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Brazos Grows

Posted by Bill Erickson on August 29th, 2008

At GardenCamp we decided to start a community blog for local gardeners. Brazos Grows is now up and running!
There’s only a few posts now, but several gardeners in the community will be contributing to the blog.
The video above is some guerrilla gardening done in Downtown Bryan, and is also featured on Brazos Grows.

MyFarm - Have your backyard garden professionally managed

Posted by Bill Erickson on August 7th, 2008

Photo by D&J Huber

In San Francisco (of course), MyFarm is helping those who want an organic garden but don’t have the time or expertise to maintain it.
There are two different offerings: a Personal Installation is enough for their family, or they can have an Owner Member Installation, which is enough for MyFarm to sell to [...]

Book Review: Edible Estates

Posted by Bill Erickson on July 28th, 2008

Edible Estates is a great book about replacing one’s front lawn with an edible and useful garden. Instead of using the backyard, they are expressing their criticism of suburbia’s cookie-cutter grass lawn. It makes passerby’s think about why they use so much water, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and gasoline (cutting the grass) for something that really [...]

GardenCamp Recap

Posted by Bill Erickson on July 26th, 2008

Photo by Bill Erickson

On July 19 we held the first GardenCampBryan. We had a great gathering of gardeners and enthusiasts from around the Brazos Valley. Talks ranged from the basics of gardening to composting to xeriscaping.
Here are a few photos from the event. If you took photos there and use Flickr, tag them “gardencampbryan.”
We’re hoping [...]

Indoor Planter

Posted by Bill Erickson on July 9th, 2008

I really like this indoor planter over at ApartmentTherapy.

GardenCamp in Downtown Bryan

Posted by Bill Erickson on July 5th, 2008

On July 19 we’re holding the first ever (that we know of) GardenCamp! It is a barcamp-inspired unconference dedicated to gardening and sustainable living.
More details on the wiki.
If you’re in Texas, come and check it out. We’ll be having a BYOV (Bring Your Own Vegetable) lunch, where everyone puts vegetables into a big bowl and [...]