Pacific Northwest gardeners can plant thornless blackberry and raspberry varieties like Columbia Star and Joan J this fall for easier, pain-free harvests.

In this month's Living Less Unsustainably, there's nothing like a heatwave to make you realize how hot it is - and motivate you to keep your home cool with as little energy use and climate impact as possible.

The tendrils that beans, grapes, and even some less desirable plants - like bindweed - send up as they strive to reach new heights really seem to validate the idea that plants are creatures with purpose, and consciousness.

In this month's Good Gardening, KLCC's John Fischer explores how vegetable gardening offers more than fresh, low-cost produce—revealing seasonal patterns, supporting wellness, and deepening your connection to nature.

Borrowing things from books to tools to flatware and dishes can help reduce your carbon footprint.

John Fischer loves growing vegetables from seed, but there are crops where he uses starts - sometimes for the plant's needs, other times for his.

On your next picnic in the park, or bike ride by the river, be the person who picks up a forgotten soda bottle, and don't be the person who leaves something behind.

In this month's Good Gardening, John Fischer explains how the opportunity to eat more mayonnaise, enjoy an exotic looking gray green plant, and marvel at the stunning purple blooms got him to reintroduce a specific thistle to his yard - the artichoke.

In this month's installment of Living Less Unsustainably, KLCC's John Fischer contemplates how important it is to be understanding of different ways people do things in different places, especially when it comes to sustainability practices.

Keeping your trees low and pickable is a lifelong process, but if life got too busy and the trees got too tall, you'll need to take drastic measures to get trees back to short ladder picking height.