of the brave, we’re not allowed to grow food in our yards in many areas. If it wasn’t so freaking sad it would be laughable. But in Geneva Switzerland they don’t just grow food, they produce LOTS of it! Foodscaping in Geneva Switzerland | Image: Schema-Root.org So most neighborhoods and local areas in the USA do n

In our relatively short growing season, we need to grow most food crops in a fairly intense way. We need to select crops that mature quickly. Some crops, like mescluns and salad greens grow so fast that we can take several harvests in a single season. Other plants, like pumpkins, use most of the growing season to produce masses of foliage, and then bloom and form fruits as autumn approaches. Whatever the case, the plants we cultivate in our food gardens take nutrients from the soil and ene