Gardening

Your overgrown backyard could be cleared without chemicals, and for a third of the cost of hiring a landscaping crew — a team of goats can do the job exactly how nature intended.

Gardens are blooming across the country, and while you’ll likely see plenty of roses and brightly-colored zinnias on porches and patios this summer, one much-hyped trend is very, very dark.

Charlotte's Stonehaven neighborhood already boasts a lush tree canopy. Residents are now working to welcome more wildlife with flowers, feeders and natural groundcover.

Silly gardeners. While we've been sweating and struggling in the summer heat, the smart folks at the NC Cooperative Extension Service have been coolly…

World renowned landscape architect W. Gary Smith designs gardens and landscapes that celebrate the relationship between people and plants. He’s designed…

One evening recently, I wasn't feeling well and wanted to get home from my job at Southminster. I knew a hard freeze was coming, and I needed to get the…

If you have friends who garden or have access to too much produce, you may be the recipient of their gleanings. Co-workers, acquaintances, neighbors come…

When you think of historic restoration, most times you think of those TV shows where they fix up old homes to look how they did in their heyday. But Peter…

We've all heard about the benefits of "eating local." Well, you can't get more local than your own backyard! If you haven’t planted yet, or even if you…

I bumped in to Nan Chase at the Blue Ridge Book Festival last May. The Asheville author was discussing her book, Eat Your Yard.Riding the crest of the Eat…