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10 Easy Pieces: Kitchen Compost Pails
The average American family throws away 20 pounds of food a month. And by "average," I mean me. This is the equivalent of stumbling upon a buried pirate's chest full of jewels and gold doubloons—and...
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The Inside Story on Dried Fruit: Healthy or Fattening?
Dried fruits are hailed by many as a quick and healthy bite for this "on-the-go" world. But hidden sugars and high prices are less than ideal. So we tried our hand at making healthy dried fruits at...
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Recipe: Quinoa Fruit and Nut Bars
It's winter, so we feel like hibernating. (Yes, that's a synonym for "snacking"—so what?) It's January, so we don't feel like giving up our doomed eat-healthier-in-2014 New Year's resolutions just...
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Garden Visit: What To Eat Now From a British Allotment
Vegetable growers in the UK love their allotments: ornamental kitchen gardens are for other people. With every plot a hymn to recycled chicken wire and corrugated iron, the wartime Dig for Victory...
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Week in Review: Eating From the Winter Garden
When we think of the garden's bounty, January is the last month that comes to mind. In this hemisphere anyway, everything is brown and gray and matted in a way that encourages us to turn back to our...
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Secrets of Success: Winter Gardening from Seattle Urban Farm
Today we're visiting a few edible gardens designed by Seattle Urban Farm Company, a member of the Remodelista + Gardenista Architect/Designer Directory, who also have some winter gardening secrets to...
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From Farm to...Brooklyn
Much of the food on the menu at Parish Hall in Brooklyn comes from a two-acre farm in the northeastern Catskills. At Goatfell Farm, permaculture methods are employed: fertilizers, mulch, and soil...
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Garden Visit: A Tropical Paradise in LA's Echo Park
The calm and peaceful feeling of seclusion from noise and neighbors envelops all visitors to LA jeweler Kathleen Whitaker’s sprawling and lush garden in the midst of the hustle and bustle of Echo Park,...
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DIY: Sunny Citrus Votives
Peeling a clementine, or any of the small breeds of bright orange tropical citrus, can inspire a certain kind of competitive edge. Can you get the peel off in one solid piece, or have you accumulated a...
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Love, Hawaiian Style: The Art of Lei Making
You’re probably familiar with edible gardens and ornamental gardens, but how about wearable gardens? My grandfather liked to surprise my grandmother with a white ginger lei every time they had guests...
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Design News: Ace Hotel Turns Tropical in Panama City
The Ace Hotel team has established a tropical toehold in Central America with its new American Trade Hotel in Panama City, a five-story landmark building with a colorful history. Built in 1917, the...
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Architect Visit: Recreating Old Hawaii on Kakapa Bay
If you look into the history of the Big Island—and architect Greg Warner has—you will find that when the land that once belonged to Hawaiian royalty passed into the private ownership, much of the...
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Shopper's Diary: Paiko in Honolulu
Honolulu is a city of juxtaposition. Although it's a thriving metropolis just minutes from wild jungles and untamed beaches, nature seems to seep into the most concrete of areas. And perhaps nowhere in...
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DIY: How to Hang a Staghorn Fern
I've debated adding a staghorn fern to my apartment for years. My reluctance stemmed largely from a fear that I'd get sick of the thing and/or manage to kill it before I had the chance. With prices for...
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5 Favorites: Vegan Antlers to Mount on the Wall
The team at Paiko, a garden supply and design shop in Honolulu, likes to refer to staghorn ferns as vegan antlers. If you're hoping to recreate a plant-filled homage to the mammalian bedecked lounges...
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Garden Visit: Fashion Designer Courtney Klein's Mission District Backyard
"It's kind of a little postage stamp, but coming from New York I think this feels gigantic and amazing," clothing designer Courtney Klein says of the backyard garden in San Francisco's Mission District...
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Steal This Look: An Urban Edible Garden in San Francisco
Earlier today we visited clothing designer Courtney Klein at home, in the edible backyard garden she and her husband created from scratch in San Francisco's Mission District. Courtney, whose Storq...
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Bouquet of the Week: Foraging for Hibiscus in Costa Rica
Somewhere along the line, the “tropical” arrangement unfortunately acquired a bad reputation. Images of banana leaves lining a vase and oddly stiff compositions pop into mind. The funny thing is, the...
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New Year, New Features on Gardenista
We're always looking for ways to make Gardenista easier to use, and we've introduced a few new features we want you to know about: 1. Browse Back Issues of Gardenista Above: Every week we run a new...
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7 Secrets: How to Save a Dying Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree
I suppose it is a good thing that houseplants don't have hands because it means they can't type. Otherwise my fiddle leaf fig tree would be writing a post for its blog right now, begging for help: "Get...
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