The Changing Face of Community Gardens
Traditionally, community gardens have been led by garden-loving volunteers who spend considerable time and energy finding available public space in which to grow. Extensive efforts filling out f…
From Consumer to Producer: A Metamorphosis
All change is difficult but changing our spending and eating habits can sometimes feel impossible. It’s not easy to transform from a fortunate consumer who has a world of choice at the grocery sto…
Fall Gardening Tasks – Feed Your Community, Feed Yourself and then Feed the Soil
It’s that time of year again when harvest aprons swell and kitchen counters overflow with late season garden goodies. My fridge is stuffed with pole beans, hot and sweet peppers, tomatoes, kale …
Our Mission: To INSPIRE Urbanites to Grow Their Own Food and Reconnect With Nature
As BUFCO heads into its fifteenth year, I reflect back on our metamorphosis from mindless consumers to conscious producers. We were driven by a need to connect with the land, to get back to ba…
Why I Grow My Own Food
Why do you grow your own food? This was a question I posed to workshop participants this winter. I was not at all surprised to hear the wide variety of enthusiastic answers. Take a deeper dive int…
Straw Bale Gardening
We are always looking for new ways to garden in underutilized urban spaces, and our yard is the perfect venue for experimentation.
We operate in the corner of a parking lot in a pretty industr…