Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Forming an intimate connection with my forest garden and seeing how it changes over time has taught me a lot. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sweet cicely in shade of forest garden . Forest gardens are designed around layers of trees, shrubs, perennials and ground cover ...

Bloom designed this garden to grow food in Mill Creek, WA. So many plants that we enjoy—especially trees—are the gift of someone else’s foresight. A sapling in one generation becomes a landmark in the ...

Gardeners seeking lower maintenance and longer harvests are turning to forest gardens, which replicate natural woodland structures to produce food while supporting soil health and wildlife. These ...

I’ve seen it time and time again in my travels throughout Latin America – towering mango trees leaning over patches of banana and papaya, interspersed with little plantings of cassava here and there, ...

The dollop of acorn gel with fermented sweet potato greens looked like sustenance from an episode of Survivor when a volunteer first offered it to me, plated on a single shiso leaf. It tasted like ...

Working our way down from the top storey, the final two layers of a forest garden are the herbaceous perennial layer and the root zone, the rhizosphere, plus the climbers. I do not plant many roots ...

In the 1930s, an archeologist from the Smithsonian wrote a short paper remarking on the exquisite vegetation around First Nation villages in Alaska. The villages’ surroundings were filled with nuts, ...

My goal was to plant a few fruit trees in a sheltered spot on the south side of my home. That led to an interest in orchards and then to forest gardens and the symbiotic relationships of plants. Of ...