Location: Midwest

I’m tired of all the snow. Who’s with me? I saw this weekend that even our neighbors in the south got a dusting.

I’m ready for winter to be over and this is the time of year when I always get big ideas for my flower gardens. Are

I have several gardens in Chicagoland. My community garden plot is a sunny patch of clay where I can grow my veggies. I decided we would grow organic. Simply put I didn’t want my wife and I to ingest toxins.

[Even as a kid I had an aversion to poisons, both mentally and physically. I’m

Location: Minnesota

As an indoor flower, African Violets are the most dependable for year-round color and variety. Easy to raise, all they really need is an occasional drink, some sunshine and a good

I love the outdoors. As a kid growing up in South Carolina, nature always attracted and inspired me.  Carrying nets and jars, I frequently walked through the woods to creeks or ponds looking for tortoises, turtles, crayfish, snakes, salamanders, frogs, toads, caddisfly larvae (which we called ‘little