Peoples’ Garden provides tips, workshops on gardening
Do you want to make your garden the best it can be? Do you want to learn more about how to conserve as much as possible, while cultivating a thriving garden? The Peoples’ Garden at USDA was...
View ArticleWalking through the Peoples’ Garden
The weather is holding through this afternoon, and the lunchtime crowd in the Peoples’ Garden is excited and really interested to see what’s happening. Early in the afternoon, the DC Central Kitchen, a...
View ArticleGetting ready for another Healthy Garden Workshop!
It’s an absolutely beautiful day here in Washington, D.C., and we’re setting up to put on the third week of Healthy Garden Workshops. If you’re not in town, you can still follow the Peoples’ Garden on...
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Health and Physical Activity: Priorities for Every Season
I have had an eventful couple of weeks since my last post. I spent a day two weeks ago in Riverdale, Maryland at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services building learning more about some of...
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A Model for Managing a Weed’s Mischief
This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from the USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. – Marcia Wood,...
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Feeling Stressed? So are Poplars
This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from the USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. By Jennifer...
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Pests and Their Natural Enemies: Learn to Protect Your Garden!
Written by Kayla Harless, People’s Garden Intern The People’s Garden workshops have yet to be anything less than an informative and fun time! Today, Don Weber, a research entomologist with USDA...
View ArticleAPHIS Celebrates 40 Years on the Front Lines for U.S. Agriculture
This is a special year for USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). Not only are we celebrating USDA’s 150th anniversary, but we are also commemorating our own 40th anniversary....
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A Green Menace Threatens a Mohawk Community
APHIS plant health specialists investigate for Emerald Ash Borer. For centuries, the Mohawk community of the Akwesasne (pronounced AHG – weh – SAUCE – knee) have created traditional basketry from the...
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