High Yield in Small Spaces 

Carol Burton, Urban Harvest’s Director of Garden Education, shared tips for success for intensive gardening.  See a PDF of her slide presentation and the text from our Zoom chat. I’m always looking for people to talk about intercropping and intensive planting methods to make better use of space and for benefits such as nutrients, microclimates, […]

Pat Greer's Kitchen featured speaker for Houston Urban Gardeners

Preparing & Preserving the Pat Greer Way!

Pat Greer specializes in healthy raw vegan food. She sells prepared foods in her shop and at farmer’s markets, caters and years ago, founded Houston’s Oldest Organic Food Co-op–Central City Co-op. Pat makes a variety of fruit, nut & veggie-based cookie and cracker alternatives using a food processor and food-dehydrator.  She shared tips on how […]

Pat Greer's Kitchen featured speaker for Houston Urban Gardeners

Preparing & Preserving the Pat Greer Way!

Pat Greer specializes in healthy raw vegan food. She sells prepared foods in her shop and at farmer’s markets, caters and feeds the Dynamos!. She is going to share & demo some tips on how she prepares her snacks & meals. The speaker will begin at 6:30. Bring food to share, a drink, plate, utensil […]

Scott Snodgrass of LOAM Agronomics CSA

Scott is a co-founder of Loam Agronomics, a nearly 300 acre farm in Richmond, TX. They began offering  CSA Shares this past March with pick up locations all over Houston. We’ll hear about the farm, what they are planting in July & August and hopefully some tricks on managing in the heat. Loam Agronomics is […]

Integrating Animals into Row Crop Gardens

The history of the farm was always a place where animals and plants were rotated in the fields. The animal manure provided fertility for the plants to grow. In the last 75 years, farming has steadily moved away from that. They have created new industries providing fertility through fossil fuel based fertilizers, mined amendments and […]

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