If you are looking to harvest more homegrown food in your garden, why not take a note from nature and grow like a forest? In the wild, plants grow in complimentary layers to maximize space and ...

Lincoln Smith's 10-acre food forest is next to a gas station and a church off a highway in Bowie, a reclaimed cornfield that ...

Modern gardening often involves weeding, turning the soil, fertilization, and pest control. But permaculture is the practice of growing a garden with the least amount of intervention possible, relying ...

There’s a park in Mattapan, and it’s … edible. It’s a quarter-acre “food forest" — a formerly vacant lot now filled with fruit trees, berry bushes and mushrooms. Unlike community gardens, food forests ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In a couple of years, local residents will be able to regularly collect free fruits and vegetables ...

This is the first in a series “Forest Plan in Action.” For Forest Supervisor of the North Carolina National Forests James Melonas, the more than a million acres of land that make up the Nantahala and ...

Schoolchildren and teachers from Tiruchi engage in hands-on farming at GREENS Biodiversity Sanctuary, learning to transplant ...

We're back with a feature from one of our friends in the WBUR newsroom as Team Common works on some longer term projects. In May, a new park opened in Mattapan, and, get this… it’s edible. The ...