Gardenblogs
Browse GARDENBLOGS BY REGION. It's open to all. Just send me your URL and tell me where you're located.
They're the voices of real gardeners and passionate professionals alike. Check 'em out, leavea comment or two, and join the fun. It's free and easy using Blogger. My favorite program - just as easy, more flexible and still inexpensive - is Typepad, which you can get to by clicking the link on the right and support this site, thankyouverymuch.
By the way, GardenRant, DC Urban Gardeners and the Garden Coaching Blog all use Typepad. And here's a post about these and other blogging programs, and don't miss the comments.
Visit the Blog Helper site of garden writer Kathy Purdy. She's compiled a great bunch of resources for the beginning blogger and beyond.
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My Favorite Gardening and Environmental Sites
My fellow Regional Garden Gurus have some pretty great sites - check 'em out.
Beyond Pesticides is a campaign against the misuse of pesticides
Grist reports environmental news from Grist Magazine
Low Impact Development is a work in progress but has lots of great information already
No Impact Man follows an amazing experiment by a seriously committed guy in New York City
Renegade Gardener is the site of an opinionated award-winning gardenwriter and contractor in Minnesota
SafeLawns is a great cause - organic lawn care.
Soul of the Garden won the 2007 Mouse & Trowel for "Best Garden Site"
Treehugger is probably the most popular enviro site there is.