Scout Somerville just released the autumn edition of its magazine, featuring Green City Growers' how-to book, The Urban Bounty: Growing Your Own Fresh Organic Produce, Anywhere, in its selection of best holiday gifts for locavores.
Whether you're looking to grow your own, or want to give a gift of learning to someone else, you can't go wrong with The Urban Bounty.
Today at Green City Growers, we celebrated National Eating Healthy Day. This is a day created to promote healthy eating among Americans and to get them thinking about making small steps towards better eating habits. Check out a video our intern Dan made commenting on healthy eating!
Food Day is a Nation wide holiday that celebrates people and the food we eat. It's efforts are to connect people back to their food e.i. where it comes from, what it is, if its in season ect. All across the nation kids are learning how to chop veggies in school, how to eat healthy and where their food comes from.
Check out GCG's Food Day video on our Facebook page and join us in making a simple Virgin Garden Bloody Mary!
Living in a metropolitan city like Boston, many people don’t reside in areas that have immediate access to garden space and if they do, it’s in a place with contaminated soil that makes growing difficult and unsafe. More and more gardens have been popping up in unused area around the city, from alleyways to rooftops. Now imagine if these gardens not only beautified the city, but provided another essential use; imagine they provided an access to locally grown vegetables too!
This is exactly what Whole Foods is doing in Lynnfield, Massachusetts with the help of Green City Growers and Recover Green Roofs. Now, the patrons at this super market have the option to purchase their “regular” produce, or produce that was grown locally… so local in fact, it is actually grown on the roof above their heads! Completed in August, Whole Foods Lynnfield opened to the public, offering them raw
For all of October, Green City Growers is offering our unique cold frames at a 5% discount. Combine your cold frame with the purchase of one of our raised beds, and enjoy 10% off your whole purchase! To celebrate this offer, we’ve compiled the top 4 ways a cold frame can change the way you garden.
1. Overwinter cold-hardy crops.
