How to Create Your Own Urban Garden
July 26, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Since you are part of the Crazy Sexy Life community, you know the importance of your food, where it comes from and how it’s grown. You also want to start growing your own food, but aren’t sure where to start and what to do since you live in an urban environment. I understand because I was in the same situation back in 2009. During that time I was living in New York City. There was… Read More >
Autumn’s Promise, Spring’s Fulfillment
April 12, 2011
By Kevin Archer
Today I pulled back the mulch in my garlic bed. I was greeted by tender green shoots, holding aloft the fulfillment of a promise. In October, I planted about 120 garlic cloves and let them sprout. Shortly before the first frost, I gave them a good blanket of straw, and we agreed to meet again after winter. I also put on a few extra layers, and now here we are, at the threshold of spring.… Read More >
Growing Up in the Garden
March 25, 2011
By Alexandra Jamieson
Some of my first memories are from my mother’s garden (that’s Mom and Me, aka “Sasha” at Eve’s Organic Garden, mid-1970s, Lake Grove, OR). When I close my eyes, I feel cool pebbles and dewy grass under my bare feet, hear buzzing bees and chirping birds and smell a cacophony of scents from roses, lilac, herbs, freshly turned earth and compost. My mom learned gardening from her grandparents in Texas and moist, chilly Port Angeles,… Read More >
4 Simple Reasons Why You Should Grow Your Own Food
September 20, 2010
By Mike Lieberman
We are very fortunate to live in a time when at any time of the day or night we can easily walk or drive to the store and have a selection of various produce available at our fingertips. With this luxury why would you want to spend your time growing your own food? I have a pretty simple answer to that: We are human. As humans, this is what we do. We grow food. It’s… Read More >
Seven Tips to Help Your Garden Flourish
May 21, 2010
By Danny Seo
Even someone who claims to have a brown-thumb when it comes to gardening can achieve green and gorgeous results with these easy gardening tips. Whether it’s digging up dirt in your own backyard or container growing on a sunny windowsill, these simple strategies will help your garden grow. Gardening Tip #1: Reuse those packing peanuts. Container gardening is popular for folks with limited backyard space, but the large pots can be heavy to move when… Read More >
Native Plants & Your Garden
December 15, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Laura Mathews What if plants could multi-task? You know, do more than stand there and look pretty. Consider this: in order to add color and interest to your yard, you’re looking for a flowering shrub. You could choose a deep pink flowering azalea. That would be pretty. Or you could choose native spicebush. That would be pretty, too. But spicebush, like other native plants, offers deeper beauty. Like azalea, it flowers in the spring. Unlike… Read More >
Urban Gardening for the Everyday Person
December 10, 2009
By Guest Blogger
It seems like a lifetime ago now, but last this past spring and summer were my first seasons of urban vegetable gardening. I didn’t have a huge, lush, perfectly tended garden to work with. What I did have was a fire escape—and my own determination! See, I live in New York City. Around here, the concrete outweighs the green. I had to get creative with the limited space outdoor space in my apartment, so I… Read More >
Cutting Your Water Use In Half
November 12, 2009
By Sophie Uliano
Many predict that in the not too distant future, we will be fighting over water, not oil. The problem is that the Earth isn’t generating the clean, drinkable water that it used to. The good news is that if we can use less and learn to protect our rivers, lakes and oceans, we may drink to see another day! So how can we really get a grip on our own personal situation? There are many… Read More >
How to Prepare Your Garden for Winter
November 3, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Shawna Lee Coronado Home gardening: it’s the best way to ensure that you and your family members are receiving the freshest, truly organic, locally grown vegetables. By growing our own foods, we teach children and family members how to connect with nature and live with less chemical exposure. Take it from a lady who lives in Chicagoland, though: few parts of the gardening cycle are more important than closing one’s garden for the winter. Preparing… Read More >
Garden Punks
October 12, 2009
By Guest Blogger
On this Meatless Monday, CSL welcomes the knowledge of blogger and gardener, Katie Hobson. Learn how easy it is to start your own veggie garden and find out about the community of gardeners ready to help you along the way! From Left to Right: Katie, Jake, Chris In 2006, I was a 20-something homeowner with a freshly acquired home and garden. I was ready, at long last, to get my hands into the dirt in… Read More >
Spotlight on Mountain Spirit Botanicals
August 14, 2009
By Guest Blogger
We’ve learned about the risks associated with being uneducated about personal care products from Stacy Malkan and Mia Davis. Today we’re shining a spotlight on a company we love because of the time, care, and mindfulness they put into their products. We wanted to pull back the curtain and give Mountain Spirit Botanicals the chance to share what goes into their wonderful creations, some of which are now featured in our Crazy Sexy Shop! Take… Read More >
Crazy About Composting
July 10, 2009
By Sophie Uliano
I am crazy about composting. Each time I toss veggie scraps into the little ceramic compost crock on my kitchen counter, I am thrilled that every little morsel is going to good use. We need good topsoil – the planet is desperately in need of it, which is why in countries like Sweden, composting is mandatory. It’s amazing to realize that topsoil is the earth’s skin and we are entirely dependent on it for our… Read More >
Practical Magic
July 1, 2009
By Kate Hanley
Although I love yoga and have been practicing for 13 years, I am not here to tell you how wonderful it is and how you need to do more of it. I *am* here to tell you about the value of having some sort of practice. I define practice as “What you do with regularity, even when you don’t feel like doing anything else.” I firmly believe that incorporating some sort of practice, or activity,… Read More >
Edible Schoolyards
June 23, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Photo by Lindsay Morris One of the most inspiring elements of the food renaissance underway on New York’s East End is the viral spread of edible schoolyards. From Sag Harbor to Amagansett, and from Riverhead to Southold, teachers, concerned parents, farmers and precocious students are erecting greenhouses near playgrounds, bringing food into the classroom and putting gastro-literacy on equal footing as reading, writing and arithmetic. The pioneering Ross School in East Hampton has been serving… Read More >
