Coming soon: the back story behind PITH + VIGOR, the print publication. The newspapers are all sold out and unavailable for purchase, but the spirit of the PITH + VIGOR newspaper lives on in this website.

These are an index of all the stories contained in those newspaper pages. Some of them have also been migrated to a web version, and I am slowly getting them linked – so make sure to come back and revisit this to see all the original content.

PITH + VIGOR  is/was a publication for people with dirt under their nails. This eclectic blog features themed ‘issues’ of user-submitted and in-house content, curious finds, noteworthy ideas, the personal diary of founder Rochelle Greayer, and posts on all aspects of being a garden lover and leading a creative life. PITH + VIGOR readers are dedicated and supportive. The publication was enthusiastically launched in 2014 with an indiegogo campaign that raised 150% of the goal and secured the first 500 subscribers. PITH + VIGOR’s goal as a publication is to be a catalyst for strengthening local gardening communities and fostering a love of outside design and a desire to cultivate beauty.  Garden-related businesses of all sorts are an integral part of the community, and we want to help them thrive.

Spring 2016 – The Reinvention Issue

• This and That: The Resurrection:  A Late Winter Cocktail
• Black Plants: Bring Out the Light By Going Dark
• Hacking Lightbox Photography
• Invasive Alert! MAM Vine
• People who Plant: A Rose Named Julia
• Duck Duck Grow!
• Let’s Discuss Matrix Planting Over a Glass of Wine
• Modern Masters: A Chat with Frances Palmer
• Curious And Quirky- Intriguing Edibles for 2016
• Botanical Sexism & the Allergy Garden
• Container Recipe: Bogolan- Inspired Beauty
• Shinrin- Yoku
• The Disruptors: David Milarch – The Man Who Planted Trees
• Juicy Fruits – The Tastes Are Gonna Move You!
• Salad For President
• Plant Finder: Saw it here? Buy it there.
• Calendar: What’s on?
• Crossword: Gardener’s Shed

Fall 2015 – Vol 4 of PITH + VIGOR

• People Who Plant: Into Africa with Eddie DeJong
• Planting Ideas: Goldilocks and the Just Right Plant –  Solving Common Plant Complaints with Joanne Neale
• Modern Masters: Neil Best – Landscape Architect and Stone Builder
• Backyard Biology: An Alternative Garden For Kids
• Slow & Steady: Jumping into the Local Flower Scene
• The Tao of Terrior (part 2)  – What Goes on Underground
• Plant Finder: Saw it here? Buy it there.
• Container Recipe: Kitchen Bonsai
• Calendar: What’s on?
• Growing Good Things – Fresh Ideas for Schools, Kids, and Youth Focused Gardens
• Fascinating Flowers – Lisa Orgler
• Hope in Bloom – Kids Creating Cards for A Cause
• La Dolce Vite – A Refreshing Drink for a Lingering Summer with Joy Flanagan
• A Harvest of Agricultural Art: Agri-tainment Goes Beyond Hayrides
• Garden Tour: Sowing a Suburban Meadow with Claire Kettlekamp
• Crossword: Dutch Treats
• Thistle & Fig: E.H. Wilson & The Regal Lily

Summer 2015 – The Pith and Vigor newspaper.

• People Who Plant: Immigrant Gardeners – Building Bridges Towards Inclusion
• Waste Not, Want – Garden Betty Linda Ly Shares Recipes for Using All Your Garden Bounty
• Planting Ideas: Clematis, Queen of the Climbers by Joanne Neale
• Modern Masters: Kerry Michaels – Landscape Photographer – Seeing Color in Black and White
• Project Files: Driveway Drama
• Making Music To Save Seeds – An Interview with Music+Art+Seeds Founders Patine Vazquez and Daniel Balter
• PITT Moss – A Peat Moss Alternative
• The Tao of Terrior – Expert Vioces of the Soils by Bernadette Giblin
• Plant Finder: Saw it here? Buy it there.
• Container Recipe: Stately Natural Rouge
• Calendar: What’s on?
• Growing Wasabi – A Garden Nerd’s Challenge
• The Butterflies and the Bees – Illustrated by Paige Mulhern
• Throw Open the Gates – By Steve Bustin
• This and That:  Rosy Relief, Equisetum, and Topiary Tape
• Garden Tour: On the Rocks
• Crossword: Vegetable “Grow-ners”

PITH + VIGOR Vol 2 – Autumn 2014

• People Who Plant: On Location at the Harvard Seed Library,
• Seed Libraries: Community Seed Sharing Opportunities by Cindy Conner
• Planting Ideas: Mulch-less Gardening by Joanne Neale
• Modern Masters: Cliff Hakim – Creative Re-purposer
• WWOOFing on the Lost Coast by Hilah Connelly
• Cake Flowers – Learning to Use Garden Fresh Blooms Like the Pros with Abby Larson
• Not Your Mothers Roses: Identifying Sustainable Easy-Care Roses with Peter Kukielski by Pat Leuchtman
• Great Northern Potatoes illustrated by Samantha Dion Baker
• Plant Finder: Saw it here? Buy it there.
• Bee-Friendly Flowering Plants of New England – A Month by Month Guide
• Container Recipe: A Miniature Kokedama Pile
• Calendar: What’s on?
• Meadow Making 101 – A Plan for Rewilding the Lawn
• You Are Not A Plantsman by Rodney Eason
• A Visit to Richter’s Herbs as observed by Jason Logan
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle:  Seed Starting and Kokedama Balls
• Garden Tour: A Rock Garden Lounge
• Crossword: Hibernal Show-offs – Naturally
• Thistle & Fig by Alice Marten Krieg and Carmen Devito – Illustrated by Gideon Kendall

PITH + VIGOR Volume #1 – The Launch Issue

• Field Notes: Fresh Pickings from New England Coastal Farmland by Roanne Robbins
• People Who Plant: On Location in America’s Oldest Victory Garden
• Planting Ideas: Matchmaking with Fall Bulbs by Joanne Neale
• Modern Masters: A chat with Ken Marten – Terrarium Artist
• Making a Mushroom Garden: Learning to Design a Glorified Forest
• Plant Finder: Saw it here? Buy it there.
• We Grow Them to Show Them: The 101 of Giant Pumpkins
• Container Recipe: Wild Indian Summer
• Calendar: What’s on?
• Trends On Trial: Succulents and Green Walls
• Teas & Tisanes: Growing and Harvesting Camellia Sinensis and Other Steepables
• “Bees?” “Bees.” “…BEES?” “Yes, Bees” by Amanda Rotondo
• A Wormtown Pant Haven – Tour Guide: Matt Mattus
• Reduce Reuse Recycle: Papercraft
• Crossword : Flower Phraseology