gardening

For many kids and teenagers with disabilities, summertime can make it harder to find services that are often provided at school. But the Grand Traverse Area Children’s Garden is trying to help by letting kids try out their green thumbs.

The project started a few years ago as a collaboration between the Traverse City Downtown Development Authority, the Master Gardener Association of Northwest Michigan and Michigan State University Extension.

Many popular decorative plants are invasive, yet still legal for sale. One program that started in northern Michigan is trying to solve that problem.

While no gardener welcomes a tomato hornworm--they eat twice their weight in leaves each day--they are impressive creatures. They pupate underground, six…

In this all-too-fast-paced era we live in, it's comforting to see something that's managed to stick around for 225 years – the Old Farmer’s Almanac....

The Next Idea School gardens seem like a great idea. Teachers get to reinforce key concepts in science and math, students get hands-on experiences with...

Still less than a year out of its historic bankruptcy, Detroit’s successes and failures continue to make headlines. The city may have shed most of its...

http://ipraudio.interlochen.org/Seed_Saving.mp3The local foods movement is becoming even more local. For many gardeners and farmers, while they may grow…