Mark Frauenfelder | posted on August 4, 2008

Several past U.S. presidents had vegetable gardens on the White House lawn. Eleanor Roosevelt started a victory garden on the White House lawn in 1943, which encouraged millions to do the same in their own front yards. When WWII ended, home gardeners were producing 40 percent of the United States’ produce. …read full discussion

Mark Frauenfelder | posted on July 2, 2008

Erik Knutsen, co-author of The Urban Homestead, was interviewed on Los Angeles’ KABC news about his and his wife Kelly Coyne’s urban vegetable garden. …read full discussion

Mark Frauenfelder | posted on June 30, 2008

guerilla gardening in Tokyo from Kirainet.com.

 Look at the girl in the picture, she is planting some tomatoes in little corner between two roads in the middle of Tokyo. Isn’t it amazing? She cares about that little place of land lost in Tokyo’s immensity, and what is more amazing is that she doesn’t seem worried about people or dogs destroying her tomatoes and her lavender.

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