By Bob Randall We vegetable gardeners face many months yet of blistering hot weather. With the passing of the solstice June 21, summer has officially just begun. And it won’t…
About this Project For my Girl Scout Gold Award Project, I decided to make bee boxes for Mason Bees. I had learned about how many bee populations were in decline…
It was a breezy morning on Saturday, April 21 and perfect weather for our Adopt-A-Garden kick-off. Over 70 volunteers, corporate partners, and community garden members joined forces to plant fruit…
Urban Harvest launches its Adopt-A-Garden program providing on-going education and materials to community gardens in underserved areas. Adopt-A-Garden will focus on gardens in the following Complete Communities: Acres Homes (Wesley…
The heart and soul of which are local farms and gardens. As a result of Harvey, farms at our farmers market experienced everything from loss in crops to minor property damage to…
Since the launch of our SNAP benefits program in mid-November, the Saturday Farmers Market at Eastside has seen an exciting growth in SNAP sales and customers. SNAP offers nutrition assistance to…
by Bob Randall, Ph.D. Originally published in the Houston Chronicle One big advantage of planting seeds is seeds rarely transmit diseases the parents had. Also, seeds take far less labor…
Reprinted from The New York Times, February 11, 2016 How the ‘Dirt Cure’ Can Make for Healthier Families BY ANAHAD O'CONNOR Dr. Maya Shetreat-Klein has a message for the parents…
Tis the season to shop local stocking stuffers for your friends and family. You can find all these at our Eastside Farmers Market every Saturday! Blue Heron Reaper & Ghost Pepper Salt,…
Together, Piggy Bank and The Butcher’s Ball collected monetary contributions for relief and recovery efforts in support of heritage breed pig ranchers in Texas impacted by Hurricane Harvey in 2017.…