Beginning Guide - Container Gardening 101.
This past week Dr. John, our Founder,  was invited to provide his expertise to the Homegrown.org community on Container Gardening.  In addition to this on-line publication, Dr. John will be featured in the Meet Your Neighbor segment to discuss his experiences in gardening, the localvore movement, and most recently his involvement in getting folks involved in feeding their own. Dr. John will be featured in the Homegrown.org newsletter and social media. This is in addition to his page and blog on Home Brewing called "The Brewers Pub" along with various blogs in "The Stew." In case you have not hear of the Homegrown.org website, you are missing out on a lot of very good information and discussion.   Below is an extract from their FAQ page.  
HOMEGROWN.org is an online community of people interested in all things HOMEGROWN: growing, cooking, crafting, brewing, preserving, building, making, and creating. HOMEGROWN.org is a place where we can learn from each other, share our questions, and show off how we dig in the dirt, grow our own food, work with our hands, and cook and share our meals—all things we call HOMEGROWN.

Farm Aid founded HOMEGROWN.org with the mission to create a place where our love for food and the land evolves, deepens, and becomes something more fulfilling. A place where we can hear and appreciate the bigger stories that our food has to share. A place where we can connect to the source of our food, the land and the grower: the family farm. Where we see the connections between good soil, good farmers, good taste, and good times. Where the source of our food doesn’t feel like a stranger, but a fun and friendly neighbor.

That’s the spirit of HOMEGROWN.org. A spirit that will mean more visits to the farmers markets, more backyard BBQs, more dirt under the fingernails, more talking, touching, smelling, and tasting. It will mean a more fulfilling life that people everywhere will come to call HOMEGROWN.

This website celebrates all of us who pioneer a HOMEGROWN way to live, eat, grow, and express ourselves. We connect to the land and to each other.
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NO FARMS NO FOOD
The message is simple and couldn't be more clear—America's farms and ranches provide an unparalleled abundance of fresh, healthy and local food, but they are rapidly disappearing.

Ninety-one percent of America’s fruit and seventy-eight percent of our vegetables are grown near metro regions, where they are in the path of development. And America has been losing more than an acre of farmland every minute. That's why supporting local food and farms is more important than ever!
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