Planting Resiliency During COVID-19
Thursday March 12th, 2020 is when things started to get weird. This was the day toilet paper began to disappear off store shelves. It was the day that worried, never-before…
Cucumbers & The Spring Planting Guide
When soil temperatures start to warm up above 60 degrees starting in mid-March, it is time to plant cucumbers. Cucumbers are gratifying: they are fast growing and provide an abundant…
Growing Lettuce in 2020!
Carol Burton - Director of Gardening Education at Urban Harvest I love to grow lettuce because it is easy to grow in any type of garden: school, container or backyard.…
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…