catapult magazine

Items tagged gardening

• Tasting the good life

  As small farms around the world are succumbing to corporate agriculture, a southwest Michigan couple is embarking on the road of the small-scale farmer for the first time. An interview and photos tell their story and explain more about Community Supported Agriculture.

• Offering hope for local food sources

  In his first year as a CSA farmer, the author is grounded in the faith values that sustain his hard work.

• It can still be done

  One person's story shows one path to self-sufficiency.

• Learning to see the sprouting

  A child's wonder at spring is inspiration to be amazed.

• Garret

  Sometimes our neighbor really is the person right across the lane.

• The Little House life

  On skills, creativity and dependence.

• Getting away

  Experiencing other cultures can offer a window into what may be lacking in our own.

• Cycles

  A tour through the creation and destruction inherent in the process of finding home.

• Outdoor heart

  Deconstructing garden admiration reveals a longing for self expression.

• Black gold

  The discipline of composting makes a garden grow.

• The tasty tomato

  Pondering a summer fruit in the middle of winter.

• Renewal in the city

  A review of the book The Urban Homestead by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen.

• Life from scratch

  A life tapestry woven of baking bread and growing food and bearing children.

• What I made

  Chronicling one week of creating something out of something by hand.

• Habits of the hands

  Spring rolls around again with broken earth and broken promises.

• All tensed up with someplace to go

  What to do when the system's getting you down...even in your sleep.

• For life

  The journey toward a local food diet.

• Wallflower

  A word from the sidelines, with a pitchfork in one hand and a trowel in the other.

• Not the words, but the voice

  On the permeable boundary between a Chaim Potok novel and a summer internship.

• Defining community with permaculture

  From biodiversity to human diversity.

• Inheritance

  Scanning generations past for the legacy of growing things.

• Beware of planting Barbie corn

  Lessons from an experimental garden in Africa.