Chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides often seep into your food and cause many health problems from toxic residues. To focus on organic gardening, try using all natural methods of gardening. Organic gardening is a friend to the environment. Organic fertilizer is usually made from plant or animal waste or powdered minerals, such as manure and compost, as well as bone and cottonseed meal. They are usually sold as "soil conditioners" rather than fertilizer, because

Just imagine!!! Growing more than 3 tons of organic produce, flowers and herbs annually for an entire community on less than an acre of land? Sound impossible? There are community gardens all over the country doing just that. These community gardens are often called the "new" green space. Community gardens have been around for hundreds of years, and they benefit the volunteers who work in them as much as the people they feed. Not only do community gardens draw people tog

Many gardeners wonder what exactly organic gardening means. Rodale's Organic Life states the simple answer is that organic gardeners don't use artificial fertilizers or pesticides on their plants. But gardening organically is much more than what you don't do. If you garden organically, you think of your plants as a whole system within Nature that starts in the soil and includes the water, people, wildlife and even the insects. An organic gardener strives to work in harm

The Good Food Project, an initiative to build community gardens and encourage people to grow their own healthy food, as a program of The Food Bank of Central Louisiana, has partnered with the Rapides Soil and Water Conservation District to assist schools with garden start-up costs since early in the life of the project--December 2011. Max C. Johnston, Chairman of the RSWCD Board of Supervisors' best state the value of this long-standing partnership: "The Good Food Project has