Organic Gardening News and Advice

A Stone's Throw, Orvie's Stories Back in the earliest days of the internet, Mort Mather looked around for someone to help him publish his work in this new cyberspace thing. He found me. We...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2016/02/new-book-of-short-stories-from-mort.html

To call this a "grilled cheese" would be an insult. We've been working on creating Good to Go, our local and organic food takeout restaurant , for a few months now. So it was with great inte...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2014/07/farm-to-counter-next-great-thing.html

The following post is from our new site for our new business: Good to Go Organic and Local Food Takeout Restaurant . Robin and I jumped on the chance to take over the very small space of the fo...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2014/06/good-to-go-is-good-to-go-so-lets-go.html

Organic fertilizer honor wagon near Roseboom, NY It's mud season up here in the Northeast, and this is the time of year I start itching to get in the mud  pit. It's also the time of year I ...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2013/04/peas-and-greens-are-not-enough-good.html

We can't all have our dream garden, like the organic garden at this Maui bed and breakfast , where, if you show up when they're ripe, you could be served organic cherimoya . But no matter where y...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2013/01/if-you-cant-have-dream-garden.html

Our friends and local organic farmers Dave and Sonia of Nectar Hills Farm could use your vote at the Raising Organic Family Farms "The Farm Favorite " contest. > From Feb. 22 – March ...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2012/02/raising-organic-family-farms-farm.html

I just wrote the good folks at Kiva an email about the dearth of organic and green projects available to loan money to. > I've been a member for a few months but have only made two...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2011/12/organic-agriculture-loans-at-kiva.html

John Robb of Global Guerrillas has an interesting post on Reclaiming Dead Soil through Hugelkultur  which is a process of composting wood into a raised bed. Best to start with already rotting...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2011/11/hugelkultur-creating-fertile-soil-with.html

We had a very late and heavy show melt this year, which gave me an excuse to not get out there in the mud in the spring, so the garden got a late start. And then it rained like hell for a while, ...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2011/09/awful-year-for-garden.html

My long time gardening friend Mort Mather has the best organic weed control tip ever in his blog today. Long time readers who know this technique should go ahead and read anyway, as he's updat...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2011/05/organic-weed-control-best-tip-ever.html

The mud is almost dry enough to get out there and start working some horse manure into the soil. We used to go to Nectar Hills Farm to bag our own manure, but I'm a lazy gardener and have found...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-york-natural-skin-care-products.html

How much organic fraud goes undetected? Considering the premium on the price of organic food, I'm really surprised we don't hear more of this going on, and not just from China.in reference to: ...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-bet-this-happens-all-time.html

This is an interesting article on the future of manure as fertilizer. I would like to see a web site that listed local sources of manure so farmers could easily and less expensively use organic ...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/12/manure-futures.html

All gardening is local. Duh. So, if you want to be a great gardener, one of the best ways to start is to do what your neighbor does. This list of gardening blogs is broken down by state, so you ...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/09/best-practices-for-your-area.html

Back in 1996, I was contacted by Mort Mather about publishing his organic gardening articles on line. I was just in there cleaning up some things and I got to reading some of the articles. What...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/09/mort-mathers-garden-spot.html

> I've started organic gardening, but my soil isn't very good. I have > found multiple ways of getting organic matter into my soil, but my > garden is huge 50' x 150...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/08/getting-organic-matter-into-soil.html

The only ripe tomatoes I've gotten this year are the cherry kind and I'm already thinking about winter. Maybe it was the 48 degree night we had last week, or maybe it's the old joke from a few po...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/08/time-to-start-hording-hay-and-manure.html

What a great story. Nothing helps the planet more than people growing their own food, so teaching youngsters about it makes sense for their future. And learning first hand about science and work ...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/07/like-music-gardening-makes-better.html

I've been seeing a lot of studies lately that prove organic is better. This one is especially interesting because pesticides are the worst of the worst when it comes to spraying. Linked to cancer...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/07/another-fact-about-organic-agriculture.html

A warm day today as the 4th approaches reminds me of a joke I heard recently about the weather up here, which has turned me into a year-around cold weather gardener now (lots of greens and peas,...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/06/heard-new-joke-about-weather-up-here.html

The NY Times reports more problems with organic certification from China (surprise, surprise), this time a case of conflict of interest by the Organic Crop Improvement Association, which used emp...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/06/i-can-certify-my-own-produce.html

Our friends Dave and Sonia run Nectar Hills Farm just down the road from us, near Cooperstown, NY. We are members of their CSA, and we make our beef jerky from their grass-fed meat. They also gr...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/06/nyt-story-features-our-friends-and.html

With all the news lately that organic is indeed better for you (and especially better for the planet, including healthy soil working as a carbon sink), it is especially important that this govern...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/06/we-were-promised-transparency.html

Our friend Cherie runs a Hawaii bed and breakfast on Maui and writes a Maui Hawaii Blog where she talks story about all the great stuff she does in Hawaii (like running her volunteer on vacati...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/05/organic-gardening-in-hawaii.html

As you probably know if you read this blog regularly, we know some organic farmers and we do our best to help them thrive. But times are tough, especially for people selling products that are mo...

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/2010/04/times-are-tough-for-organic-coffee.html