Building a raised bed is not as complicated as it seems! See some detailed plans and get ideas for other building materials.

Learn about Garden for the Environment with this self-guided walking tour.

A beautiful, illustrated at-home composting guide created by GFE Alum Lily Polsetin!

We get a lot of questions about how to troubleshoot a compost pile. Learn how to asses if you pile is doing what it should be, and how to fix common problems that may arise!

Here are the plans to build your own backyard 3-bin compost system!

Wanting to get a garden going but missing the supplies? We’ve got you covered with local nurseries and hardware stores that are open and offering services to get materials to you safely during the time of COVID-19.

Worm composting is an excellent way to use up vegetable scraps to make black gold - nature’s most amazing plant food. Learn how with these step-by-step guides.

We want to share our wealth of knowledge with you and harness our community’s energy around sustainable gardening, digitally! We will use this site for garden education, crowdsourcing and sharing and local learning .

What we are learning now is that the presence of green growing plants is even more important to building a living soil than the presence of decomposing organic matter. By planting a mixed perennial meadow under our fruit trees instead of constantly disturbing the soil with weeding, we are adding much more carbon to our soil over time than we could by simply mulching. While getting rid of the oxalis weeds is great, getting rid of the carbon dioxide that is driving climate change is much more important.

Scientists are telling us unanimously that our use of carbon based fuels is changing the balance of gases in our atmosphere. Of course, we have to stop burning so much fossil fuel. But we also have to start taking carbon out of the air and ‘sequestering’ or storing it somewhere else. Luckily, nature already has a way of doing this. It’s called photosynthesis, and green plants do it all day long. They take carbon dioxide out of the air and store it in their bodies. Their roots also carry it deep into the soil and store it underground.