Great Tomatoes Every Year
Bob Randall with his May 2020 Harvest of backyard tomatoes. By Bob Randall, Ph.D. At our house we taste the wonderful bounty tomatoes offers us very spring. The reason is…
¡Las Rosas son dulces, las Violetas saludables!
Todos conocemos el refrán infantil, “las rosas son rojas y las violetas azules”, pero muchos no saben de las propiedades nutricionales que las flores comestibles entregan, además de ser un…
Mama Jo’s Scrumptious Sweet Potato Pies
Ingredients 3-4 medium sweet potatoes 1 can of evaporated milk (12 oz.) 1 stick of butter 2 tsp. lemon extract 6 large eggs 1 tsp. vanilla Instructions 1) Preheat oven…
Great Tomatoes Every Year
by Dr. Bob RandallEvery June since its inception, I have appeared at the Urban Harvest Tomato Fest to answer questions about growing tomatoes. We also rejoice in and taste the…
Flower buckets at Local Flora
Growing Cut Flowers in your Vegetable Garden
by Blas Espinosa, Naturalist, St. Catherine's Montessori Flowers can have a big place at the table and in the garden. For me, growing flowers at first was a little intimidating,…
Urban Harvest in the community
Volunteers weed in the Pollinator Garden at Blackshear Elementary It was a weekend in the garden and promoting local food in Houston. On Thursday, a group from Starbucks weeded,…
Gregory Lincoln’s Cultivated Classroom Archived in Smithsonian
Thanks to the efforts of The Garden Club of Houston, Urban Harvest's Cultivated Classroom at Gregory Lincoln Education Center has been accepted into the Archives of American Gardens, an archive maintained by…
Thanks, for Helping us Grow!
2018 saw a very productive year in Youth Education. From the birth of new school gardens, like Mading Elementary, to the actualization of long-term plans at schools like Gregory-Lincoln Education…
We Need More Pesto!
You know things are going well when your students are begging for more of your basil pesto. Hello there! My name is Allyson Schaefers and for this Fall semester I…
Growing Tasty and Healthy Food
Only with Organics can we grow the best tasting and healthiest food possible. The Law of Nutrition states; ‘When any organism is fed the highest nutrition possible, that organism will…