Georgian Leads American Community Gardening Association

Soil toil wasn’t Cathy Walker’s groove. “I was a materialistic person,” she said. Then she got a job with University of Georgia cooperative extension. Walker recalls, as she got started, returning to the office with her trainer. “She would be all dirty. That wasn’t me. My boss would say, ‘So, Ms. Walker, where have you…

D.C. A Banana Republic?

No Doubt! Don’t ever let anyone say you can’t grow your own bananas at home in the Nation’s Capital. I decided three years ago to roll the banana dice and bought a dwarf variety. I put it in a pot. It grew heartily. I put it in a bigger pot, and then an even bigger…

Garden Poetry Book, Ecology Art (She-Mantis Chronicle)

In dynamic light verse and alluring images, She-Mantis Chronicle: Prey, Wait, Procreate portrays the incredible life and times of an apex garden insect. “The she-mantis has come/Leggy and lithesome/Summer turning autumn/A pang in her tum … .” Author: John A. Bray’s writing has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times and The Saturday…

Coal Camp Beans: A New Market Quest

Lewis Jett, an associate professor of horticulture at West Virginia University, believes there’s an untapped market for heritage beans, mountain beans with a deep connection to Central Appalachia, beans that might give a bit of a boost to the local economy and provide a tastier and more nutritious alternative to the prevalent commercial “green beans.” It’s a difficult equation to solve.