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My Great Outdoors: April's Aromatic Herb Beds

Name: April Location: Long Beach, CA Type of space: Herb and vegetable garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I love being able to go outside and watch my vegetables and her...

My Great Outdoors: Paula's Pizza Patio Makeover

Name: Paula Location: Matteson, IL Type of space: Outdoor patio Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: For Father's Day this year, my mother and I decided to go all out for my pizz...

My Great Outdoors: Melissa's Garden Challenge

Name: Melissa Location: Greenbelt, MD Type of space: Balcony Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I love to garden and produce my own food but I live in a condo. The space is sma...

My Great Outdoors: Lauren's Middle Eastern BBQ

Name: Lauren Location: Los Angeles, CA Type of space: Backyard garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: My family hosted a backyard BBQ to celebrate my recent graduation. Sinc...

My Great Outdoors: Amelia's Community Garden Plot

Name: Amelia Location: Washington, D.C. Type of space: Community garden plot Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I am a foodie and a longtime container gardener, so I was thrill...

My Great Outdoors: Erin's Edible Balcony

Name: Erin Location: Ames, IA Type of space: Balcony Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I wish I could live out here constantly! Most of the balcony taken up by the plants, but...

My Great Outdoors: Maria's Companion Planted Patch

Name: Maria Location: Edmonton, AB Type of space: Garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: This is my second year trying out this thing called gardening. I have switched from ...

My Great Outdoors: Anna's Outdoor Vegetarian Feasts

Name: Anna Location: Cambridge, MA Type of space: Barn Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: A few years ago our parents bought a falling-down barn in West Tisbury on Martha's Vin...

My Great Outdoors: Casi's Lush Garden and Dinner Deck

Name: Casi Location: Philadelphia, PA Type of space: Back deck Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I grew up surrounded by gardeners and when we moved to the big city, I wanted ...

My Great Outdoors: Kate's Gift of a Garden

Name: Kate Location: Washington, D.C. Type of space: Urban garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: My name is Kate and I’ve lived in and around the District of Columbia my...

My Great Outdoors: Sue's Summer Kitchen Garden

Name: Sue Location: Vancouver, BC Type of space: Garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: We share a home with my 90 year old Father-in-Law. We live in the basement and so whe...

My Great Outdoors: Victoria's Roof Deck Vegetable Patch

Name: Victoria Location: Somerville, MA Type of space: Roof deck Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: We live in Somerville, MA, and our condo building has a lovely roof deck spa...

My Great Outdoors: Jes's Suburban Farm

Name: Location: Type of space: Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: We bought the house 13 months ago, and I could not wait to start gardening. The yard had good bones, includin...

My Great Outdoors: Bruce's DIY Rooftop Garden

Name: Bruce Location: Wicker Park, Chicago Type of space: Garage rooftop vegetable garden Last week, we profiled Heidi and Art's rooftop garden, and today, we're touring the garden of their neighbor...

My Great Outdoors: Cecilia's Father's Day Al Fresco Feast

Name: Cecilia Location: Anaheim, CA Type of space: Backyard Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoyed it: It's Father's Day, and officially the first day of summer, so we had dined al f...

My Great Outdoors 2009: Show Us Your Outdoor Meals

Are you eating, cooking, or growing food outdoors this summer?Whichever it is, we want to see it! Show us your outdoor meals! If you are doing anything at all with food outside this summer, we want to...

My Great Outdoors: Mark's Grilled Pizza on the Balcony

Name: Mark Location: Portland, Oregon Type of space: Balcony Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: The winter weather in Portland forces us indoors for a good chunk of the year, s...

My Great Outdoors: Margaret's 2-Balcony Kitchen Garden

Name: Margaret Location: Chicago, IL Type of space: Wooden balcony Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I fell in love with this apartment because it has two balconies, a cooler ...

My Great Outdoors 2009: Heidi and Art's Green Oasis

Name: Heidi and Art Location: Wicker Park, Chicago Type of space: Backyard and rooftop Some 20 years ago, Heidi and Art pulled their Airstream trailer right into their new home: a former disco in Ch...

My Great Outdoors: Jennifer's Edible Container Garden

Name: Jennifer Location: Long Beach, California Type of space: Apartment balcony Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: Apartment dwelling often limits a person to creating a garde...

My Great Outdoors: Janice's Raised-Bed Garden

Name: Janice Location: Marlborough, MA Type of space: Outside garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I have moved from California to Massachusetts. I decided to take advant...

My Great Outdoors: Weeknight Dinner on the Porch

In Ohio and other northern parts of the country (and the world) you should never take nice weather for granted. We are purely indoor creatures for most of the winter and early spring, so the gorgeous ...

A Visit to the Food Network Good Food Garden
New York

Last week we spent part of the afternoon exploring a new, improved community garden in Harlem. It was a rundown plot of land, but now, thanks to a Herculean renovation by the Food Network, Share Our S...

My Great Outdoors: Katie's Fresh Back Door Garden

Name: Katie of goodLife {eats} Location: Rio Rancho, New Mexico Type of space: Backyard Garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I do so much cooking and love fresh veggies that...

My Great Outdoors: A Raised-Bed Garden in Early Summer

With all of the gardening, outdoor eating, and grilling this month, I figured I should show you my own garden. (You can see Sara Kate's country garden here, too.) This is a big year for me and my husb...

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