Posts by Evelyn Park

If you’ve priced compost, fertilizer, or raised bed soil lately, you already know how this goes. You head to the garden center for “just a few things,” and next thing you know, you’re...

Somewhere between the kitchen and the trash can, most homesteads lose a little money every day. Not piles of money, mind you. But enough that it adds up. A cardboard box gets tossed. A pasta...

The best sunburn remedy might already be growing in your backyard. You spent all Saturday morning in the garden. Weeding the tomato beds. Transplanting those peppers that were getting leggy in...

There's a reason potatoes have kept families alive through wars, famines, and long, cold winters for centuries. Plant a single pound of seed potatoes, and by season's end you can dig up ten pounds or...

You're standing over the trash can, orchid in hand. The last flower dropped weeks ago. The leaves have gone soft and leathery. A couple of the roots look like wet gray noodles. And that little...

I bought a single Golden Pothos at a Kroger checkout line in 2009. It cost me $4.99. It wasn't even on my list that day — I just liked how the leaves spilled over the side of the pot and figured,...