At the Gate

Read by Michael Flamel

Announcing: GreenPrints Joins a Larger Family of Gardeners!

GGreat news! Actually, some of the best type of news for us gardeners. GreenPrints has joined Food Gardening Network, so that you get full access to even more practical gardening advice and tips for growing good food in your home garden.

Nothing is changing about GreenPrints itself—you’ll still get monthly printable magazine issues, filled with joyful, funny, inspiring, and enchanting gardening-themed stories. And you’ll still be able to listen to the audio recordings of every issue’s stories.

But, now you get a whole lot more! And at no extra cost to you. More about all that in a minute.

What’s really exciting is that our GreenPrints community has merged with a larger gardening community, so that we’re 400,000+ strong now! You now have access to like-minded gardeners who share your passion for cultivating gardens, savoring delicious meals, and enjoying garden-themed stories.

I encourage you to become active at our website whenever you need advice, tips, or ideas for your own gardening efforts—all you have to do is comment on stories and posts with your own questions … or share your experiences and advice with others. Food Gardening Network is a large, diverse, and thriving community of gardeners helping gardeners—and all of us get satisfaction from helping each other.

And by joining Food Gardening Network, you’re automatically upgraded, for FREE, to Food Gardening Network Gold Club Membership—and that includes all the GreenPrints content you’ve been enjoying, plus a whole lot more. You get a full library of magazine issues from 3 different magazines, articles, gardening guides, videos, kits, and recipes, including:

• GreenPrints Magazine—You continue to get monthly digital magazine issues that deliver entertaining and enjoyable gardening-themed stories and tales, plus gorgeous artwork.
• Food Gardening Magazine—Please check out the library of monthly issues filled with articles about how to start, maintain, and harvest food from your home garden.
• RecipeLion Magazine—Please try out some of the hundreds of delicious and easy-to-make recipes at your fingertips … and use the tips and tricks for developing new cooking skills.
• Gardening GuideBooks—You have instant and unlimited access to more than 65 premium, curated Gardening GuideBooks that cover food-plant-specific topics and flower and tree gardening. Access all the Gardening GuideBooks now!
• Cookbooks & Recipe Collections—You get full and immediate access to 15 digital cookbooks and recipe collections, with more than 1,340 quick-and-easy, garden-fresh recipes. Never run out of ways to enjoy the fruits of your gardening labor. From single dishes to a whole meal—we’ve got you covered!
• Video Library—Please take time to watch some of the more than 90 videos in our library with gardening tips, tricks, and tactics; do-it-yourself projects for gardening and crafting items; and cooking videos to show you exactly how to make specific dishes.
• DIY Crafting Kits—You have full access to printable garden planning calendars to help keep your garden on track, Garden and Recipe Card kits, Greeting Card kits, and gorgeous ArtPrints kits for adorning your walls with beautiful artwork.

And now we bring you this September 2024 issue of GreenPrints for you to find joy, relaxation, and inspiration!
Here’s a quick summary of what’s new in this issue—I know you’ll enjoy all this:

• Gardening News: Executive Publisher Don Nicholas shares with you his monthly commentary, this time about 10 new plant varieties you might want to try. And Don covers all the growing zones, so there’s something for everyone!
• Garden Planning: Every month, you get advice—and some fun—about a practical, seasonal gardening matter. This month, Food Gardening Network’s Amanda MacArthur gives you advice using and preserving your Summer herbs and planning for a Fall herb garden.
• Cultivating Wisdom: Regular contributor Becky Rupp is featured every month, covering topics that divulge all sorts of facts you might not otherwise know. In this issue, Becky covers apples—the history, uses, reputation, and science behind these beautiful orbs.
• Garden Giggles: Perennial contributor Mike McGrath delivers his usual knee-slapping—sometimes gut-busting—humor about something in the garden. Get ready for some good laughs!
• Harvesting Health: This column is my own piece—and this month, I cover the health benefits of squash. Learn all about how healthful and flavorful squash can be!
• Green Perspectives: This month, stalwart GreenPrints contributor Diana Wells shares her experiences about the joy of hummingbirds in the garden.
• Gardening Life: GreenPrints founder Pat Stone shares his latest story about his gardening adventures.—this time, Pat reimagines the Adam and Eve story in the garden. Always a unique, funny, and entertaining story from Pat!
• Seasonal Thoughts: GreenPrints Editor & Publisher Christy Page shares her garden thoughts every month—and seasonally appropriate, of course! For this issue, Christy reviews late-season crops and fun festivals!

Plants We Love: Every month, you get interesting and fun articles about different plants. This month, learn about rosemary, pineapple, and barley!

And then there are the perennials in every monthly GreenPrints Magazine issue:

• Stories from the Garden: These mainstays have been part of GreenPrints since our first year of publishing in Spring 1990—34+ years of “gardening stories from the heart” that will lift your spirits and make you smile or laugh.
• Garden to Table Journeys: Every month, you get easy-to-make and delicious recipes to help give your cooking a broader range.
• Letters to GreenPrints: Read messages that readers have sent us—good feedback and sometimes constructive criticism. Read these messages, and we hope you’ll be inspired to send us your own feedback to share.
• Kits: This month, you get books, ArtPrints, and Greeting Card about butterfly gardening and harvest festival folktales, with the Butterfly Gardening in America GuideBook and The Harvest Festival … and Other New British Folktales. You get practical information about starting your own butterfly garden and enchanting tales of rural British life, plus ArtPrints of the gorgeous artwork in both books and printable Greeting Cards for sending memorable messages to those you love!

Check out this entire issue, and I know you’ll find some joy as we kick off the beginning of Fall and enjoy the waning days of Summer.

And let me know what you think. I’d truly love to hear from you, especially about all the Food Gardening Network content you can access and use now!

Bill Dugan
Executive Editor
GreenPrints

P.S. Congratulations on the FREE upgrade to Food Gardening Network Gold Club Membership. Please enjoy all the new content.

P.P.S. And please email me with your feedback about GreenPrints and all the new food-gardening content that’s part of your membership: bill@mequoda.com. I look forward to hearing from you. Or share your comments below, so all our readers can benefit from your feedback.