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DIY: Kitchen Counter Salad Sprouts
I first started sprouting seeds—all kinds of grains, legumes, and vegetables—when I lived in the city. Even with a non-existent or small garden, indoor sprouting requires very little space, and is an...
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The Healthiest Spaghetti You'll Ever Eat
Here at Gardenista, we like to believe in miracles. Enter moringa. Dubbed the new miracle food, Moringa oleifera has farmers and international aid groups excited that it could help eliminate widespread...
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Cheat Sheet: How to Keep Vegetables Fresh Longer
Some people shop impulsively for shoes. I shop impulsively for vegetables. I wander through the Union Square Greenmarket at lunchtime and find myself stuffing jewel-toned beets and carrots into my tote...
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The Secret Garden: An Artist's Atelier in France
Claire Basler lives and works in a former schoolhouse in Les Ormes, on the outskirts of Paris, where she creates enormous floral arrangements on a daily basis as the subject of her large-scale...
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Nude Gardening and Prickly Pears: Wilder Quarterly Has It All
Take our advice, open the latest issue of Wilder Quarterly and let yourself get lost for awhile. Lessons in growing prickly pear cacti, nude gardening, and cooking with chili peppers await—and that's...
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Ambatalia: Food Storage Bags
If you're already doing your eco-duty by shopping at the local farmers' market and eating your weight in vitamins, it's time to go whole hog and ditch the plastic in your life, too. Ambatalia's linen...
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In the News: Remodelista's Top 5 Posts of the Week
It was Fashion Week on Remodelista too, and I personally plan to be wearing every one of Julie and Alexa and Francesca and Christine's finds (can you wear a mirror?). Above: Alexa is Packing Light for...
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Fishkill Apple Orchards: A Family Farm Goes Sustainable
You've probably heard of McIntosh, Golden Delicious, and Pink Lady apples, but what about Cox's Orange Pippin or Esopus Spitzenberg? These are some of the rare heirloom apples grown at Fishkill Farms...
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Shopper's Diary: Daughters by Floral Magic
"My work is actually really messy, disguised by the overall look of controlled chaos," says florist Josephine Lau, co-owner of Daughters by Floral Magic in Singapore. She forgot to mention that it's...
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10 Easy Pieces: White Hanging Planters
You can never have enough hanging planters. I prefer to hang mine close to a window, which keeps the plant happy and makes for good conversation among my neighbors. Here are 10 (well, actually 11)...
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Required Reading: The Wildlife Gardener
"Imagine a world in which blades of grass tower above you," writes Kate Bradbury in The Wildlife Gardener. "Where trees are giants and flowers big plates of food." Crawling through the undergrowth,...
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What's the Point of Wasps?
The picnic is ready. The weather has been kind and dietary requirements taken into consideration. The drinks are being poured. And then? A wasp looms into view, followed by another. "They're worse than...
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10 Easy Pieces: U-Pick Orchards
The chill that creeps into the air signals the arrival of apple and pear season. Bushel baskets of pink, green, and red apples will appear at farmers' markets. But to get your hands on the freshest...
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A Rooftop Garden for All Seasons in Rotterdam
In 2002, landscape architect Astrid Hölzer and her husband bought a two-story apartment in a typical Dutch "herenhuis" (circa 1909) in Rotterdam. The apartment, on the top two floors of the townhouse,...
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The Perfect Potting Shed Bin
Leave it to the Swiss to develop a waste bin that's as functional as it is nice to look at. If I had a potting shed to speak of, I'd be tempted to outfit it with the whole catalog of lidded receptacles...
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You Pin It, We ID It: A Stylish Collection of Houseplants
Love at first sight is a daily occurrence around here. Pinterest doles out plenty houseplant inspiration (and envy). Every time we refresh our stream, there are new houseplants to ogle. We spot a photo...
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Gardenista Giveaway Winner: 66 Square Feet Cookbook
Ready to create menus from food you grow yourself? Our randomly selected winner of a copy of the cookbook 66 Square Feet: A Delicious Life by Marie Viljoen is our reader Adriana, a new subscriber to...
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Rugged Garden Style by Artifact Bag Co.
Here at Gardenista we relish garden garb that's both rugged enough to stand up to our active lifestyles, yet sophisticated enough to tote down town. Hence the artisanal goods of Artifact Bag Co....
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A Manhattan Nursery School Where Gardening is in the Curriculum
In Manhattan's Greenwich Village where space is tight and gardens rare, the First Presbyterian Church Nursery School recently transformed a "baking hot" rooftop playground into an edible garden. And...
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Spruced Up: A New Apothecary in Portland, Oregon
In 2005, when Craig Olson and Sean Igo opened Canoe in Portland, OR, their interiors and design shop proved well ahead of the curve and helped put Portland on the design map. The pair recently added...
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