Jewish eco group Hazon launches sustainability kit
Starting at $79 for six kits, you and your family can start using products that can limit your carbon footprint.
Gardening
How your home garden helps the bees
Home gardens are by far the biggest source of food for pollinating insects, including bees and wasps, in cities and towns, according to new research.
How a Green Space Can Affect the Way You Work
An office of your dreams in the trees?
Bayer-Monsanto Agrees to $10B Settlement With Victims Poisoned by Roundup Weedkiller
Farmers, consumers, home gardeners are exposed to cancer-causing Roundup.
Tunisia’s lagoon farms and hanging gardens recognized as world heritage sites
Ramli agricultural systems in the lagoons of Ghar El Melh and hanging gardens of Djebba El Olia provide vital ecosystem services and traditional knowledge preservation.
Building a chicken coop? Go over this checklist
Since COVID-19 or corona struck there has been a race in countries like the US (where people have backyards) to raise chickens. One American university says don't do it.
Download the Victory Garden Handbook, circa 1943
Download the Victory Garden Handbook, circa 1943
Go mushroom, go mushroom! Fungi catching more climate change carbon?
Mushrooms are vulnerable to climate change, but it seems that fungi are working to store more carbon than usual as our planet heats up.
Tips for giving the ultimate kind of charity
Hydroponics farming is a good solution for growing food in countries where water is scarce. A USAID program gives training to local farmers so they can grow their own food and livelihood. This couple are from Jordan.
Ancient farm in Spain gets UN recognition
The UN recognizes the importance of ancient Spanish farming techniques. With climates similar to the Levant and influenced by North Africa, there is so much the Middle East can learn from Spain.
5 Ways To Use Air-Conditioner Water
Air conditioners pull water from the air, literally. It's distilled so not great to drink, but useful in other ways.
How to Spruce Up Your Backyard
Turning your yard into a stunning place where you can just forget about your worries and immerse in its beauty is not as difficult as you might think. With these tips and a bit of effort, you can spruce it up and transform it into becoming your absolute favorite spot.
Basil Bread Recipe
My basil plant now wants to reproduce, flowering almost from one day to the next. To keep it from going leggy, I pinch off the flowering tops and harvest yet more leaves. My answer to the basil overflow problem is to bake green bread.
NASA suggests these plants in your home to live longer
Back in 1989, NASA did a joint two-year study with the Associated Landscape Contractors of America on how to clean the air in entirely sealed environments, that is, spaceships. They concluded that to maintain good air quality inside a spaceship, astronauts should grow living plants to absorb and synthesize pollutants, in effect “scrubbing” the air. These are the plants they suggest.
My community organic veggie garden’s growing up well in Israel
Green Prophet writer details his experience growing food at his local community garden.