You know, after eight years of running our community garden, I thought I'd seen every possible irrigation disaster. We've dealt with vandalized sprinklers, stolen hoses, and that memorable incident where…
You know, before we started the community garden back in 2017, I was already experimenting on our tiny back balcony in Fishtown. Mike used to joke that I was treating…
Let me tell you about the morning I stood in my dining room at 7 AM, wearing my good meeting clothes, gently brushing tomato flowers with Rachel’s makeup brush. That’s…
You know that look people give you when you suggest something that sounds perfectly reasonable to you but completely insane to them? That's exactly what happened when I walked into…
The tenth dead basil plant was my breaking point. I'm standing there in my cramped Portland condo kitchen, holding what used to be a perfectly good $4.99 basil plant from…
When I first tried growing microgreens in my vertical garden setup, it was like watching a slow-motion catastrophe unfold over several days. Seeds washing from one tray to another, soil…
You know what finally pushed me over the edge? It wasn't watching my neighbor Patricia spend $200 on a single planter that looked like something I could slap together in…
So there I was, standing in my apartment kitchen at 2:47 AM on a Wednesday, watching brown sludge bubble up through my DWC system's air stones like some kind of…
You know how sometimes you don't realize something's wrong until someone points it out? That's exactly what happened when my buddy Mike came over last spring to help me troubleshoot…
So there I was, standing in my kitchen at 11 PM watching a YouTube video of some zen gardening lady effortlessly growing perfect microgreens, thinking "how hard could this possibly…