Fiskars, makers of the famous orange-handled crafting scissors and assorted gardening pruners, among other things (turns out they make boats too. o-kay), recently sent me their Power Stroke Telescoping Pruning Stik 12-Foot Tree Pruner as a 
Hello Pennsylvania! I'm going to be giving two workshops and a presentation this coming Earth Day/Arbor Day Weekend at Terrain at Styer's in Glen Mills, PA.
Where: Terrain at Styer's
914 Baltimore Pike, Glen Mills, PA, 
Another spring and a new crop of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is setting up camp for the season. We found a few small plants in the street garden cleanup last week and several at the community 
The title is a quote from this video. No truer words have been spoken.
Spring must be in the air because I bought two cactus plants this week. The first is some kind of barrel 
Hey Toronto! Let's grow some seedlings together!
I posted about this in the forums but wanted to push it here as well since seed starting season in Toronto is happening NOW.
So here's the deal: I've managed to 
During our trip to Austin, Texas last week, Ted Forbes, a fellow photo and design geek, drove out to Austin to go on a photo safari. After a series of snafus (mostly my fault), we ended up driving out to Hamilton 
I recently did an interview with Mari Malcolm of the Amazon blog about the garden books I keep on my own bookshelf. It was a fun interview to do. I love, love, love books and 
I listened to this essay about the importance of physical labor by urban gardener Mary Seton Corboy yesterday morning on the This I Believe program and thought it was so brilliant I had to share. 
While in the Cuban countryside, we came upon a number of very old cemeteries that always sat right next to the ocean. I was told that one cemetery dated back to 1919. How they managed to survive 
I'm back! I'm covered in mosquito bites. Itchy. I'm sunburned. Also itchy. I'm feeling much more alive and functional than I was before I left, although my brain is also super scrambled from the complexity of this 
It's that time of year again. I'm supposed to write some kind of rundown of the year highlighting the ups and downs. Look to the future. Make resolutions. Count my blessings. Recap events. Write some kind 
I bought "A Tale of 12 Kitchens" by artist and designer Jake Tilson just over a year ago and have been trying to find a reason to write about it on the site ever since. 
I have already stated that I don't care for the Holidays, and yet there are a few staples that I do enjoy: cooking and eating good food, making bath products for friends, super tacky over-the-top decoration, and 
I didn't intend to write another post about Holiday gifts this season but I realized that when I wrote the first post I left out the handmade items I found in my search. There's some really great stuff there 
When that old adage "The grass is always greener" was coined they must have been thinking about gardeners -- or maybe they were just thinking about gardeners like me -- because as much as I love my 
Please note that items are listed in U.S prices.
1. Botanicalls DIY Plant Twitter Kit - $99.00 How many of us really need this? I don't really need this. I know when to water my plants. All I have 
This little pot of Healing Skin Salve by Ella's Botanicals is currently saving my life. When I last wrote I was suffering from a bandage-related allergy but the actual tattoo wasn't too bad -- a 
I got a tattoo.
I feel a little silly saying it since there is something kind of odd really about having artwork permanently etched onto one's body. And despite what anyone has ever told you, getting a
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