I’m the kind who trusts a friend’s opinion far more than a celeb endorsement. When Anna told me how much she adores Atlanta’s Farmer D Organics, I knew I would too. Farmer D’s makes and sells some of the richest, most sustainable compost, fertilizers and organic pest controls. But they are much more than an organic gardening store — Farmer D’s is part of a growing movement. Their site and blog are chock-full of useful information and inspiration if you’re looking to start your own biodynamic garden to feed your family and your community.
Seeing as today is Earth Day, it’s appropriate that we’re giving away one of Farmer D’s Urban Planter Boxes. They’re made on site from sustainably-harvested red cedar, so you know they are good for the environment. (And smell delicious!) Leave us a comment before 12/11c Monday, April 25th to be entered for a chance to win.
This week’ question: How are you celebrating Earth Day? Putting in a rain barrel? Starting a bee hive? Planting a tree?
I have been looking for a solution such ad this. We live in a condo so very little room for a garden. My oldest son (5) is blind and we have been working on a scent garden for him. This cedar box would be perfect for him!
In celebration of Earth Day today, I planted lots of herbs in small containers to get them going! But, my puppy keeps peeing on the pots! SOOOOOOO, I planted a rock today! Yep! – A rock that stands up on the corner of the garden where the pots are, and where Blueberry keeps peeing!!!! Imaging a cedar box … Green and pee-pee free. Whoo-hoooo!!
For the last few weeks, my children and I have been planting and nurturing seeds. Today, my husband is preparing areas in the yard to plant the now sprouted plants. It is our first time gardening in the desert and are looking forward to our own organically grown produce!
To celebrate earthday, this year, I planted perennials (salvia, yucca and sage) in my new rock garden, and a few trees planted (Crape Myrtles are my favorite). It’s gorgeous to see those bloom, year after year. Because it is also Easter, I purchased a yellow Lily plant. Although not a perenial, it keeps me focussed on the reason for the Season.
We bought and moved into a new home recently and we have been planning to get a planter box ever since, we just have four big plants in our backyard and this would be a great addition to our backyard as I wanted to plant some vegetables in it.
With a lil one and a new home, we already have lots of expenses, so were planning for right time, if we can get this planter, its gonna be “A dream come true”, for me…YAY!!!!
On Earth day, we are doing gardening in our front courtyard and planting some beautiful flower plants and also some bigger plants in the front, I love gardening and this planter would be a great addition to our backyard. Our lil one loves to touch plants and smiles at flowers and plants whenever he sees one. He likes to be outside all the time and enjoy nature. Him and I can do a lot of planting and gardening once we can get this planter box and grow a lot of veggies right here in our backyard.
I am trying to get my garden stuff planted in pots since I am moving to a new home in a month. I cannot wait to get my garden up and running again. I have had a garden at the home I am in now, for several years, but in my new home I will have so much more space. Love being able to enjoy hard work!
I gathered up my old computer, phones, keyboard and printer to take to a local electronics recyle event. I felt so good getting rid of my juck in a respobsible way.
I’ll be planting a tree and renewing my effort to walk, instead of driving, to the stores and other businesses downtown.
We are taking our 3 year old to the home improvement store to help pick out vegetable plants to plant in our garden today. He has been learning about planting and growing things at school and is excited about planting his own plants. I would love to have the cedar planter box so he could have his very own garden.
Very nice !!! It would look great on my deck filled with herbs!
We ordered the organic seeds from Seeds of Change to plant and bought a reusable coffee cup! Would love this box!
I’ve made it ‘Earth Week’ here at our place – I spent a few hours in the garden during the week digging through the mulch, trimming back plants, fertilising and getting ready for more spring planting (our bulbs are already peaking through!)… this weekend I’m off to get some pansies for our window boxes and would love the planter to put on our deck next to the kitchen full of herbs! Yaaay for Spring and Earth Day
I never tried it before u know be green person. I did just changed the bulbs into green bulbs. I wd love to have this one because I wld like to start plants veg. and fruits at my home. I dont have garden on my own.
i hope i win this one for me.
I actually did a redesign of my garden and have had many thoughts in my head about how i could change my garden into a eco friendly garden. Well what i have done is take out my old malibu halogen walk lights and installed all new malibu L.E.D walk lights, the light is just so crisp and i am already saving money on my light bill! Also i have installed rain catcher barrels at the gutter spots! I have also added new drought tolerant plantings! And when people hear “drought tolerant” they seem to think boring, well i tell ya, my yard is anything but boring! Amazing L.E.D lights, i’ve cut my water bill in half and a place i can just come and retreat too! I believe that the garden and plantings can set a mood and i enjoy the mood i’ve set with my eco friendly garden!
I’m planting a Cherry tree. I love the box and it would be perfect for herbs right out side my door.
My family and I began a compost pile. Each day we are adding things that would normally end up in the garbage. We would love to add this planter box to our container garden.
Since my company has been going “GREEN”, attended a lecture and I have been changing my ways at home, recycling what I can and now creating a compost and recycling the rain water. Organic gardening is my next project!
Spending Earth Day weekend cleaning up from winter before it starts raining again. Love the planter. I think it would be great for the lettuce. Those rabbits would have to get a hopping start to get up in that planter. Thoughts and prayers out to all of you that have had to deal with the tornado damage and Texas fires.
This is beautiful and I must have one!
love and want!
What a wonderful planter. It would look great in our little yard. I love summer herbs.
For Earth Day we went to the state park and walked the dunes. Picked up half a bag of trash that had blown in over the winter. Wonderful to see the dunes waking up after a long winters nap.
In addition to the typical chocolate bunny, the Easter Bunny is bringing my children gardening gloves as well as a packets of flower seeds. It’ll be fun watching them dig in the dirt in the flowerbeds in the backyard next week! I’m sure they will be eager to watch their flowers grow!
My property is mostly rocks and clay therefore soil is limited. This planter would be perfect on my deck with herbs grown in it and could be used every year.
I am in the planning stages of opening an herb shop, bakery, and tea room in downtown Hot Springs where we can offer fresh cut herbs, organic vegetables, fresh baked items,a variety of teas, and a small menu for lunch. There will be containers with herbs and flowers all over the sidewalks and throughout the store. What better way to celebrate Earth Day EVERYDAY than with fresh herbs and great organic foods!
This planter would look wonserful on my front porch with some border lillies in it please
I will be reading up on “water wise” gardening and completing the latest planting of perennials.
I have started a fruit and veggie garden about a year ago with my 2 kids. We started out with just the basic herbs and now we’re growing over 45 different things! We grow our own tomatoes, lettuce, grapes, figs, strawberries, all herbs on the planet, broccoli, cauliflower, artichokes, cucumbers, Swiss chard, carrots, pumpkins, eggplants, and even a pineapple. I absolutely love having my garden and we are all so proud of it. The best part about it is that my kids have learned about where food comes from, how to take care of living plants, how to pick the produce, how much to water and that organic food tastes a million times better than store bought. I highly recommend starting a home garden. It’s so rewarding!
This would be awesome to have for our front yard. Easily assessable for our toddler and the right height for her. We had plans of planting a large garden in our backyard, but we adopted two large labs that have completely destroyed the yard.
We celebrated Earth day by taking our dogs on a 2 mile walk to the park for our daughter to play. We made a cement stepping stone. We gathered all our planting supplies, seeds, dirt, and pots, then our daughter took a nap. So it will be an Earth week for us.
We are a green family year round. We recycle, donate to Goodwill, we reuse by shopping at consignment stores, and don’t over buy. I made our daughter’s baby food (when she was a baby) and nursed. We even tried cloth diapers, it just didn’t work out for us, unfortunately. We grow our own herbs, and tomatoes. We have all energy efficient light bulbs, and bought an energy efficient dishwasher. We donated the old one to a ReUse store. Our other appliances we bought buy the previous home owners and are new and also energy efficient. We buy local organic food from our grocery store.
It’s been amazing moving to Washington state where everyone seems to be making efforts to be greener! It’s very refreshing to see all of our neighbors recycling.
Im going to treat this earth day like its new years. Im making a resolution to pick up any garbage i see outside and throw it out. If its recycables i will sort it and put it in a bin to be picked up. Ive decided that when earth day comes around each year i will make new resolutions as well as continue the ones i already made.
Ooops! I didn’t do anything special to celebrate Earth Day but I have been thinking about keeping my garden free of pesticides this year.
Tending to my garden, its actually my dads birthday, so even better of a day!! Relaxing and enjoying our planet earth!!!
Love Farmer D Organics!
Earth day has been in my life for a s long as I can remember. Every year at the end of summer whaen all my anuals have seen their last days I reuse the soil for my raised beds. I also have aways kept my anuals that are still alive over the winter in the house. Every year I reuse containers and recyle them for the next. Broken ceramic Pots are reuse for drainage in my plants. This year I will be replencing my Much for less water useage.
My daughter and I have worked on re-using items that would normally just be thrown out. We have something called PreCycle in our town this week and everyone in our neighborhood puts things out at the curb that they don’t want anymore. It was very successful.
Moving to a new home in a week. So excited to start my organic garden! Composting, here I come!
Happy Earth Day! We’ve been composting in our California town for a while – it’s a great way to help the environment and get farmers some fertilizer!
I ushered in earth day hiring out some major trimming on my trees this weekend. One very old tree will be much healthier with a huge dying limb removed that was starting to split the main trunk below. While the guys were working in the canopy and below I started spring clean up on my garden. It was sunny, windy and in the 60′s. I cannot tell you how wonderful it felt! Looking forward to a long and joyful warm weather season!
I celebrated Earth Day by recycling every single item I could find that I was no longer using. Great day for spring cleaning! I would like to bring plants indoors so I can purify the air next!
Me and my husband have outgrown our present home, as we have 6 children and now have 11 grandchildren and they aren’t finished yet. We are looking to purchase one with a yard we can upgrade ourselves. I would love to run into Ahmed in our local Lowes and have him approach me and ask if he could crash my back yard. The answer would be YES lets go.
I will not be using plastic packing balls for inside moving boxs.
We planted a row of trees in our backyard.
used a push mower on Friday as opposed to gas/electrical to do the lawn
For Earth Day, I bought a tree to plan in my yard, I bought 2 cereal boxes for a free reusable recyclable bag. I also hang my laundry out on the line daily! I also bring a refillable large water bottle to work to drink tap water. Lastly, I purchased a 60 gallon rain barrel made out of totally recycled material to install in my yard. I would love the planter box to put out in the sun on my back yard patio near the rain barrel!!
I would use that beautiful planter to grow my own salad ingredients so the snails couldn’t eat the leafy veggies before me. It’s perfect for gardening in a wheelchair. Thanks for making this great prize available for someone!
I LOVE this planter. What a wonderful and beautiful way to extend one’s herb garden! I just know that my elderly mother-in-law will love this! She is always wanting to help out in the garden and this would be just perfect for her.
Sitting in the sunshine in my yard!
I am in the planning stages of renovating my backyard. I am excited and nervous. I will checking HGTV often for ideas.
I celebrate Earth Day all the time. My family is huge on recycling, saving water, using reusable bags at the store, reusing what we can. I am now focusing on trying to use the car less and finding ways to use old clothing for new things.
For earth day my Preschool class released lady bugs into our schools garden that grows veggies for our school. We also put together a composter to use at school. It was so inspiring my hubby and I are going to do the same at our home!