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A Weighty Matter: Our Neighbors in Need and Lucille’s Garden
Numbers are easy to throw around, unless the weight is one ton of food (or 2,000 pounds!) harvested and contributed from Lucille’s Garden to the Media Food Bank. To [...]
Climate Researchers Come to Tyler
Sometimes it’s the most unlikely organisms that can reveal the effects of climate change on our natural environment. Over the summer, Tyler hosted a duo of researchers in our [...]
These Seven Lives
It is October 22nd and we are at the Pollinator Preserve to host our final Pop-up Explainer Station for the season. Sharing this space and its inhabitants with our [...]
Your Garden as Medicine Cabinet and Supermarket
The following represents an exploration of historic and modern uses of herbal plants for health and wellness. We recommend that everyone consult with their doctor before using herbal remedies. [...]
Planting for the Future
During the 1840s the Painter Brothers, Jacob and Minshall, began to plant trees for a very specific purpose -- they wanted to study plants. These plants were the beginning of [...]
Something Wicked in the Garden
By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes - Shakespeare's ‘Macbeth’ The history of people and plants is a long one -- long, deep, and sometimes [...]
Spice up your Life: Plant, Harvest, and Eat Garlic
If there ever was a plant-it and forget-it vegetable for your garden, it’s garlic. Why? Because garlic is easy to grow, has a high success rate, requires little maintenance, [...]
Trees with High Ecological Value
Most trees you can grow at home will provide ecological value, but some more than others, particularly if they are native to your area. Beyond carbon fixing, air purification, water [...]