Weekend Reading 1/26/24

This week: Sustainable gardening industry trends, how gardening helps protect threatened bees, how crop rotations promotes gardening success, tips to gardening with arthritis and checking in with the "Gangsta Gardener."

These are the key industry trends we will be embracing in our own backyards – for a sustainable start to the gardening year, Homes & Gardens

Head of Gardens Rachel Bull discusses sustainable gardening industry trends.

Gardening helps protect threatened bees in Arizona, Arizona Daily Star

Writer Kate Duffy explains how gardening helps protect threatened bees in Arizona, which is home to the second-most diverse bee population in the country.

Sow, grow, rotate: How crop rotation promotes gardening success, Muddy River News

Emily Swihart from the University of Illinois Extension explains how crop rotation promotes gardening success.

Tips to gardening with arthritis, The Vindicator

Ohio State University Master Gardener Volunteer Eileen Novotny shares tips to gardening with arthritis.

A TED Talk Put Ron Finley on the Map. 10 Years Later, the ‘Gangsta Gardener’ Is Going Strong, Civil Eats

Writer Stephanie Toone catches up with Ron Finley, the self-proclaimed “Gangsta Gardener,” who 10 years ago gave a TED Talk about food apartheid in his community, South Central Los Angeles. The talk featured the line “Growing your own food is like printing your own money" — which has become the seed of Finley’s burgeoning philanthropic work.

Enjoy your reading, have a great weekend and we'll see you next week!