Dig It! Garden Blog

Research is an important part of our mission here at CMBG. We’re excited to share an insider’s look into some of the research we have been doing this past year. During the 2020 growing season,…

In recognition of Black History Month, CMBG’s IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) Committee wanted to take the opportunity to honor the traditions, skills, and knowledge Black Americans have brought to our field. Each week,…

What makes this coffee cake so special is its use of Kernza, a perennial wheat from The Land Institute, a Kansas-based nonprofit organization focused on developing perennial grains and diverse, ecological cropping systems. According to…

I am very fond of most any flower that is currently in bloom, but if I had to live the remainder of my life on a desert island and could only bring one plant with…

There’s something about these shorter, cooler days as the season winds down that makes you wish you could hold onto just a little bit of summer for later—for the more extreme months, for the harder…

I always imagine what our new Learning Apiary must look like to visitors—walking up to it for the first time, it almost looks like a garden picture with a beautiful apiary in the middle. But…

Did you know that Labor Day is when beekeepers begin extracting their fall honey? Let’s start from the beginning with how bees make honey. It all begins at the flower—flowers produce nectar as a reward…

I grew up in a small town in New Hampshire and spent lots of time outside and amongst plants, learning to tend and grow plants through work in our large family garden. While in the…