Grow Your Own Food With These 4 Helpful Products
You've mastered the farm-to-table phenomenon. To truly know where your food comes from, try growing it yourself–without hassle, of course. These four accessible products will help you eat fresher as you go garden-to-table this fall.
Winter Winner: Start a hearty autumnal garden with the likes of arugula, red kale, sparkler radishes and more, courtesy of Pennsylvania-based Happy Cat Farm's sustainable Cold Weather Seed Collection ($30).
Shroom Town: Forget raiding the mushroom stand at the farmers' market. Grow your own fungi with Back to the Roots's handy, easy-to-follow kit ($18). Simply mist twice daily to produce up to 1½ pounds of oyster mushrooms in about 10 days.
Strange Bedfellows: No green thumb? No problem. Frausto & Co.'s Garden Deck ($16) can help you plan a garden, no matter how big or small, with planting tips, spacing guidelines, harvesting timelines and more.
Johnny Appleseed: Sure, it may take a while to see the (ahem) fruits of your labor, but with the Apple Tree-to-Be kit ($22.50), complete with directions, you can skip the orchard and cultivate Ralls Janet heirloom apples at home.