Can you imagine a substance that is beneficial to nature, helps reduce climate change and is abundant and free?

My interest in biocontrol started with slugs. I was looking for a way to attract ground beetles and other slug predators to my garden.

Here we are in mid-summer, the garden bounty is arriving—but wait—we have to plan for our winter crops also.

The salmonberry is the first flowering native plant, blooming out in early spring; its pink flowers feed our native bumblebees and hummingbirds.

An open and sunlit forest floor is the perfect opportunity for red alder (Alnus rubra), known as a pioneer species that needs sunlight to germinate its seeds and to grow.

Getting a good home-grown tomato can be a challenge with our cool summer evenings, so here are some suggestions to help you.

The honeycomb structure of char benefits the soil biology by encouraging and retaining fungi, bacteria and moisture in the soil.

The Pacific Northwest is particularly suited to nettles
because they grow in temperate climates where it is wet. Is
this a curse, or are we lucky?

Here is a Tilth riddle for you.
Question: What is beautifully colored with swirls of dark pink and snowy white, can appear to be smaller than it is, and has long, green hair in the summer?