Laboratory Report: (January 2022)
Winter 2022 A set of recent articles on climate change research uncovers some new insights that might be helpful to gardeners, although the studies’ findings…
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Myths: Aphids Are Always a Problem
Series Introduction All gardening techniques and assumptions have a double edge. Negative garden concepts often have a germ of the positive, while positive approaches can…
A Wellspring of Waste with Garden Futurist Deborah Pagliaccia
Winter 2021 Listen to the full Garden Futurist: Episode IX podcast here. One researcher is taking an unexpected approach to industrial agriculture’s greatest environmental challenges…
Sustainable Defensible Space & Resilient Landscapes
Winter 2021 The western United States has experienced an unprecedented year of wildfires and drought in 2021. In California, we have been adapting our gardens…
Dudleya – Silver Wonders
Winter 2021 Over the last several years, a California native succulent has increasingly made headlines as the subject of several high-profile plant poaching cases. Clinging…
Book Review: Garden Allies
The Insects, Birds & Other Animals That Keep Your Garden Beautiful and Thriving As editor of Pacific Horticulture magazine, I was thrilled when garden…
Book Review: Sustainable Food Gardens, Myths & Solutions
Baseball is simple, right? You throw the ball, you bat the ball, you catch the ball. Gardening is like that, right? You dig up the…
Book Review: A Good Drink
In Pursuit of Sustainable Spirits If you’ve ever wondered what the climate crisis might mean for the future of alcohol, author Shanna Farrell will…
Book Review: Swamplands
Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat There is a gobsmacking fact early on in the new book Swamplands: Tundra Beavers,…