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How to Kill Fire Ants, Carpenter Ants, and Termites with Mushrooms (a...
If that title sounds too good to be true, it’s not. Over the weekend my friends Tradd & Olga invited me over for dinner (and after eating the wild mushroom dish that Olga served you can expect a...
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How to Get Your Neighbors Growing Natives
I’ve been thinking about guerrilla gardening lately. I’ve done it… but why not delegate and get your neighbors to do the work? If you’re a butterfly gardener, birder, or simply a lover of native plants...
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How to Use Fennel (or Dill) to Keep Caterpillars Off Your Vegetable Plants
I don’t do a lot of companion planting. I’m not saying it doesn’t work (and I’d love to hear your success stories) but other than being impressed by mycorrhizal fungi, I haven’t felt the need to find...
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How to Tell a Carolina Mantis Eggcase from a Chinese Mantis Eggcase (What’s...
The Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve is one of my favorite late-day stops when I need to get a nature fix. It’s about 20 minutes from my house and offers a range of habitats to explore — including...
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How to Be Even More Excited About Home Than Wherever You Vacationed (Garden...
Don’t get me wrong — I love vacations. Edisto Island in May was paradise and our family spent June bonding on a cross-country trip. One thing I learned on the way to California and back was that your...
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How to Grow and Use Achocha/Caigua (a Problem-Free Cucumber Substitute), with...
Organic gardening often produces healthier, more easily grown vegetables and fruits than the same crops grown with “conventional” methods. There are, however, a few crops that have a pouty reputation...
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How to Set Garden Goals & Go to the Organic Growers School
Fer is hosting a garden goals blog carnival at My Little Garden in Japan and oh my gosh, do I ever have a lot to do this year! I’ve included info about the Organic Growers School in March since it...
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How to Get Fuzzy Bees Drunk
We have Passiflora incarnata (maypop passionvine) growing outside our back door. I’ve written in the past about how to grow this native plant for its delicious fruit, but today I wanted to share a...
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How to Watch My Urban Farm Pecha Kucha Talk
What’s Pecha Kucha, anyway? You could describe it as TED Talks for people with short attention spans or a good way to get presenters to keep it short. Every Pecha Kucha is 20 slides long, 20 seconds...
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How to Identify Pests and Control them Naturally with Beneficial Bugs, Trap...
Consider this article “Sustainable Pest Control 101.” Once you’ve read this, you’ll be an expert at dealing with insects on the farm or in the garden. Photo Caption: Zinnias at the end of a food bed to...
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How to Read Eliza’s Edible Upcountry Article & More
April heralded my first (epic) case of writer’s block. I’ve never run so close on a deadline before, but fortunately my brain clicked into place at the last minute and you can read the result in this...
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How to “Permiculturefy” an Urban Farm
I often do or learn a heap of things at once and think I’m going to break it down into a series of bite-sized blog posts. It almost never happens — I post the first segment and then get too distracted...
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How to Feel Inspired by Ornamental Gardens
For me, guilty pleasure isn’t buying a bag of Doritos or reading People magazine (especially since I have no idea who most celebrities are these days). Instead, I feel sheepish when I grow plants...
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How to Find Eliza’s Beekeeping Article Online
My beekeeping article from the summer 2013 issue of edible Upcountry magazine is now available online. Many thanks to Carolina Honey Bee Company for hosting such fantastic classes. Our three hives are...
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Update: Public Permaculture Demo Garden Progress
When I founded the SC Upstate Permaculture Society I had no idea we’d be this popular, but we’re up to 644 members with multiple people joining each week. If you live in upstate South Carolina (or...
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How to Attend Hands-On Classes in Gardens, Kitchens, Forests, and Even a Late...
It’s here. The garden classes are in gardens, the cooking classes are in kitchens, the nature study is in forests, the raspberries taste like raspberries, and the snozzberries taste like snozzberries!...
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