Creating a garden that welcomes wildlife is a wonderful way to bring nature closer to your home. Whether you have a large ...

In garden boxes and random spots around the Battered Women’s Shelter’s playground last summer, women and children living at the shelter planted tomatoes, onions and herbs. The women and children ...

Gardens existed before gardeners, but gardeners can claim credit for the idea of shelters and trellises, structures that allow us to come closer to and enjoy our plants more in their natural setting.

Pacific Garden Mission, the city’s largest homeless shelter, is often the only facility with an open bed, advocates say. But some former residents claim that the shelter, as their only option, is not ...