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Gone Wild: How to Grow Vegetables in the Middle of Nowhere
As an urban gardener with two measly window boxes to my name, my most vivid daydreams involve waltzing out to a vegetable garden to find tomatoes and salad greens going gangbusters. There'd be a peach...
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5 Favorites: Classic Oil Lanterns
An entertaining essential for post-sunset affairs: here are our top five oil lanterns for the stylish camper. Above: Toast's Storm Lantern is made in Germany from blue powdercoated steel with a glass...
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Design Sleuth: Exotic Tropical House Plant
Yesterday on Remodelista we featured an Antwerp bed-and-breakfast establishment that unapologetically celebrates a style we think of as faded glory meets Wes Anderson. Essential to the Boulevard...
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The New Superfood?
A new ancient grain is edging out quinoa as a life-extending superfood (at least in my house): amaranth. Amaranth and quinoa both are high in protein, can be milled into flour (a complex carbohydrate...
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Fisher Blacksmithing Tools for the Gardener
What do you get when a blacksmith from Montana discovers a passion in gardening? A line of gorgeous, hand-forged, heirloom-quality garden tools. Above: Made in Bozeman, Montana, by Tuli Fisher (Fisher...
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5 Best American Peaks to Climb
Our friend Jason Heaton over at Gear Patrol has rounded up a list of the five best American peaks to climb. He writes, "Moutaineering can be an intimidating sport to get into: all that gear, the...
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DIY: Amaranth Banana Bread
The only problem with my grandmother's banana bread—perhaps the most delicious thing I ever tasted, by the way—is that a more accurate description of it would have been banana cake. With white flour,...
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Required Reading: Rock the Shack
In Rock the Shack: The Architecture of Cabins, Cocoons, and Hide-Outs, Sofia Borges and Sven Ehmann describe how for the first time, city dwellers outnumber people living in rural areas. The antidote...
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Roof Garden: Cottages in the Mill Valley Forest
On a steep, wooded lot in Mill Valley, California, the challenge was to add two studio spaces—one for an artist, one for yoga—without disturbing the soaring redwood trees surrounding an existing main...
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How To Stay Alive in the Woods
This handsome reprint of Bradford Angiers' 1965 classic How to Stay Alive in the Woods has been popping up on shop shelves lately and it's caught our eye, too. The guide is full of straightforward,...
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Back on the Grid: 11 Labor Day Obsessions
Snoop Dogg is a gardener (who knew?), Picasso's house and garden are for sale, and we almost missed it all because we spent the week in The Wilderness: Camping this weekend? Bundle up and eat well....
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5 Books to Read in a Hammock Today
Last lazy weekend of summer? Here are five books good enough to keep you awake even while you're lying in a hammock: Above: Photograph by Erin Boyle. Here are cocktail-friendly plants from the garden...
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Take the El to 46th Street and Get Off at the Farm
For a long time, a weed-clogged vacant lot in the shadow of West Philadelphia's elevated train tracks looked so much like the sad, forgotten sliver of land it was that it was practically a cliché....
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Ask the Expert: How to Create a Beautiful Edible Garden
The steps to creating a kitchen garden sound deceptively easy: build some raised beds, plant vegetables, harvest. Recently when we featured LA garden designer Art Luna's work, he revealed his secrets...
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Self-Watering Terracotta Planter by Joey Roth
Good news for the slackers among us: a self-watering planter. Designer Joey Roth's self-watering terra cotta planter does require filling with water once in a while but that's it. Plants are placed in...
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Herb Fever: A French Alchemist at Market
Our friend Mimi Giboin just got back from a trip to France (she was visiting her parents, who live in the town of Royan on the southwest coast). Lucky for us; she pulled out her camera and took some...
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Beautiful Plant Pots from Putikmade
You can never have enough ceramic vessels. At least this is true in Sweden, where most every windowsill is covered in potted plants (we have wide sills due to thick house walls). Here is a nice...
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A Bohemian Grove in the Napa Valley
As a child, I would walk down the street awarding points to each house and garden I passed. I had completely forgotten about this habit until I realized that when I moved to the Napa Valley, I had...
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DIY: How to Save Seeds for Next Year
I'm the first to remind friends that we've still got three weeks of summer to bask in, but in the garden there are signs of a shift in the season. As crops begin to go to seed, rather than bemoaning...
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Gardenista Giveaway: 66 Square Feet, A Delicious Life
"One woman, one terrace, 92 recipes" is how Brooklyn gardener Marie Viljoen describes her brand-new cookbook. Her tiny 66-square-foot edible garden, planted in containers on her fourth floor terrace,...
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