Al Benner believes everyone should have a garden. For anyone with an aversion to playing with dirt or simply do not have the time to care for a garden on their own, there is Backyard Farmers, reports philly.com. “I’m one of these guys with a lot of energy,” the 48-year-old Mount Airy resident said by […]
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A few years ago Jill Plumb decided to create a raised vegetable garden. However, she was having trouble. She went into her home, and as she started to put some napkins in a holder a lightbulb went off in her head reports The Sun News. The MBrace was born. After making that napkin drawing in
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According to trendspotter Springwise, the Life Box can be made to virtually any dimension and used by consumers and companies alike to package or ship goods. What sets the Life Box apart, however, is that within its corrugations are hundreds of tree seeds and thousands of spores of beneficial mycorrhizal fungi. How it works: Once
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StarTribune.com: Schroeder was a first-time gardener a few years ago when she got an unpleasant surprise while inspecting her produce. Many of the melons she had so carefully planted and tended had developed “one yucky side, with bugs and grubs,” from lying on the ground. “I didn’t know you had to turn melons,” she said.
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How much would you pay for a box of tea-bag-like pouches filled with dried cow manure? According to Inc.com, lots of people are forking over $21.95 for a packet of nine such bags, made by Authentic Haven Brand in San Juan Capistrano, California. The product is the idea of Annie Haven, who grew up on
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From spring to fall, many yards are filled with beautiful flowers. If that yard is in the same neighborhood as Kathleen Gostissa, it was probably her handiwork that made those flowers so beautiful. Kathleen has always enjoyed flowers, but she has found a business in tending them for others. Known as Creative Containers, she puts
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Bellevue Reporter: As a contractor and gardener of more than three decades, Jim Fabregas has lost a few tools in his day. Whether it’s dropping a lopper in the garbage, or leaving a tool in the bush, keeping track of supplies can be a real hassle. So about six years ago, Fabregas began fashioning an
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Wired: Massachusetts startup Harvest Automation is beta testing a small mobile robot that it’s pitching to nurseries as the solution to their most pressing problem: a volatile labor market. The multi-billion-dollar industry that supplies ornamental plants to building contractors, big-box retailers and landscaping firms — $11.7 billion according to the most recent USDA figures —
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Lu Chia-you’s father could no longer bend down like he once could. As a result, he was not able to tend his plants. So Lu created a product that would help his father garden again reports Taiwan Today. His new gadget, Lu said, gives people who have no space to grow vegetables or flowers in
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Known by friends as “The Slug Man,” Callum Davis is on a quest to help you in the garden according to Guardian.co.uk. Davis is still a month shy of his 20th birthday but his company, EcoCharlie, employs five full-time staff and is set to turn over £150,000 this year in sales of a fast-expanding range
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