On any given summer morning, you can wander through rows and rows of vegetables at the Boise Urban Garden School (BUGS) and spot a group of fourth to twelfth graders sitting, crouching or sprawling as they scribble and sketch entries in their custom-decorated garden journals. These days we expect most kids to be committed...
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BOISE: Marcel Dicke, a presenter at TED, argues that the world as we know it is not run by humans but by insects. (TED is a conference held in Palm Springs and Oxford each year that hosts highly intelligent folks “giving the speech of their life in 18 minutes” and having “Ideas worth sharing”.) Insects process...
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What do you do when your garden is invaded by bugs? If you’re an organic gardener, a plague of pests can test your convictions. Do you patiently pick the bugs off, accept serious losses or pull out the big chemical guns? In this installment of the Market & Garden Report correspondent Guy...
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As the weather warms up, so do bugs. That’s why gardeners should prepare for pests early. In this installment of The Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand talks to Clay and Josie Erskine of Peaceful Belly Farms about controlling that buggy bane of the Treasure Valley: earwigs. (Clay) So, we’re going...
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