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What does every garden need? 

What’s a Bread Lab? 

Bakers, chefs, restaurateurs, food entrepreneurs, community organizers, and writers come to the Bread Lab at Washington State University to interact with scientists and to make contact with farmers, millers, maltsters, distillers and brewers.  The environment allows participants to learn, teach, and experiment in a functioning kitchen lab without having to shut down their own production lines.

Why do we need it? 

Wheat is the number one source of food calories on the planet. A whole kernel of wheat is one of the most nutrient dense foods while white flour is one of the least.

The goal of the Bread Lab is to combine science, art, curiosity, and innovation to explore ways of using regionally available grains to move the craft of whole grain bread baking and other grain usage forward.

What a great idea! @lifelabtweets

What can you do in a year? 

Conceptual artist Stan Herd grew a reproduction of a Vincent can Gogh olive tree painting in a field in Minnesota. 

Last month the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) unveiled a 1.5-acre work of crop art by Stan Herd, a Kansas-based artist who has planted many earthworks around the world, including a re-creation of one of Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches of gliders

Alice Waters, owner and former chef of the legendary Chez Panisse restaurant and maven of the slow food movement, says the best way to combat fast food culture is through “edible education.” Waters offers her Brief but Spectacular take on the benefits of cooking and inspiring young people to care about their food

via Nourish

Get Crisp Spring Crops at March Edible Plant Sale on March 14

Get ready for spring gardening! Our Puget Sound region has a maritime climate that's perfect for early planting. Getting started early is a great way to increase how much food you can harvest this year.

A Farming Kindergarten in Vietnam with a Spiraling Green Roof

This Canadian site shows neighborhood gardening in action!

Gardens naturally produce surplus and sharing makes it possible to grow a wider variety of delicious plants and beautiful flowers. 

Want big, free plants?

Hate to throw out a perfectly healthy plant, shrub or tree that is no longer working in your yard, patio or garden?

Plant Amnesty allows you to offer and find plants for transplant. The listing service is free. If you want plants, PA asks you to become a member for a small fee.