gardening

Homeowners Tom Carroll and Hermine Carroll held a ceremonial planting of vegetables in their garden on Monday. The Village of Miami Shores had prohibited front-yard gardens, but the Florida legislature passed a law that assures such gardens' legality.

After 6-Year Battle, Florida Couple Wins The Right To Plant Veggies In Front Yard

6:22pm July 02, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

A 2013 zoning ordinance threatened Hermine Ricketts with a $50 fine each day for the garden she had tended for years. So she pulled it up — and got a lawyer.

The Real Estate We're In

11:06am August 06, 2018

NPR launches a new series on America's housing crisis. “Shut Out of the Housing Market,” we talk to the reporter behind it.

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Environment

Warmer Weather Gives Piedmont Gardeners The Green Light

10:43am May 04, 2018

by David Ford

Springtime in the Piedmont has been a real rollercoaster ride for local gardeners this year with temperatures 10-15 degrees below normal, and cold snaps near freezing even in late April.

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Syrian gardeners at the Domiz refugee camp in northern Iraq share the harvest.

Community And Vegetables Grow Side-By-Side In Syrian Refugee Camp Gardens

10:51am February 22, 2018

by Julia Travers

Some Syrians have found that the difficult work of growing fruits and vegetables in refugee camps brings a sense of home, peace, and of course, adds fresh food to the community.

Historic Drought Cripples Farms And Ranches In American West

The Ground Beneath Our Feet

1:08pm December 04, 2017

"Without proper care for it we can have no life."

Here I am in 2015 confidently posed by the weeds I was ready to conquer.

National

How My Little Community Garden Plot Went From Flop To Flourish

7:00am August 17, 2017

by Carolyn Beans

Two years ago, Carolyn Beans — plant biologist, flower farm worker and daughter of a veggie-grower — thought she had what it took to coax a bounty out of her tiny urban garden. She was wrong.

Human Interest

Love Of Plants Leads To Career At Botanical Garden: John Whisnant

3:12pm July 19, 2017

by Alyssa Hughes

Radio Camper Alyssa Hughes spoke with John Whisnant, Executive Director of the Paul J.

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Seedsheets are made of weed-blocking fabric, a thick layer of soil and dissolvable pods full of organic seeds.

National

Seeds Of Change: Mini Gardens Help Drive The Growth Of Food At Home

4:04pm May 31, 2017

by Kristen Hartke

Container kits, designed for urban living and planted with recipes already in mind, are appealing to people who are interested in home cooking, food-sourcing and the environment.

The elaborate Alnwick Garden in northeast England includes a "Poison Garden" that showcases plants with killer properties. Visitors are invited to look but not touch or even smell.

Welcome To The Poison Garden: Medicine's Medieval Roots

12:28pm April 27, 2017

by Joanne Silberner

One corner of the garden of Alnwick Castle in northern England grows a hundred plants behind lock and key. Many of the toxic species there were used by medieval doctors — nasty plants adapted to heal.

Minara Begum (left) and her sister, Rajna Begum, served coconut Mishti (sweets) at the first Bandhu Gardens pop-up at Rose's Fine Food last July.

This Garden Connects Bangladeshi Women With Restaurants — And Each Other

6:42pm March 14, 2017

by Dorothy Hernandez

The female-run Bandhu Gardens in Michigan sells surplus vegetables from backyards and hosts pop-up dinners and cooking classes to help meet the needs of recent immigrants and their families back home.