Forming an intimate connection with my forest garden and seeing how it changes over time has taught me a lot. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Imagine your backyard as a lush habitat of flowering and fruiting trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and vines made vibrant with the sights and sounds of buzzing insects, butterflies, hummingbirds, and ...

A new study published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management “Significant mortality of old trees across a dry forest landscape, Oregon,” found that older larch and ponderosa pine are suffering ...

My goal was to plant a few fruit trees in a sheltered spot on the south side of my home. That led to an interest in orchards and then to forest gardens and the symbiotic relationships of plants. Of ...

Working our way down from the top storey, the final two layers of a forest garden are the herbaceous perennial layer and the root zone, the rhizosphere, plus the climbers. I do not plant many roots ...

On an overcast Saturday morning, staff and volunteers gathered at the Early Learning Center and Laboratory Preschool, both located on the University of Delaware’s Children’s Campus. With shovels and ...

Four yards in the northwest Champion Forest area are presented for touring on Sunday, April 26, from 1 to 5 p.m. by the Champion Forest Garden Club. This year’s backyard garden tour includes a wide ...

Berry bushes and squash vines, apple and pear saplings, and inches-high corn plants growing are envisioned to blossom into an “edible forest garden” in urban Cincinnati for the benefit of joggers, ...