Virginia Home Grown

Serome offers tips on how to create a thriving garden, even during the winter.

Peggy shares some advice on how to add color to your winter garden.

Tour an herb garden focused on tea plants and learn how to make a perfect cup of the world's second most popular drink after water. Discover how luffa plants are grown and processed into sponges.

Peggy discusses the importance of having trees in our environment for a healthy and happy ecosystem.

I enjoy the variety of fruit trees that give me fruit throughout the seasons. But, avoiding the desire to prune your trees too soon is difficult when there is no more fruit, or once the leaves have fallen.

Healthy ecosystems need native plants to provide food and shelter for all types of wildlife. Learn about native fruit trees and other edible plants from a school that connects students to nature. Then visit an organization that restores indigenous plant and animal communities that have been suppressed by traditional landscape practices.