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Flowers aren’t just for show, they’re also delicious and useful! Borage: Borage flowers taste as nice as they look. They’re a little sweet and taste like cucumber, and are delicious on their own or as a salad garnish. I personally can’t help but eat a few whenever I’m out in ...

Yarducopia was invited by the Native Village of Port Heiden this spring to help them start a garden.  Exciting things are happening in the community!  They have recently acquired a reindeer herd, chickens, meat rabbits, and pigs.  They have constructed a fish processing plant, and the community has taken charge ...

It’s slug season! With organic gardening, pests are going to happen, and two that have shown their little pesky faces this season are slugs and root maggots. You may recognize the familiar munching of slugs, leaving holes in your leafy greens. There are a few methods to deterring slugs. First ...

Trying to eat local in Alaska?  What do you do about protein?  How do you eat in the winter?  If you are trying to eat in line with your conscience, are you trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from food production and transport?  Are you trying to preserve and ...

We here with Yarducopia normally build 100 sf sheet mulch (or 'Lasagna') style gardens for our participants.  Sometimes we do other things, and sometimes our builds don't exactly follow this recipe, but sheet mulching is one of the best ways to turn old lawn into a new, productive garden quickly.  Here ...