I have always loved gardening! My family moved a lot when I was growing up and I would always have to leave the gardens that I started behind. As I got older, I started container gardening so I could take my gardens with me! I love being able to provide that experience to folks that don't have a yard for traditional gardening.

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to photograph this local compost specialist currently studying at OSU as a graduate student. She and Amy (from our own Knowing Oregon team!) teach locals how to grow plants from seed in our own gardens.

Even though there are a lot of composting options out there, sometimes none of them are the right fit for our living spaces. Here are some alternatives for folks who can’t compost at home…

Since some parts of plants are poisonous, we learn to only eat the familiar parts of familiar plants. Unfortunately, this means that we get into habits of food preparation that waste food and leave our diets fiber deficient…

The first step in managing compost is realizing that it isn’t just “food garbage.” The residual parts of our food waste are complex and we need to build simple habits for how we think about them…

A potager garden is a garden that grows most of the herbs, fruits, vegetables and flowers for a household. It may even grow medicinal herbs. As we move into winter, this is a great strategy as we want to see something lovely and growing in the winter, but our growing capacity indoors is quite limited…