The Garden Harvesting and Clearing Bag You Wear

December 3, 2015

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The perfect gardener’s companion, The Gardener’s Hollow Leg is a hands-free debris and garden harvesting bag you wear so gardening doesn’t wear you out.

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Always at your side, it quickly and easily straps to your waist enabling you to carry … Read More...

Urban Gardens 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

December 1, 2015

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It’s that time of year again and we’re excited to present our 2015 Holiday Gift Guide, a curated list of 15 fun, functional, and fashionable items for the home and garden! Have you been naughty or nice? We’re not judging. Read More...

Complete Kit For Growing Herbs Indoors That You Only Water Once

November 21, 2015

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Many city dwellers picture themselves cooking gorgeous gourmet meals seasoned with fresh herbs plucked just moments before from the windowsill. But the time between deciding to grow herbs and actually cooking with them can be less inspiring.

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Watering the herbs … Read More...

Fiskars Kicks Off 2015 Project Orange Thumb Community Garden Initiative

November 18, 2015

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Community gardening cultivates many things: creative expression, beautiful outdoor spaces, civic and community collaboration, healthy hand-grown foods and sustainable living.

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As a leader in the garden industry celebrating and supporting community gardening, Fiskars launched Project Orange Thumb, a community garden … Read More...

Revisit Some of Our Most Popular Urban Gardens Facebook Posts

November 17, 2015

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Sometimes our Facebook page followers just love a post so much, it goes viral and the sharing just continues. Check it out–this post featuring photographer Simon Metz’s Italian rooftop garden photo, above, reached 996,352 people, received 79,637 likes, comments, and Read More...

With Biomimicry, Designers Turn to Nature to Reimagine Our Food System

November 14, 2015

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The common earthworm, termite mounds, and even the Texas Horned Lizard share something in common: they have all inspired innovative design concepts for Read More...

Growing Vegetables Indoors Twenty-One at a Time

November 6, 2015

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The urban greenhouse-less are not doomed to a life of seasonal CSAs (although they are a good thing) or wilted produce from the mega grocery store down the road (a bad thing.) Innovations of the gardening kind are popping up … Read More...

JetBlue’s New JFK Airport T5 Rooftop Urban Farm Serves Up Farm-to-Air Greens

October 29, 2015

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Spreading over 24,000 square feet, JetBlue’s new T5 rooftop urban farm offers a lush lounge where the weary airport commuter can breathe and relax after having endured the stress of endless security Read More...

Roving Portland Supper Club Goes Camping

October 22, 2015

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When some good friends of theirs organized a camping trip for 13 people at a private campsite at Cape Arago on the Oregon coast, Meadowlark partners Jen Datka and Emily Park knew instantly it would be the Read More...

How to Create a Beautiful Garden (Even If You Don’t Have Time to Care For It)

October 20, 2015

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Some say that there are two types of gardener: the true gardener and the tidy gardener. The true gardener has the time, patience and knowledge to care for a garden on a long-term Read More...

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