It has been a good year for tomatoes here, until this weekend when the first flakes of snow fell. The first average frost for the Chicago area is October 1-10, after all. Ugh. 

The Fall season of hummingbird migration is here, so if you haven't seen one in your backyard yet, there is still time to do so through early October. 

Since 2011, when having bees became legal in Oak Park, the practice of keeping a backyard apiary here has taken flight.

By now, many backyard gardeners are in full battle mode with garden pests. Eradicating them, or at least trying to, stinks. 

As an edible and native plant gardener, I'm always going nose-to-nose with pests, or beneficial insects, that attack, or protect, my DIY sustainable landscaping.

Good urban gardeners can grow just about anything, anywhere, almost any way one can imagine if their soil is healthy, they have enough sun, and the weather conditions are right.

I used to think that some of the veggie seeds I planted in the Spring, and am harvesting now, were one and dones. That's just not true.

A year ago this month, at the close of the inaugural meeting of the West Cook Wild Ones at Green Home Experts in Oak Park is where and when I began talking with veteran butterfly gardener Stephanie Walquist about her ongoing passion.

The other day I ran across a pretty and delicate little flower in my garden I didn't remember planting.

About a year ago, at an informative talk about butterfly gardening at the inaugural meeting of the West Cook Wild Ones in Oak Park, I had a watershed moment about grass.