PITTSFIELD — By this time next year, the Giving Garden will have given more fresh, organically grown produce to local food pantries thanks to a new hoop house. The all-volunteer agricultural program ...
When the butterflies found a new home at Hershey Gardens, a lush conservatory paradise built just for them, garden management was left with a conundrum: What to do with the former seasonal butterfly ...
FLINT, Mich. — On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a ...
WHITEHALL, Mich. — Shoreline Elementary in Whitehall has installed a new hoop house meant to help teach students about gardening year-round. Volunteers and educators worked together Tuesday to ...
When living in a temperate climate, some gardeners use their creativity in order to extend the growing season as much as possible. I am one of those gardeners. Over the years, I’ve been experimenting ...
Hoop houses, those large temporary membrane structures, remain banned in Elmhurst residential areas, although home gardeners looking to extend the growing season may use smaller plastic-covered low ...
The future of hoop houses in Elmhurst looked a little brighter Tuesday after a city committee agreed to recommend city law expand to beyond hoop houses to other systems or devices for extending the ...
Nicole Virgil stands in her backyard garden in Elmhurst, where she wants to grow winter and spring vegetables but has faced pushback from local officials. Nicole Virgil stands in her backyard garden ...
Rural Indigenous communities in Canada's North face many challenges getting regular access to nutritious foods, primarily because of the high cost of market food, restricted availability of nutritious ...
Since her retirement, Evelyn Rayford, former child nutrition director for the Forrest City School District, has spent her mornings in her "hoop house" tending to vegetables she raises. In addition to ...
FLINT, Mich. — On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a ...