Are you an you an urban farm CSA member in 2013?
Urban Farm CSA members can save $50 off the price of any one of these Giving Tree Services:
Garden Coaching Session Home Landscaping Consultation Organic Lawn Fertility Treatments [...]
Giving Tree Gardens has been busy building some exciting Minneapolis landscapes this summer. This pizza-oven and natural stone patio installation is the latest and greatest portion of the newly renovated Permaculture-made-pretty backyard living space at the Loomis residence in NE Minneapolis.
Team work pays off and this project brought together a great team [...]
Here are some images of a butterfly enjoying the Joe Pye Weed in our gardens. Gotta love a friendly garden visitor!
The Parker residence in Edina, MN was once an empty lawn. Teeming with birds, butterflies, bees, and beauty, this backyard now reflects natures abundant bounty.
Two rain-gardens, a stone patio and stone walkways, and large butterfly gardens that all define this healthy home landscape were all installed only 3 years [...]
The Sorensen residence in St. Paul has become a refuge and home for bees and butterflies. Giving Tree installed these beds in May 2012, these pictures taken in July show the strength of good compost in the soil. Plants in these beds have grown with wild abandon and are [...]
Even a professional gardener needs a place to sink his hands in the dirt and unwind at the end of the day. Here’s a few pictures of the front yard gardens at my Minneapolis home.
Click on any image in the gallery below to enlarge.
Organic gardening and farming are based on the notion that when we build our soil’s natural fertility through composting we strengthen our environment and grow the land’s capacity to provide us with health.
It’s a pretty good system when you think of it. We throw [...]
Whenever a young person learns to garden, the future grows a little more green and healthy. When an entire school learns to garden together, sustainability sprouts in the imaginations of tomorrows community. This spring, Giving Tree Gardens worked with the Anoka-Hennepin School District to teach some of the basics of Earth- friendly food gardening to [...]
Is your block club, church group, or office place ready to go green? In this time of shrinking budgets we need to recognize the assets in our communities and help them grow into a sustainable future!
Community Design Forums are meetings where folks come together to create action plans for moving forward with changes that [...]
Giving Tree Gardens now offers our professional landscaping consulting services for all those do-it-yourself clients that would simply like a little advice. Many of our clients love to garden themselves, but want to have a professional on their side. In order to help folks get the most out of their consultation time, Russ [...]
