Urban Gardens

It’s Halloween in New Orleans, my town and America’s most haunted city. Skeletons are coming out of the closet and onto front porches. The city’s full of ghosts and goblins, but spirits of another kind are present all year round … Read More...

Young mother at #StrikeWithUs rally in New Orleans. Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton.

Young people across the globe are demanding that world leaders stop acting like children and take real action against climate change.

Posters at New Orleans #StrikeWithUs rally. Photo: … Read More...

Image via @LexiBella, Instagram.

From New York City to Berlin and beyond, artists take to the streets to claim unsanctioned public spaces to communicate statements about heated political and social issues, often impassioned pleas to the masses for action about … Read More...

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Have you recently installed a vegetable garden in your backyard, but it isn’t growing quite as well as you hoped it would? Perhaps you are noticing your neighbor’s flowers and shrubs are miles ahead of … Read More...

The same innovative minds that brought us the 3D printed concrete planter bricks I gushed about a while back have now applied their technical and design expertise on a larger scale in the creation of a 3D printed dwelling.

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Scorching summer heat waves are setting record high temperatures throughout much of the country and will continue in many regions for the rest of the season. Despite the weather, you can help your lawn and garden thrive in … Read More...

For gardeners and non-gardeners alike, here’s my curated collection of 23 gardening gifts for Mother’s Day—including some delicious finds for relaxation.

Mini Ceramic Planters on Bamboo Tray
Whether on a windowsill or tabletop, these small ceramic plant pots of different … Read More...

Here’s a civilized idea for getting away from civilization…or for hunkering down right in your backyard. Escape off-grid (or not) with Ecocapsule, an egg-shaped smart, self-sustainable mobile micro home powered by high-efficiency solar panels and a wind turbine. 

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In urban areas with limited outdoor space, you won’t typically find front gardens carpeted with the large, uniform, smooth lawns more commonly found in suburban neighborhoods. But a small area of lawn could work.

Why have lawns gotten a … Read More...

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Many of my favorite spaces reflect a stylistic blurring of the boundaries between indoors and out–gardens with outdoor rooms designed to replicate indoor spaces and interiors that merge with the exterior.

Outdoor rooms incorporate pieces traditionally considered for indoors: … Read More...