From backyard retreats to downtown gardens, Holyoke tour showcases city’s green spaces

The Holyoke Historical Society's annual Garden Tour will highlight private gardens, urban agriculture sites and the residents working to make the city bloom.
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Backyard pond meant for frogs becomes unexpected magnet for neighborhood predator

One cat that hunts can turn a small habitat project into a risky place.
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Zooey Deschanel and Jonathan Scott's tiny breakfast nook is home to a towering herb garden

Forget classic terracotta pots, the couple's innovative kitchen gardening technique is perfect for growing herbs in tiny ...

July Is Peak Hummingbird Season — Here’s How to Draw Them to Your Yard

Hummingbirds are showing up in yards across the country right now, and the reasons behind this seasonal surge are more ...

I Wanted an Ecologically Responsible Garden. It Was Harder Than I Thought.

In the summer of 2020, my husband, Ryan, and I bought a house in Portland, Ore., with a sizable backyard containing little ...
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These 4 Black L.A. Businesses Are Stepping Up Against Food Deserts in Their ‘Hoods

From a curated farmers market on wheels to visiting local community gardens, these organizations are combatting inequity with ...

New for the backyard herb garden: cannabis

East Bay educator, gardener, foodie and author Penny Barthel wants everyone to be able to grow cannabis in their backyards — ...

This skyscraper-style tiny house sleeps two in a footprint smaller than you’d think: how it stacks rooms instead of spreading out

This skyscraper-style tiny house packs two levels into a tiny footprint. See how vertical design makes 107 square feet work ...
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A backyard tower goes up in rural Ohio promising to cut the electricity bill in half, and the thing that moves in around its base is turning into something no one in the clea…

Home wind turbines are being pitched as the next solar panels, but the science of what happens when one goes up reveals a ...

Crabgrass showing up in your yard? Here's what to do about it

Q: I’m starting to see what looks like small crabgrass plants in my lawn, but I used a preemergence herbicide earlier in the ...
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Lawnmowers were sold as the simple key to a neat, tidy yard the whole street would admire, but run one for a single hour and the cloud it leaves behind is far bigger than ...

Few sounds say American summer like a mower running somewhere down the street on a Saturday morning. The machine promised something simple and satisfying, a neat, even carpet of green the whole block ...

Creating a fairy garden in your Southern California yard with native plants

It’s amazing to me that an array of important pollinators and other invertebrates found their way to my yard because of my ...