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Listen: Could gardens be the key to a healthier, safer San Antonio?

by Diego Medel September 2, 2025August 29, 2025

Gardopia Gardens is San Antonio nonprofit using gardening to tackle food insecurity, community health disparities and even crime.

Business & Development

Longtime Alamo Heights nursery transitions into public garden

by Danya Pérez August 11, 2025August 11, 2025

Where I Live: Lavaca

by Penelope Boyer July 5, 2025July 3, 2025

San Antonio Spring Home and Garden Show helps residents get lawns back into full bloom

by Maricella Flores February 20, 2025February 24, 2025

City Waste Management workers gather all of the items left behind by a homeless couple in their encampment in a wooded area off of Thousand Oaks Drive in North San Antonio early Tuesday morning during an abatement. The items will be hauled off to a dumpster and then taken to a landfill.

Photos of the Week

San Antonio’s Week in Photos, March 17-23

by Bria Woods March 25, 2024March 23, 2024

Garcia Street Urban Farm on San Antonio’s East Side. The historic hard freeze of 2021 is behind us and mountains of dead plants lie in its wake. Photos taken on February 23, 2021.

Got frozen plants? Patience required for managing fallout of Texas freeze

by Monika Maeckle February 24, 2021February 25, 2021

For Stay-at-Home Stress Relief, San Antonians Turn to Gardening

by Monika Maeckle March 28, 2020March 29, 2020

San Antonio Gardeners Embrace Pollinator and ‘Sustainable Gardening’

by Monika Maeckle March 30, 2019April 1, 2019

Native trees such as this Bauhinia lunarioides "orchid tree" flourish without supplemental water in the author's yard, which was co-winner of the 2004 San Antonio Water System Home Xeriscape Garden of the year.

Lifestyle, Uncategorized

How to Pour It On, Prune It Right This Watering Season

by Rachel Cywinski March 26, 2017January 31, 2020

The Little Patch Garden is located on the block of 405 N. Main St., tucked in between E. Pecan Street, W. Salinas Street and N. Flores Street. Photo by Rocio Guenther.

Gov & Politics, Health, Lifestyle

Weston Reconsiders Little Patch Garden Land Use

by Rocío Guenther June 16, 2016January 31, 2020