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White House Garden Guaranteed to Feed City Residents for Years to Come
America's success has largely depended on its ability to farm and provide food for its people. Now this agricultural heritage is solidly rooted in the South Lawn of the White...
Inmates Reduce Sentence by Growing Thriving Gardens for Charity
With all their produce going to charities helping the poor, these Brazilian inmates have created a great green garden of life to benefit their community.
Gardening Giant Ortho to Drop Chemicals Linked to Bee Deaths
One of the largest home and garden pesticide makers in America is halting its use of a chemical blamed for killing honey bees.
Among several...
Gardeners Are Creating ’Hedgehog Highways’ To Save The Species
Brits are banding together over the garden fence to save the country’s favorite little spiny critters – by carving tiny holes in the bottom of those fences...
Pastor Turns Food Desert into Garden of Eden for the Poor
A North Carolina preacher was nominated for a top hero prize after he created a nutritional oasis in what had been a food desert.
Pastor Richard...
Floating Garden Cleans As It Grows In One of Most Polluted Waterways In US
The Gowanus Canal in New York City is notorious for being one of the most polluted waterways in the U.S. Imagine everyone’s surprise when,...
When a Solar Plant Becomes a Sculpture Garden, Tulip Power Blooms
Who says a power plant can’t be pretty?
This 100-foot-tall structure in the shape of a tulip can deliver clean, sustainably-produced energy, even at night,...
Homeless Shelter’s 80-Bed Rooftop Garden Cultivates Fresh Food and Job Skills
Shelter residents are harvesting organic produce to nourish themselves while growing their skills for an eventual return to the workforce.
The Metro Atlanta Task Force for...
How to Create a ‘Humane Backyard’ for Wildlife and Turn Your Ordinary Garden Lush
This summer, as you tend to your backyard, rooftop, lawn, or terrace garden, consider making it a place where local wildlife can find refuge, a...
Inmates Grow Along With the Gardens They Tend Behind Bars
When a correction officer set out a small garden at the prison where he worked, he may have planted the seeds of a brighter...
Homeless Man’s Garden of Hope Blooms on L.A. Median
"Los Angeles has many scruffy, unmanicured median strips, but there's one that draws attention for another reason: It's really nice, with constant improvements such...
Neighbors Buy New Truck for Elderly Lady Who Tends Community Gardens
When Becky Coger's truck was demolished last year by a drunk driver, residents of Pittsburgh's North Side knew that it wasn't just Becky losing...
Frida Kahlo’s Studio and Garden to Spring Up in New York
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s garden and studio will be recreated at the New York Botanical Garden next year, reports the BBC.
Opening May 16, Frida...
NYC Plants Hundreds of Curbside Gardens to Soak Up Storm Runoff
Some 250 gardens appeared suddenly along corridors like the one in Brownsville, Brooklyn, planted with flowers, grasses and small trees.
"In what officials have billed...
Garden, Soil and God: Miss. Soldier’s Recipe for Nobel Nomination
Randy Sandifer’s boyhood hate for the garden eventually transformed into a love and passion for the environment.
"Sandifer joined the Army Reserves in December 2001...
No Supermarkets, But 130 Community Gardens to Help Nourish a City
"Although Mike Devlin was trained as a lawyer, his love for gardening led him down an unexpected career path."
Devlin lives and works in Camden...
‘Hero’ Gardener Chased Runaway Car and Steered it to Safety
A resident spotted a car that had suddenly started rolling downhill towards a busy rush hour street in Bradford, England. She yelled to a gardener who...
Mexico City Roof Gardens Take Root to Combat Smog, Warming
In one of the world's biggest and most polluted cities, rooftop gardens are springing up in an effort to battle the smog, part of...
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden Rises From the Mud
A rejuvenated Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden has meant more visitors and volunteers at a facility that not long ago was on the verge...
By Planting a Garden, Community Changes The Neighborhood
With shovels, rakes, and hoes in hand, the women of a Mississauga housing complex transformed a vacant piece of land into a bountiful garden...