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How To Turn Gardening Into a Workout

Dr. Steven Blair, an exercise researcher at the University of South Carolina, say that just 30 minutes of low intensity physical activity per day is enough to reduce your mortality risk by 50%. According to Dr. Blair, it’s not obesity that is shortening our lives, but the lack of physical activity. Why not spend this 30 mins per day gardening? Most people get bored walking or using exercise equipment. What better way to get your...

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Hydroponic Farming Trends

From time to time we talk about the growing trend of people growing their own vegetables and food. Taking things into their own hands in order to save on increasing food costs, and also understanding where their food comes from if they grow it themselves. We’ve been starting to notice more and more government agencies around the world instituting systems for hydroponics growing to help with growing foot shortages amongst other things....

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Evolution of the Ultimate Plant Cage

How The Ultimate Plant Cage Came To Be The Ultimate Plant Cage has taken many forms from the day the idea was crafted into its initial form. It all started about 8 years ago when the founder of Global Garden Friends, Michael Donaldson, recognized an opportunity in the midst of his friends garden. What he witnessed was an arrangement of tomato and pepper plants that were producing large, healthy yields on the perimeter but were extremely...

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