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The traditional day to plant your peas, March 15 – St. Patrick’s Day – is just two weeks away! I am eager to dig into my own garden and am getting ready to build raised garden bed kits for yours. … Continue reading →

Garden educator Dorothy Mullen is leading Lawn-to-Food tours and workshops on the second Saturday of every month from until October. Each session will start at 9:30 a.m. at Riverside Elementary School. The workshops are free, but participants are required to register … Continue reading →

Tamara Dujovne and Matias Zaldarriaga of Princeton have a new garden, thanks to the Princeton School Gardens Cooperative. The Cooperative had a booth at the recent Communiversity festival in Princeton and gave away a Bountiful Boxes bed. I brought the … Continue reading →

Master gardener and educator Dorothy Mullen wanted to know the moment I was finished setting up the  bed at Whole Earth Center so she could get started putting in seeds – given all the queues of an early spring, a … Continue reading →

The puzzle and wonderment of our mild winter is giving way, among the gardeners I know, to sheer excitement about the imminent growing season. That means: Bountiful Boxes is opening for business! This year, I’m excited to introduce a new … Continue reading →

Alex Levine, chef at the Whole Earth Center, will be serving up arugula salad and collards from the Bountiful Boxes demonstration bed today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come and get it! In fact, a general note on produce … Continue reading →

I set up a trellis for the peas in the demonstration bed at Whole Earth Center – not a moment too soon because they had tipped over and were trying to climb each other. Despite breaking off a couple tops … Continue reading →

All the seeds we planted in April at the Whole Earth Center are coming up — the arugula was the first to poke up a row bright green dots in dark brown dirt. The chard and kale brought up the … Continue reading →

We spent some time yesterday over at Whole Earth Center’s Earth Day celebration, planting seeds and answering questions about the raised beds. Master gardener Dorothy Mullen, who was there making seedling pots out of paper, generously donated the seeds: kale, … Continue reading →

I’ve just been able to enjoy one of my favorite beginnings: filling a raised garden bed with rich soil and putting in the first plants. Fluffy, dark, weedless, hand-scoopable dirt easily moved aside to accept four young collard plants and … Continue reading →