Emily Davidow's enthusiastic garden experiments and explorations in Aotearoa New Zealand. More →
Solar panel bird box
A bungee bird feeder that drew us to The Balcony Gardener, but the solar powered bird box piqued our interest. Why would a bird need a solar panel?
Read more →Lazy veggies: Perennial Vegetables
Recurring vegetables grow year after year without replanting, a lazy gardener’s dream.
Read more →Save water and your plants with garden gadgets
Checking out the latest garden gadgets and technology.
Read more →A Garden of One’s Own
Highlights from a slide show of some great gardens by some great writers on wowOwow: Joan Juliet Buck Marlo Thomas Judith Martin
Read more →Homegrown Evolution
What a great way to upcycle pallets and create a garden worktable, from Homegrown Evolution found via Cool Tools. This site’s full of great projects and ideas for garden geeks and geek gardens, such as Farm in a Box Aquaponics and vertical microgardens.
Read more →How to Make a Bicycle Garden Box
Bicycle Window Box- For the transient gardener. – More cool how to projects urban research, mobile, transient, bicycle
Read more →Gardeners pedal to keep water flowing at Chelsea
from Reuters via Scientific American By Farah Master LONDON (Reuters) – An experimental garden that uses exercise bikes to water plants is about to make the gentle art of gardening much sweatier, its designers said on Monday. … “We are going to have people cycling on the bikes throughout the show,” Gerardine Hemingway, who designed the garden with her husband Wayne, told Reuters at the world famous show in west London.
Read more →A Food Revolution in the Making
Today, home gardening is on the rise, but most Americans still know very little about where their food comes from, and even less about how the changes in temperature and precipitation associated with global warming may alter national food production.
Read more →Pairing Leaves and Letters
From a thoughtful “leaflet” on leaves and letters written and designed by Janine Vangool , who looks at a tree and sees typography.
Read more →Seed Card Business Card
This inspired business card is part seed paper, part card paper. Tear off seed paper and plant it, then use the remaining part as a flag with plant info on one side and the cardholder’s contact info on the other. Have previously marveled at the following growing cards:
Read more →Windowfarms NYC
Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray are farming window art and crowdsourced R&Diy solutions for environmental issues.
Read more →Links for 16 April 2009
Today we found Shoji-style solar outdoor lighting from IKEA; the best materials for a school garden bed, VeggieTrader, OOOOBY, and a vertical gardens art exhibition.
Read more →Seatoun Weather
