City girl grows grub

With her snappy online videos and show Farmers Almanac TV, urban Gen-Xer Patti Moreno proves that you don't have to live on a big, rural spread to grow your own food.

She brings some green into the concrete jungle and earned the nickname "Garden Girl" from Home Depot sales clerks after many trips to stock her New York City oasis of organic treats.

On her gardening pages, you'll learn that you can grow your own salad with just a little window box or even indoors. Moreno is full of tips and tricks for cutting costs and having fun in the dirt, whether you're a novice or expert green thumbs.

Don't miss the recipes because you'll definitely want to cook up the goodies from your garden. Urban sustainability makes you the ultimate locavore.

She notes, "Urbanites act is if organic food is something new, when in fact, factory farming is new." Organic farming is simply the way people used to grow food, before the biochemical inventions of the 20th century.

For further inspiration, visit Moreno's library of links and resources.