Attack of The Green Potatoes

  The cultivation of potatoes originated in South America, where the Incas of Peru grew them for food some 10,000 years ago. The original potato, though, bore little resemblance to today’s enormous, oblong, white-fleshed tuber. [ … ]

Americans love potatoes, eating about 125 pounds, per person, per year. Although potatoes are easy to grow, many off-gridders on small plots of land avoid them because traditional growing techniques take up a lot of [ … ]

Autumn is here and winter is just around the corner. As many gardeners begin to bed down their gardens, some people get concerned about their compost piles. Will a compost pile survive the winter? Can [ … ]