You are two minutes (or less) away from knowing how to do all these things.
- How to Make an Herb-Drying Rack
- How to Make Candied Mint
- How to Plant Garlic
- How to Make an Inexpensive Worm Bin
- How to Make Hot Pepper Powder from Your Bounty
- How to Make Caramelized Corn with Fresh Mint
- How to Side-Dress Your Plants
- How to Save Seeds
- How to Harvest Pears
- How to Harvest Carrots
- How to Harvest Potatoes
- How to Microwave Fresh-Picked Popcorn
- How to Use a Stirrup Hoe
- How to Build a Low Tunnel for Winter
- How to Make Biodegradable Newspaper Planting Pots
Here is a small selection of my published articles (plus here are my books). You may find something helpful here:
Rod Pittman’s Passion for Farming Never Grows Old
Young Inmates Doing Thyme in the Prison Garden
Today’s Most Unknown Agricultural Crisis
Sustainability: Coming to a City Near You
Don’t Take a Vacation from Your Principles — Check into a Green Hotel
Food as Art (Profile of Artist Norm Citron)
“Yes, Virginia, One Person Can Make a Difference” (A Day in the Life of a Gleaner)
How to Start a Community Garden on Public Land Near You
Expert Tips: Growing and Using Herbs (I ghost-wrote this for Williams Sonoma)
I also ghost-wrote all of these for U.S. News and World Report
If you are interested, here are more than three dozen videos I took of school, community, and food pantry gardens/farms:
Oglethorpe University Community Garden
Children’s Garden at the Atlanta JCC (again)
Preschool Garden at the Atlanta JCC
Dunwoody Community Garden at Brook Run
Peachtree Hills Community Garden
Elaine Clarke Center for Exceptional Children Garden
Clinton Community Garden (NYC)
Ed Bruske’s Front-Yard Garden 1 Mile from the White House
Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture: East Point (again) (Crop Mob)
Malachi’s Storehouse Food Pantry Garden
Children’s Garden at Atlanta JCC–used one spring for Malachi’s Storehouse Food Pantry
Children’s Garden at Atlanta JCC–how it ended up for the food pantry*
First Baptist Church in Sandy Springs, GA
North Springs United Methodist Church in Sandy Springs, GA
Jewish Family and Career Services Garden
Spruill Art Gallery Vegetable and Sculpture Garden
Decatur High School Community Garden
Dunwoody Community Garden at Brook Run (again)
Chattahoochee Nature Center’s Unity Garden
Little Nancy Creek Community Garden
Strong4Life Teaching Garden at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite
Harvest Farm at White Street Park (Suwanee, GA)
Chesnut Elementary School Garden
Malachi’s Storehouse Food Pantry Garden (again)
Decatur High School Community Garden (again)
Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture: Wheat Street Gardens
Malachi’s Storehouse Food Pantry Garden (again)
Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture: Wheat Street Gardens (again)
The Atlanta BeltLine Is Shutting Down This Community Garden? You’re Kidding, Right?