Apartment Therapy: GREEN IDEAS

NYC Event: How to Create a Green Roof Garden

New Yorkers and other urban dwellers without a backyard might think their gardening must be limited to a few windowsill pots, and the cool light of an Aerogrow. But if you've got a roof of any kind, y...

Try This: Newspapers as Placemats

Over at AT:LA, Abby posted 20 household uses for newspaper besides just tossing it in the recycling bin. Then, last night, we saw a food-related use that we thought we'd pass on to the Kitchn readers....

Ginkgo Organic Gardens in Chicago

When gardening season rolls around in Chicago, we tend to get a little restless. We curse our north-facing kitchen windows and shaded deck, where many a plant has gone to die, and half-heartedly brows...

Vegetable Gardens on Wheels: Food Map Containers

We saw these garden tubs on wheels over at AT:Chicago yesterday and thought you all might enjoy seeing them too. This is a very clever idea, and after all the years we've spent dragging huge pots back...

Gardening Questions for Jennifer: How Can I Plant a Variety of Herbs and Vegetables in a Container Garden?

We asked for gardening questions for kitchen gardening expert Jennifer Bartley. Here's an answer to two of your questions. Susmita asks: I have always had a brown thumb, but I would like to grow so...

Garden Spotlight: Chives

Chives are one of the easiest, prettiest things to grow straight off in the garden. They are splendid in containers, and they give some beautiful color - as well as delicious eating, of course. ...

Gardening Questions for Jennifer: Little Light and No Outdoor Space - What Can I Grow?

We asked you last week for your gardening questions for our friend and kitchen gardening expert Jennifer Bartley. Here's the first question - one that we've heard frequently from many of you! This is ...

1% for the Planet: Check Out the Check

We have finally done it. Hats off to Yvon Chouinard, our readers and advertisers. We've turned AT into an earth supporting machine. Click on over to Re-Nest, our green site for the home, and chec...

Good Product: Expanding Peat Pellets for Starting Seeds

Peat pucks! How did we not know about these before? In previous seasons we started seeds in little pots of dirt, carefully digging them up when they were ready to transplant. But that was one more bag...

Peaceful Valley Farm & Garden Supply

The first step in getting a garden ready for a new season is ordering supplies. I try to save seeds where possible from previous year's plants, and I have a pretty good collection of tools and such, ...

City Gardening: How Do You Deal With the Mess?

One of the biggest difficulties of city gardening is the mess of getting started. When you're gardening in pots and containers you need to fill them up, turn the earth, water it and plant seeds or sma...

Garden Month: The Weekend Gardener

This weekend we got busy in the garden - finally! We started seeds for planting later this month; we filled big containers with organic potting mix and transplanted the small herb plants we bought fro...

May is Garden Month at The Kitchn

It seems like many of you are gardening this spring and summer, and we're here to grow things right alongside. We're just getting our herbs, greens and radishes started this weekend... ...

Is That Grass Fed Beef In Your Pocket?

Has anyone bought meat from La Cense Beef? We're asking because the construction site across the street from the Apartment Therapy offices is covered in these posters directing passers-by to winagra...

Grow Your Own Alfalfa Sprouts: Cheesecloth Alternatives?

We've talked quite a bit this month about growing things. And if you're like us — a city dweller with no patch of dirt — hatching alfalfa sprouts is easy and gratifying. That is, unless you can't ...

Green Tips: Recycling Appliances

With Earth Day earlier this week, we're especially thinking about ways to be greener in the kitchen, such as recycling old appliances. Until recently, most unwanted appliances were simply dumped in la...

How Did You Celebrate Earth Day?

After urging everyone to get outside, take their own bag, and do something generally good for the planet yesterday, we feel compelled to report back. It was a gorgeous day, literally scented with cr...

Tiered Dessert Stand: Eco-Chic Ideas from Martha Stewart and Danny Seo for Earth Day

Unlike many of the websites out there touting things to buy, buy, buy to help be greener for Earth Day, Martha Stewart and body + soul come through with a great slideshow of inspiring ideas for going ...

What Are Your Gardening Plans This Year?

Look at those beautiful tiny seedlings! We saw this photo by Flickr member paul goyette and we were reminded of what a miracle it is every year when new things sprout and grow. Do you have similar spr...

Happy Earth Day 2008: Twelve Activities to Celebrate Earth

Happy Earth Day! What is Earth Day, anyway, and is it anything more than a marketing excuse to sell lots and lots of ostensibly green products? (Celebrate Earth Day! Buy a new set of "green" cookware....

Earth Day: Cork and Teak Cutting Boards

Just in time for Earth Day, we wanted to share two tree-friendly cutting board options: teak and cork. We'd never heard of cork cutting boards before ......

BYOB: Good Canvas Shopping Totes

If you aren't already bringing your own reusable tote bags to the grocery store, let us offer some inspiration. We bought this "Beet the System" bag at the Brooklyn Flea last weekend, and we're loving...

More Grocery Gloom and Doom: Organic Sticker Shock in the New York Times

Another article today on rising food prices, this time in the New York Times Business section. Sticker Shock in the Organic Aisles tells us that organic prices are rising rapidly, and the premium that...

Get Ready to BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag) to Whole Foods!

We saw this sign at our local Whole Foods yesterday, a nice reminder that the stores will stop using plastic bags on Earth Day, April 22nd. There will still be recycled paper bags at checkout, but the...

Company Spotlight: Kona Blue Water Farms

Personally, we think that sushi is pretty fantastic stuff, and apparently so a lot of people since its popularity worldwide has grown exponentially in the last decade. In fact, did you know that it's ...

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