Whatever you think of Burpee, America's largest seed company, I think they've been pretty shrewd in the way they market their wares to would-be vegetable gardeners. These are the vulgarians who...

It's not enough to write a book anymore; you've got to have a video, too. I'm lucky to have a brother in the film industry, which makes this much easier. When The Earth Moved came out, Jason shot...

Newbie worm composter here, trying a large homemade bin (shown here) but dreaming of something MUCH better. That's because this single-compartment system is waaay too inexact, too messy, too...

I have a checkered past with vegetable gardening. It is so cool in the summer here on the northern California coast that it never gets hot enough for tomatoes, the one vegetable I really want to...

A "farm" beside Route 5 in California's Central Valley So, here's an interesting little problem that actually became a problem in 2008, when there were food riots in developing countries and...