Colleen Vanderlinden
Colleen Vanderlinden is the author of Edible Gardening for the Midwest and Vegetable Gardening for the Midwest. Her work has appeared in Mother Earth News and Birds & Blooms, and she's the organic gardening guide for About.com. When she's not gardening, she's teaching others how to do so. Which basically means she's obsessed.
In addition to gardening, she enjoys cooking, reading (usually about gardening....) and dreaming of keeping a few chickens. She's also the founder of In the Garden Online, where she writes about gardening, blogging, and everything in between, and Gardening in the Mitten, where she provides useful information for Michigan gardeners.
Latest Stories from Colleen Vanderlinden - Page 2
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Are Your Christmas Trees REALLY Being Recycled?
Your community promises that Christmas trees will be picked up and recycled. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.
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6 Steps for Planning Next Year's Garden
If you're planning on having a garden next year, here are a few things to keep in mind for your most productive gardening year ever.
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Vigilante Garden: The Story of a Man and His Guerilla Garden
Filmmaker Todd Bieber planted a garden on a neglected plot of land in Brooklyn, and filmed the process from start to finish.
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Cross-Breeding Education, Agriculture, and Stem-Cell Therapy
Trying to decide whether to help save a university farm that teaches the farmers of tomorrow, and engages in stem-cell research on sheep: what's a TreeHugger to do?
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What Does Gardening Have to Do with the #Occupy Movement?
Why occupying the garden may be the most important location of all.
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Surprise! Grocery Store Honey is Not Actually Honey
That honey that lines the shelves of your local grocery store probably isn't honey at all.
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Spirit of Hope Urban Farm: Filling Food Pantries, Strengthening Communities in Detroit
An urban farm in Detroit feeds the community, educates children, and brings neighbors together.
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Save Adam's Garden -- Updates and Contact Information
We posted on Saturday about Memphis teacher Adam Guerrero, who has been ordered by the Shelby County Environmental Court to dismantle his garden,
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Memphis Teacher Ordered to Dismantle Urban Garden
From the "Are You Freaking Kidding Me??" department...
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Growing Cities: A Film About Urban Farming in America
Urban farms each have their own identity, their own feel and methodology. But the one thing they have in common is idealism, and the sense that our cities can be so much more than they
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It's Not Too Late to Plant a Fall Garden! What to Plant in Your Region Now
Fall gardening is rewarding in a way that can be hard to explain. You get to plant and harvest in cooler weather, which is always nice. But it's more than that. The variety of things
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Help Save One of America's Heirloom, Non-GMO Seed Houses
D. Landreth Seeds is America's oldest seed company. It was founded in 1784 in Pennsylvania, and carries over 900 heirloom, non-GMO seed varieties. Many of the plants and vegetable
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Love the Scent of Fresh Laundry? That Fragrance Isn't as Clean as You May Think
Ahhhh, the scent of fresh, clean laundry. You can buy laundry detergent in every fragrance from lavender to citrus to "fresh rain" -- whatever that's supposed to smell like. But next time you do a pile of laundry,
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How to Maintain a Container Garden (Slideshow)
In many ways, container gardening is much easier than traditional, in-ground gardening. No rocky soil to dig into, no roots to battle, and the number of pests you have to deal with is
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How to Maintain a Container Garden
In many ways, container gardening is much easier than traditional, in-ground gardening. No rocky soil to dig into, no roots to battle, and the number of pests you have to deal with is greatly reduced. But like any garden, a container garden requires its
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100+ Ways to Cook Zucchini
Chances are good that if you have a garden or belong to a CSA, right about now, you have at least a few zucchini or summer squash sitting on your counter. If you're looking for
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What to Do With a Glut of Cherry Tomatoes
It's that time of year. Little tomatoes are taking over my kitchen. The garden has produced (as it does every year at this time...) a ridiculous amount of cherry, grape, pear, and currant tomatoes. Even my
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How To Build a Container Garden (Slideshow)
Container gardening truly marries the beautiful with the practical. You can personalize your garden, simply by picking or making unique containers. How you place those containers
