30th Anniversary Historical Post: The Evolution of GFE's Hillside Areas
/Today’s historical post takes a look at our hillside areas over twenty-four of the garden’s thirty-year history.
Read MoreActivity: One Inch Tall
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Shift your perspective and learn to experience nature from the eyes of a tiny creature.
Read MoreNative Plant Fun Facts: The Charismatic Cow Parsnip
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This week’s featured California native plant is the cow parsnip (Heracleum maximum). It not only grows in California, but in most of the United States, and is the only plant in the genus Heracleum native to North America.
Read MoreResource: What type of soil should I use?
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What’s the difference between all the types of soil you hear about? Learn about potting mix, planting mix, topsoil, and compost and which one is best for your purposes.
Read MoreRecipe: Fresh Ricotta for a Big Lasagna
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Homemade ricotta is just so much better than anything you can get from the store. Ricotta is soooo easy and one of those cooking projects that is well worth the extra effort. There are plenty of things that are not worth making from scratch but to me, ricotta is not one of those things.
Read More30th Anniversary Historical Post: Water, Water Everywhere (around GFE)!
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Today’s historical post looks at GFE and the water surrounding it, past and present.
Read MoreChecking in!
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How are you? After checking in as a team, I thought it might be good to check in with YOU, our community! See how you are doing and tell you a little bit about the state of the garden.
Read MoreActivity: GFE Scavenger Hunts for Kids
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Three scavenger hunts specific to the garden at GFE for youth ages 3-7.
Read MoreNative Plant Fun Facts: The Lovely Lupine
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This week, we focus our attention on the lupine, one gem we’re so pleased to have at GFE. We have several lupine plants, and most either self-seeded or sprouted from seeds sprinkled by staff in the garden’s native hillside area from a mother plant that was killed by gophers a couple of years ago. We suspect our lupines are either Silver Lupine (Lupinus albifrons) or Chamisso Bush Lupine (Lupinus chamissonis).
Read MoreGrowing Food in Containers
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All you need to know about growing vegetables and herbs in containers, including soil, types of containers, drainage, and what to plant.
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