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 [...]
Giving Tree Gardens landscaping department offers year round garden and landscape maintenance services. Our landscaping maintenance crews are out maintaining our client’s organic gardens and landscapes from the time the last snow melts in the spring till the ground freezes again in the fall.
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Prayers can come true if you live them. A Lakota Sioux elder once told a group of folks I was sitting with that if you want to see your prayers come true you have to live them. What he said struck a chord with [...]
It’s so easy to fall in love with a garden. Imagine your garden as a new friend. You start off tentatively getting to know one another. Happy moments turn into beautiful days and soon enough you are greeting each other with gifts. A little help from a friend is always welcome, but with this [...]
Worms eat our food scraps and leave compost in the soil. Compost feeds the plants and the plants feed us. This winter the pre-schoolers at Anishinabe Academy in South Minneapolis are learning how this simple and respectful cycle works by growing worms fed with the kids own food scraps [...]
Giving Tree Gardens would like to welcome in the new year with a gift to all the gardening world!
Our newsletter, “The Seed” is nearly 3 years old, and with 33 informative issues currently in our archives, we thought it high time to make the archives a little [...]
These days it seems folks all around me are taking bold strides to “green up” their everyday lives. Whether we’re motivated to reclaim our health from the abominable agriculture and healthcare industries, or take back our wealth from the robber barons of the big [...]
