Article List
DateSubjectAuthor
06/12/2014 Scenes from a Garden to be on the Midsummer Night's Dream Garden Tour
Robert Opel (a photographer, artist and member of Loving Garland Green) just sent me a couple of photographs he took of my garden after our meeting on Monday.... 		Liz Berry
06/12/2014 Margie, Yard Art and More
Margie Rodgers mowing the Garland Community Garden at 4022 Naaman School Road June 11, 2014 One great thing about belonging to a community group like Loving... 		Liz Berry
06/11/2014 More Lessons from My Garden: Cabbage Worms and Grapes
Image courtesy Alton N. Sparks Jr. University of Georgia Cabbage Worms and the Ecosystem--Where do our priorities fit? This morning Charlie announced that... 		Liz Berry
06/10/2014 Add Another $8 to the Blackberry Bounty
June 10 marks another Blackberry bounty from the one incredible bush. This afternoon I picked 1 and 1/3 pounds. Adding to it the 2/3's pound of blackberries... 		Liz Berry
06/10/2014 Charlie's Tomatoes will be featured on the June 21st Garden Tour
Crop Record for Charlie's Garden June 9: 3 large tomatoes and 9 cherry tomatoes weighed in at 1 1/3 pounds! At a current market value of $1.99 for vine ripe... 		Liz Berry
06/09/2014 A Midsummer Night's Garden Tour in Garland
A Midsummer Night's Garden Tour - Saturday, June 21st - 6PM to 9PM hosted by Garland Urban Farmers and members of Loving Garland Green Even if you don't... 		Liz Berry
06/09/2014 More on the Incredible Ever-Producing Blackberry Bush
June 7 saw my third formal harvest of the blackberry bush in my front garden. "Formal" means that I put them in a container and weigh them. (I haven't been... 		Liz Berry
06/03/2014 Blackberry Harvest Continues
June 2, second Blackberry harvest yields 37 ounces of blackberries--about 2 and 1/4 pounds. At today's commercial price of $3.98 for 12 ounces the dollar value... 		Liz Berry
06/01/2014 The Beginning of the Great Pomegranate Experiment
Photo Wiki Commons - Courtesy Augustus Binu The Pomegranate is officially classified as a berry which originated in Iran. Pomegranate seeds provide 12% of the... 		Liz Berry
05/31/2014 Blackberry Harvest Has Begun
Blackberries from my garden today weighed in at 1 and 1/2 pounds. Current Market Value: $7.96 [Today at the grocery store blackberries are selling $3.98 for... 		Liz Berry
05/12/2014 So you want an urban garden: Where do you begin?
Crystal Carel, a Garland resident, plants her urban garden as Liz Berry watches. Crystal's urban garden is contained in a 4' x 7' x 8 in high wooden bed. Her... 		Liz Berry
05/10/2014 First Month Anniversary of the Garland Community Garden
Sometimes when I visit the garden I become impatient as I note all the things left to do (create sand paths, put more signs in, get more citizens involved to... 		Liz Berry
05/09/2014 Assessing the Damage at the Garland Community Garden and a Theft
View of my greens garden after the rain. Hurrah for the rain! __________________________________________________________________ Report from the Winding... 		Liz Berry
05/08/2014 Urban Gardening -- Perhaps the Ultimate in Social Cure-Alls
Urban gardening can cure many things that may ail residents in a community. Gardening will improve gardener's awareness of: healthy fresh food and thus... 		Liz Berry
05/03/2014 Keyhole Farm Donation Installed Saturday May 3 at the Garland Community Garden
Keyhole Garden 4022 Naaman School Road - The Garland Community Garden Leon Smith, proprietor of Keyhole Farm, generously donated one of his lovely keyhole... 		Liz Berry
05/02/2014 The Anyone Can Do It Urban Farming Method
The Loving Garland Green Urban Farming Method Also known as the “Anyone Can Do It Urban Farming Method” Note: We are almost finished with building an example... 		Liz Berry
04/29/2014 A Day of Gardening in Garland
Tuesday was quite a day as gardening goes. . . in fact, I gardened from 9 am to 6 pm. The Proof of Concept of Another Urban Garden Is Completed The day... 		Liz Berry
04/28/2014 Strawberry Harvest Begins at One Garland Urban Farm!
In an attempt to escape the drudgery of cleaning up my home for the meeting of Loving Garland Green tonight, I went outside to inspect the garden now occupying... 		Liz Berry
04/27/2014 Urban Farms Are on the Rise in Garland Texas
I 'll be sure to return here in June when the morning glories are climbing all over Carol and Daniel's fence. It's a verifiable fact that urban farms are on... 		Liz Berry
04/27/2014 Vol. 3 - Site 3: A visit with Leon Smith at Keyhole Farm
Another Volume from the Annual Keyhole Garden Tour April 25 - Clifton Texas Leon Smith and his brother Lyndell of Keyhole Farm have manufactured the first... 		Liz Berry