So we’re back, but we’re different…and that is good.  We are excited to show you our new adventure and share our mission: to bring you the best seeds, the most incredible edibles and the bigger picture.

It comes from our continuing passion to garden, our celebration of the food we eat and the desire to keep you, the children and our planet healthy.  Our new company Garden In The Koop is a culmination of all our years in the greenhouse, in the garden, but especially in your garden.   Everywhere you turn its heirloom vegetables and healthy living.  What we realized is there aren’t a lot of easy, fun how to vegetable gardens that really give you a garden with good taste.

you never know who’s in the garden

Our Incredible Edible Gardens in a box are egg cartons (what else would we bring you from In the Koop than egg cartons?!)   We spent a lot of time putting together great veggie combos to meet all the different needs.    Next month we will bring you the Tea garden and The Apothecary’s Box.  Check them all out on our products page.

Of course we also have our Giggling Garden Line of seeds made for the young and the young at heart-be sure and check out the Dinosaur Kale, The Tigger Melon, the Green Zebra Tomato and many more gigglers.

So we hope you will visit our site and enjoy our new product line and that you will continue to celebrate the garden with us.  Give them as a gift or grow them yourselves; we have picked seeds that will last all year long.

You will find our products online at some of our favorite stores.  We will keep you updated about where you can find us, but we always like to hear from you about places we might like.

As a special hello to our new and old friends we are offering free shipping for all products during the month of May. Just type in friend for the coupon code.

Wishing you good health, time in your garden and even some giggles,

Laura

it's all in the dirt...

So this year at Garden In The Koop, we are beginning our Seed to Seed garden.  We start with a seed and will harvest the seeds and next year those seeds may be in your garden.  For us it’s all about the celebration of the garden and what better way than to keep the garden growing.  Garden to garden seed to seed, it gives more meaning to celebrating the garden and the food we eat.  Heirlooms and incredible edibles-that’s our gift.

Every year, year after year, it’s a learning process.  Too wet, too cold, to dry, too late- all of it happens, but the garden keeps growing.  Less tomatoes, more lettuce, earlier turnips, but still a garden;  lessons a lot like everyday life-continuing, growing, changing and accepting-all part of life’s garden.

This year, according to the almanac, we will have a “drier spring and a cooler summer” (at least for the Southeast) we shall adapt- more beans? Less watermelon?   See never a dull moment.  All I know is that this year the garden has been more fun, more creative, more like popcorn-always new ideas.  We have the Giggling Garden growing this year-Tiger melons, Casper Eggplants, Leprechaun lettuce, green zebra tomatoes, it all here.  See why we love what we do?    So check back-it will be a wild and wooly ride this year, but at the end we can promise you a feast!

garden surfer

April 6, 12:15 AM Burlington Wellness Examiner Alice Cale

Heirloom seeds for great tasting veggies that make you smile

 The annual Egg Roll at the White House was greeted with sunny warm skies Monday and included in the event this year was a farmers market. The Giggling Garden, which is consistent with the efforts that Michelle Obama has been making to promote healthy eating to children, was included in the market’s products.
The Giggling Garden , from Garden in the Koop Chapel Hill, NC brings attention back to gardening for families. The Giggling Garden products are garden kits that include the soil, heirloom or organic seeds and instructions but most importantly, they are interesting to children with names like: Green Arrow Peas and Dinosaur Kale.
Laura Baldwin, founder of Garden In The Koop, says “ In this time of economic uncertainty, people across the country have been returning to the garden. It allows one to grow food that is healthy and affordable, but importantly, time spent in the garden alone or with family is good for the soul. Being in the garden is therapeutic and a great way to connect with your children. We believe that our Garden boxes will make gardening fun and help people learn to grow the garden they’ve always wanted.”
30,000 attended this year’s event from all 50 states, and the highlight of the day was the giggling children.

Oh dear here we have these wonderful little garden kits that we are busily packing and shipping filled with lettuce and spinach and kale and sweet peas and it’s 90 degrees.  What’s a gardener to do?

great for containers

 My solution I check the Farmer’s Almanac.  They have an online resource that gives you two months of weather predictions and so far they have been pretty good. You just plug in your city and state and you get the scoop.  Try it http://www.almanac.com/weather/longrange   For my area, the Southeast, they are predicting a warmer spring (3 degrees warmer) and a cooler summer.  So it’s back to the packing because there are all those folks up north who keep calling and as for around here, there are all those tomatoes, peppers, watermelons and squash.  Besides, my favorite gardener Sue always planted what and when she wanted.  She told me her plants couldn’t read so they did quite well in her garden.  She put the cool loving ones in the cool areas and the heat loving ones right out in the sun.  This has been my philosophy ever since.  I grow lettuce late in the Spring-just in a more shaded area and I plant ones like Red Leprechaun or Freckles that are more heat tolerant. 

lettuces we love

The garden boxes are getting good reviews and it is so much fun when people send us pictures of their new gardens.  Feels very friendly and I like that…  Here s some pictures we’ve received and a few of our own.

seedlings waiting to move to the garden...seedlings day 2

seedlings day 2

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Incredible Edible Gardens in a Box

Gardening with our children

 
Located in Hillsborough, N.C., Garden In the Koop is grounded in green principles, priding itself on using heirloom and organic seeds, rather than the more common genetically modified seeds.
 
An idea that was hatched in a reclaimed, two-hundred-foot chicken house, on a historic farm, Garden In The Koop offers a unique line of gardening kits including the Giggling Garden, Heirloom Tomatoes, Here Comes the SUNflowers and Back to The Garden. Each “garden in a box” is packed, inspected and shipped from the chicken house.
 
“Our kits are great for those who want to add a few items to their garden, or just want to spend some quality time with their kids,” she said. “This is my passion and I want it to spread to as many people as possible.  But I’m proud to start spreading the news in my own North Carolina community.”
 
For more information on Garden in the Koop, the products and Baldwin, please visit http://www.inthekoop.com/.
 
About Garden In The Koop:
Founded in 2010 by Laura Baldwin, Garden in The Koop is the creator of the incredible, edible garden in a box.  Garden In The Koop has been “germinating” for 25 years, growing from a love of the garden, a love of nature and the realization that our greatest sustenance comes from the food we grow.  Garden In The Koop offers a full line of organic gardening kits, that come complete with everything you’ll need for your gardening – seeds, planting medium, planters and step-by-step instructions.

Posted on: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:02 PM

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