Pumpkins and winter squash are iconic vegetables of the fall garden.
Planting a Summer Garden in South-Central Texas Takes Planning
Tips on how to plan your harvest for the height of summer heat and drought.
5 Permaculture Steps for the Home Gardener
A permaculture system goes beyond the organic garden
Flowering Spring Plants
Spring greens and edible flowers are easy to grow in our South Central Texas spring.
Begin 2018 With A Unique Food Plan
Usher in the new year trying unusual fruits and vegetables that are in season — here are eight to try.
Eat Clean This Holiday Season
There are ways to maintain a clean diet and still enjoy this special time of year.
5 Steps to a Cleaner Diet
Getting into the habit of selecting food mindfully at each step of the eating process is a good way to adopt a cleaner diet.
South Texas Summer Crops: Ornamental and Tasty
Pick easy-to-grow vegetables for a productive summer of gardening. For South Texas residents, our climate allows for gardening pretty much year round — except in the height of summer. July and August are typically our hottest months, and not many vegetables can...
A Progressive Dinner Party Can Be Easy and Sustainable
At a progressive dinner a group of friends plan a meal together where successive courses are prepared and served at a different host’s home.
Treating Patients With Sustainable Living
When this doctor tells you to eat right and exercise, you only need walk outside the clinic door to take a step in that direction.
Sustainable Gardening: Resolve to Grow Your Own Health Food
For those who resolve to eat healthier or eat clean, your own garden is a great place to begin, and you will need an understanding of the healthiest plants to grow in Texas. Most are familiar with the super food lists, but many cool-climate berries, protein-laden nuts...
Sustainable Gardening: Green Gifts for Nature Lovers
BY JOSIE SEELIGSON Living gifts that perpetuate health and productivity are the ultimate in both sustainability and pleasure. Plants help improve air quality both indoors and out, and keeping green plants around is a surefire way to fend off winter blues by bringing...
Sweet on Citrus Gardening
AN ELEGANT FORM OF EDIBLE LANDSCAPING BY JOSIE SEELIGSON A few years ago I planted a small Satsuma orange tree in our backyard. Lovely evergreen leaves unfolded barren for a season or so, until finally, late one spring, delicate white flowers fragrantly blossomed near...
Managing Mother Nature’s Mood Swings
Mother Nature may not be stoppable, but the effects of her actions can be managed by employing some of these strategies. Extreme summers can plunge us all in a hot dusty wake of cracked earth, or alternatively, torrential downpours. During one severe drought several...
Hydroponics Flowing into Our River City
Mother Nature devised her growing patterns to utilize basic elements of sunlight, water, soil and nutrients. However, with increasing human populations and decreasing fertile farmlands, botanists look to synthesize these growing elements more efficiently. The...
Nature Related Events This Weekend in San Antonio
Bulverde Oaks Public Hike Saturday, April 2, 2016 open 9:00am-12:00pm (two tours at 10am and 11am) Bulverde Oaks Nature Preserve, NW corner of 1604 & Judson Rd. Come explore our Bulverde Oaks property and see some of the land Green Spaces Alliance is...
Sustainable Gardening: Bees & Their Keepers
Honey is the Reward A honeybee community is the mother of all matrilineages. One queen dominates 100,000 members, mostly unfertile working females. The guys have it good for a while, hanging around eating honey, trying to mate with the queen. She goes on just one...
Chef Elizabeth Johnson: Mindful Sourcing
Chef Elizabeth Johnson Shares Her Philosophy To Support Local Growers BY JOSIE SEELIGSON PHOTOGRAPHY BY JANICE THACH Gardeners can tip their shade hats to the Culinary Institute of America for nourishing a movement that has now seeped through our soil and grown strong...
