gardening
Scientists Have Created a Plant That Grows ‘Egg and Chips’
The invention is actually a dual-cropping plant that grows both eggplant (that's the "egg") and potatoes (chips—geddit?). Those horticulturalists sure do love their wordplay!
How Urban Gardening Can Save Black Communities
A new documentary shows how planting the seeds of social change begins with knowing where your food comes from.
This Tone-Deaf Ad Ridicules “Freaks” Who Grow Their Own Vegetables
A lot of people are less than thrilled with a new Woolworths ad wherein Australian fitness guru Michelle Bridges implies that people with vegetable gardens are weirdos who eat dirt.
We Spoke to the Guy Who Sells Cannabis Grow Kits for Kids
Greg Lonsdale wants kids to learn about hemp, open up debate about weed legalization, and find a solution to the fossil fuel crisis, all at the same time.
Dirty Work: Making Pickles and Herbed Honey with Jake Nemmers of Estela
We invited Jake Nemmers of NYC restaurant, Estela, to stop by our MUNCHIES garden to pick some herbs and vegetables and get buck wild in the kitchen. The final result is your itinerary for dinner tonight, no garden required.
Welcome to the MUNCHIES Garden
We’re inviting some of our favorite chefs, bartenders, and personalities in the world of food and drink to come and treat our garden like their very own edible playground.
This Chicago Jail Farm Grows Tomatoes and Restaurant Cooks
The Sherriff’s Garden program at Cook County Jail allows nonviolent felons to maintain a two-acre farm, complete with a beehive, while preparing them to re-enter society as well as the job market.
Abz From 5ive is Selling His Brit Award on eBay to Fund Gardening Tools and He is Better Than Us All
Forty years after John Lennon sang "imagine no possessions", Abz has finally embodied that truth.
Underwater Agriculture: The Scuba Divers Growing Crops in Bubbles Under the Sea
A scuba diving company in Italy wants to create a garden under the sea.
Astronauts Are About to Eat the First Vegetables Grown in Space
Today, astronauts aboard the International Space Station will sample the first vegetable ever to have been grown in space: red romaine lettuce.
How a Chicken Restaurant Saved a Schoolyard Farm from Closing
After losing its funding, the schoolyard farm at Escuela Inglesa Kent in Mexico City was prepared to shut down. But a local restaurant soon came to its aid, proposing a symbiotic relationship between the two.
This Rooftop Garden Is Feeding Atlanta's Homeless
The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless maintains a rooftop garden of 80 colorfully painted raised beds of tender lettuces, collard greens, kale, chard, carrots, strawberries, and more tended by (and providing work experience for) the hundreds of...