Why butter's better!
For many years, a major rift has divided this country. No, not urban versus rural, or even Democrat versus Republican. This split is the ongoing clash between-- butter and margarine . . .

Extreme Weather Stories
Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and Thunderstorms Did hail wreck your car? Wonder why hurricanes form? Do you live in an area prone to twisters? Check out this informative and interesting story about extreme weather conditions.

Holiday Plants: How Safe are They?
Are poinsettias really that toxic? Learn the truth behind the health risks of some popular holiday plants.

What is Earth Day?
April 22 is Earth Day. Ever wonder how and why Earth Day became a holiday of sorts?

Light Pollution: Are you a culprit?
Learn why the night sky isn't as dark as it used to be.

20 Ways to Save Gas
Gas prices continue to rise. Learn what you can do to help keep your gas consumption and expenditures down.

Which Gas-Sipping Scooter is Right for You?
As fuel prices escalate, Americans are joining the rest of the world riding gas-sipping motor scooters.

Jennifer's Garden
See how one Seattle resident turned her entire property into a model of urban agriculture.

Urban Gardeners: Seattle Tilth
Farmers' Almanac TV investigates community gardening and sustainable agriculture right in the heart of Seattle, Washington.

The Magnolia Family
Meet a seventh-generation Almanac Family in Florida that is hanging on to their farmstead in the midst of urban growth.

Green Spaces: Seattle Tilth
What is "Permaculture"? We found the answer along with a plethora of tips and advice for urban gardeners when we visited Seattle Tilth.

Build Your Own Window Box - The Garden Girl
Patti Moreno, The Garden Girl demonstrates how to build a window box from scrap, then mounts it and fills it with herbs.

Verlyn Klinkenborg: A Rural Life
Verlyn Klinkenborg, writer and editor for the New York Times, leads a life of paradox: half the time in the great metropolis as a newspaper man, the other half as a farmer in upstate New York.

Season One
Episode 2
EPISODE TWO: URBAN CHICKENS & GUITARSHear tales from former president Jimmy Carter about being a peanut farmer; meet the man who's crafted guitars for Eric Clapton and Johnny Cash; watch a Seattle landscape designer demonstrate how to raise urban...

Season Two
Episode 1
New York Times, columnist, Verlyn Klinkenborg converses with us about rural and urban life. His take on which is the hardest is surprising.Nickel Creek gives us a look inside their 2006 tour and long history.A father and son team...

Season One
Episode 6
EPISODE SIX: URBAN GARDENS & SOUTHWESTERN HEATMeet with the Moffits of Illinois and see their unique collection of antique tools, one of the largest in the world; investigate community gardening and sustainable agriculture right in the heart of Seattle;...

Season One
Episode 8
EPISODE EIGHT: WORM BINS & AMAZING LUMBERJACKSGuess how old one of the winners is in Part Two of the International Lumberjack Championship; meet a seventh-generation Almanac Family in Florida that is hanging on to their farmstead in the midst of...

Weird Atlanta Weather - Flooding Awareness
March 17, 2008 11:57 AM

What's In a name?
August 28, 2008 4:32 PM

Sacking Organic Vegetables
September 15, 2006 4:47 PM

Garden Girl - Patti Moreno
Patricia Moreno, the Garden Girl, was born in raised in New York City. She grew up in Spanish Harlem on Manhattan and was educated at Nightingale-Bamford School for girls. Her path to Urban Sustainable Living began in the mid 1990's,...

2006-2007 Weather Outlook for the U.S.
Tired of the Heat? Hang on – 2007 Farmers' Almanac Predicts "SHIVERY IS NOT DEAD"Lewiston, ME: After a brutally hot summer in most of the country, cool news is on the way. The new edition of the Farmers' Almanac, which...