We have truly enjoyed our school garden and the wonderfully fresh and flavorful vegetables and herbs it has produced! Shortly after the start of the new school year, we held a family picnic. Everyone was asked to bring a dish.

With the help of our resident gardener, mom, and chef extraordinaire, Melissa Hall, the Garden Club made a tasty recipe to share:
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Kid Power's Veggie Time Gardens have flourished yielding thousands of tomatoes, zucchini, watermelons, cantaloupes, beans and basil. Thanks to Burpee Home Gardens we have been able to participate in three Farmer's Markets throughout the summer and will continue to do so through the fall.

As our Summer Time Veggie Time program came to a close, our students were....

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Jeff Goldblum once said, “Life…uh…finds a way.” When he said it he was talking about genetically engineered female dinosaurs whose DNA was extracted from an ancient mosquito and who somehow evolved rapidly to breed within the supposedly controlled confines of Jurassic Park, but it’s a useful line if you think about it. For in....

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Oh my poor garden. I have enjoyed having a little balcony garden in Houston, Texas, over the last few months, but I have given up hope that it’s doing anything worth sharing. The peppers have wilted or not grown at all, the basil never grew back after picking it once,....

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I love my job. I really do. I travel all over creation and back, to tell the stories of people and places doing great things for the planet through gardening. Not a bad gig, I’ll admit. But variety is the spice of life, and once in a while, we all need a break from the rigors and routines of our everyday life. For me, that near-daily grind means one airport after....

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