Lately, I’ve been thinking about families with young children. Mostly about cooking with children, especially this time of year. When my children were young, we made gingerbread houses, hosted Christmas cookie parties, and turned up The Nutcracker Suite. The act of cooking and gardening with children always leads to a messy clean-up, yet the memories […]
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Gingerbread House Recipe
Every Christmas when my children were young, we made gingerbread houses along with Christmas cookies. We turned up the music for the Nutcracker and the kitchen became an art room full of activity and creativity. The act of cooking (and gardening) with children always leads to a messy clean-up, yet the memories have a long-lasting […]
Brussels Sprouts with Cashew Dressing
Interview: Scatterseed Project
Will Bonsall, Sustainable Gardener and Seed Saver at Scatterseed Project “Genetic diversity is the hedge between us and global famine,” writes Will Bonsall, author of Will Bonsall’s Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening and founder of the Scatterseed Project. In the Western Maine Mountains, Bonsall collects, maintains, and distributes plants and seeds, many of them rare […]
Chocolate Mint Granita
Brussels Sprouts Slaw with Cashew Dressing
Heirloom Flower of 2020
Every gardener has favorites, and Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, or Polygonum orientale is mine. An heirloom flower, it grows at the entrance to the kitchen garden, yet equally dramatic along a garden garden. The seeds originated in China, yet has been a mainstay in American heirloom flower gardens for over a century and the bees adore it. The […]
Summer Herb Butter
Recipe for Strawberry Jam (without Pectin)
Pesto Chicken Summer Salad
Community Gardens
June 3: Community Gardens. Yesterday, while the world was in turmoil with rioting on the streets, I felt a sense of ease, as I walked through the gate of our local community garden. Instead of noticing the weeds, the jumble of plastic pots, the slap dash methods that gardeners were using to plant their gardens, […]
