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Growing enough food to feed your family for a year
Here’s a challenge more and more yard farmers are considering these days: Feed your family for a year on things you grow. What exactly does that mean, though? Well, it could mean a number of things....
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What’s in your soil?
So what’s in your soil? Or more specifically, what’s in your fertilizer? If you use Miracle Gro, it’s nothing but synthetic chemicals, petroleum and salt– and those chemicals are dangerous for your...
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Ten things we miss about the warm weather
It’s late January, and the temperatures are forecast to be well below freezing for the foreseeable future here in southeast Michigan. It feels a bit like Narnia– an unending winter where Christmas...
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A personal crop consultant can help you maximize your garden
Have you ever wondered if you’re planting too much in your garden? Did you know certain vegetables shouldn’t be planted next to each other? Have you ever considered the amount of sunlight your yard...
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Incidents of cancer on the rise in the U.S.
A new report from the American Society of Clinical Oncology says that by the year 2030, cancer will surpass heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States. That means for the first...
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Five great movies that will change the way you think about food and farming
If you’re ready to have your mind blown when it comes to farming and food– or if you’re ready to get a friend or relative on-board with organic and sustainable farming– here are five fantastic movies...
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Enjoy a taste of summer all year long
If you share a love for these three things– the home-spun wisdom of The Farmer’s Almanac, fresh strawberry jam, and canning stuff from the garden– then do we have a recipe for you! First, if you...
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That ‘fresh earth’ smell after it rains
You know that smell in the air after a good rain? Or that smell that permeates the air when you dig into your garden’s soil every spring? Did you know there’s a scientific explanation for that smell?...
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Good Sweet Earth is expanding westward
Good Sweet Earth, southeast Michigan’s only all-organic lawn and garden care company, is expanding its operations into west Michigan in the fall of 2014. Services such as chemical-free lawn...
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Healing the planet, one yard at a time
If you were to ask us to sum up in one sentence our vision for Good Sweet Earth, it would be the headline of this post– Healing the planet, one yard at a time. We got started in the vermicompost...
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