What to Grow in 2015 | 5 Plants to Add to Your Must-Have List
Wondering what to grow? The year is new and it's seed catalog season. Time to sharpen your pencil and dream big.
The seeds you plant...
Spring Greens with Jicama, Cilantro & Lime
Do your taste buds rule the roost? I started thinking about cilantro and cumin and sunflower seeds and had to put them together. The...
Winter Harvest Stew with Carrot & Apple
This winter harvest stew with carrot and apple is a new family favorite. It’s really a stoup because it’s chock-full of veggies and it’s...
Container Garden Carrots from Seed to Plate
Behind every carrot is a carrot lover. If that's not you, well maybe you haven't had the luck to eat one that's homegrown?
Warming weather...
Crunchy, Quick Pickled Spicy Green Beans
Green beans straight off the vine are hands-down the best way to eat them. Only after you’ve had your fill is it time to...
How to Make Wild Plum Sorbet
Who needs store bought when you can pick them for free? It's a marvel really.
These wild plums can be found peppering hillsides, gardens and...
Dirt-to-Dinner
Dirt-to-dinner, garden-to-table, farm-to-fork, fork-to-mouth... what does it all mean?
Not long ago I got a call from an old friend, Greg Gearheart. He's an organizer...
Winter Beacon
It's fitting that pomegranates are ripe and ready at the holiday season. Like the warm glow of a candle on a short day, or...
What To Do With a Bumper Crop
When it’s time to plant spring veggies, I do so with visions of summer bumper crops. At least with crops like tomatoes, cucumbers, and...
Fall Forage: Cooking with Pomegranates
When isn’t it a good time to think about food and flowers? And this time of year, with the anticipation of a Thanksgiving meal...
Easy Tomato Salad
It's no secret that I'm a craver. I get wild hankerings for anything cruciferous, avocados, greens and new potatoes or freshly picked anything are easy...
Purple Peach & Blackberry Pie
What happens when you pair purple peaches and blackberries in pie? Only the most amazing mouthful of summer.
Dare you ask what’s a purple peach?
We...
How to Make a Cold Processed Fruit Shrub
One of my latest obsessions are cold brewed shrubs.
What’s a shrub? Only the most unlikely and equally as wonderful combination of fresh fruit,...
3 Reasons to Love Apricot Season
It's apricot season and I'm reminded of why they're so amazing.
One. They never taste as good as they do right now. Time for picking...
Four Fab Edible Flowers
Some are honey bee hubs, others are pungent and peppery. There are modest, girl-next-door types while a few pack some punch. However they come...
Kitchen Garden Obsessed
It’s no secret that great ingredients make great food. Or that simple dishes quickly become amazing when paired well. What’s less known is it...
In the Garden | Food Tastes Better Outside
When spring comes and the greens are ready, the carrots sweet from winter and there's foraging at hand, I bundle up the cutting board,...
Make the Best Ever Blueberry Pie
What I look forward to most in summer isn't just days at the beach and bare feet. It's more than my garden, the blooms...
Fava Bean Foraging
Fava beans are either a cover crop with perks or an amazing food plant with perks. I haven't decided the order but it's definitely...
Summer Forage: How to Make Elder Flower Cordial
If you are what you eat, I'll take flowers please!
I've had elder flower cordial on my mind since last summer. The thought of buying...