Designing the kitchen garden takes strategy, time and vision. In my new weekly design class, I share give you tools to take home to your edible landscape. Whether it is a new garden or renovating an established garden, in this class you’ll learn savvy techniques to establish good bones of a design. Participants also learn […]
Classes and Workshops
8 Tips for Kitchen Garden Designs
8 Tips for Kitchen Garden Designs It was well known that Thomas Jefferson loved to grow food as well as eat his vegetables, and sent his chef to train in France to prepare his favorites: sprout kale, and black salsify, Lima beans, Patty Pan squash, and okra, that became a prime ingredient for a thick […]
How to Write a Family Cookbook
How to Write a Family Cookbook Writing your family cookbook is more than simply recording the recipes. It’s a way to preserve family traditions and gives you a place to share stories, photos and techniques. There is no better time to begin than right now to gather the recipes and the stories to layout your […]
The Garden Tour
I opened my gardens for the Garden Conservancy Open Days garden tour this weekend. In the weeks leading up to the garden tour, it was hard to enjoy my garden. Mostly because I couldn’t freely harvest food nor flowers, in order to make sure every plant was in prime condition. It was also hard to relax. […]
New! Garden Design Video
There are a few things I like about the end of summer: the sound of crickets at night, eating tomatoes, saving seeds, and rethinking my garden design. To me, that’s the best part about growing a kitchen garden – it is always changing, evolving, and transitioning. I’m not a person who likes change of any […]
Drawing a Flower
In Praise of Drawing a Flower It’s a day in June, and I am sitting in one of the most beautiful flower gardens in the northeast, Hollister House Gardens in Washington, CT. On my lap rests a spiral-bound sketchbook; at my side is a knapsack containing a set of graphite pencils, a box of colored […]
Booktopia
In May, I attended a Booktopia event at our local Northshire Bookstore, featuring eight talented authors who graciously talked about sources of inspiration and read excerpts from their new books. The event left me spellbound by all the authors, the readers who attended, and the range of stories. Needless to say, I stocked up on my summer […]
Better Homes and Gardens. March Issue
If you are looking at the March issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine, check out page 118 to see an article about my kitchen garden. Titled: Green Giant. Here is a link to a pdf: March 2017. Better Home and Gardens Magazine Article: Green Giant. And a short excerpt… I Get Inspired By: Talking to other gardeners […]
Kitchen Garden Sanctuary
As I develop my new garden lectures for the upcoming season, I am reminded of the phrase, “When the world ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden.” Somehow, thinking about something small, such as how to design a garden seems so trivial in the bigger scheme of things, until I talked with my friend Pam Montgomery, […]
Seed Catalog Party
This year I am hosting a SEED CATALOG PARTY because SEED CATALOGS are like cookies, best if you can save them until you can sit down and savor, rather than eat and run. Of course its okay to snack on the way, which I do as soon as my favorite seed catalogs arrive: Select Seeds, […]
Fireplace Cookery
The art of FIREPLACE COOKERY may be lost with the current panoply of modern appliances, yet it if you can only imagine what it must have been like to feed a family with what seems like such primitive tools, it is lesson in culinary prowess. In your minds eye, strip the layers of sheet rock […]
Artful Kitchen Gardens
ARTFUL KITCHEN GARDENS. I’ll admit that I get my best ideas while in the garden, and one day I realized that everything I knew about gardening, I actually learned in art school. Here’s my top 10 things I learned in art school, to help you stay organized and creative in in your kitchen garden. One: […]
