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How to Make Recycled Newspaper Pots for Seed Starting
Seed starting doesn’t always mean going out and spending money on all those nifty peat pellets and peat pots and plug trays. Often times, you can use what you already have in your house. This is a...
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How to Make Your Own Seed Starting (and Potting) Mix
Now that you’ve made your own recycled newspaper pots, it’s time to fill them up. If you plan to grow a lot of seedlings, making your own seed starting mix is a snap and it can be used as a basis for...
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Starting Seeds in Eggshells… Cute and Yes, Even Practical
You can start seeds in almost anything these days… peat pots, seed trays, toilet paper rolls, newspaper rolls, paper towels, or even that good old-fashioned thing called the ground. But have you tried...
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Make Your Own Seed Tape
How many times have you sowed a handful of teeny tiny seeds — onions and carrots, for instance, or even worse, those little specks called basil! — and wished you had a magnifying glass? Or sowed a row...
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Make Your Own Magnetic Spice Rack
Before we moved into our present home, we lived in a 2,000-square-foot loft in an urban neighborhood. Our kitchen took up over 200 square feet of that open space with cupboards and cabinets galore,...
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Homemade Herb and Spice Fire Starters
One of my favorite things about fall is the smell of burning wood and bonfires. Whether it comes from a backyard chimenea or a wood-burning stove, I’m always anxious for the temperature to drop a few...
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Recap: The CSA Cookbook Release Party
Wow. Just… wow. I was truly on a high this past Saturday, and I can’t even begin to express how thrilled, humbled, and grateful I am for all the people who came out to celebrate the release of The CSA...
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Let’s Talk About Native Bees and Why We Need Them
When we talk about saving the bees, we often think of honeybees, hives, and how we can attract these pollinators to our gardens. We read about neonicotinoids and their devastating effects on...
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Five Things Friday
The five little things that made my week… 1. After four years of waiting and watching them grow verdant in spring only to go dormant in winter, fruitless, our grapevines finally have… itty bitty little...
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A Grand Giveaway with OXO to Celebrate the Release of The CSA Cookbook!
I’ve been using OXO products ever since I started cooking… actually, before I started cooking. I still remember my first serious stroll through the kitchen section at Macy’s when I was 20 and living...
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Mallow: The Everywhere Edible Weed
Every spring, the first signs of life in my mulch (and everywhere else in my garden and neighborhood) are these ubiquitous weeds. You probably have them too. They invade lawns, landscapes, parkways,...
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Win a Native Bee House Kit Courtesy of Crown Bees
I just received a shipment of leafcutter bees in the mail the other day. Aren’t they neat? Or I should say, leafcutter bee cocoons. The silken cocoons come encased in the leafy cells the mother bee...
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Five Things Friday
The five little things that made my week… 1. Of all the turnips I’ve grown over the years, these Red Round turnips are the best. So sweet and tender right out of the soil! I just harvested the last of...
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Announcing The CSA Cookbook Road Trip! First Stops: Las Vegas, Denver, and...
(This picture makes me smile every time… over 125 enthusiastic people sat in this tent and listened to me talk at this year’s Spring Planting Festival in Mansfield, MO.) Pull out your calendars, I’m...
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Video: Watch a Mason Bee Emerge From a Cocoon
A few weeks ago, I received a shipment of mason bee cocoons from Crown Bees for my native bee house. I could already hear the little guys buzzing around before I’d even opened the box, and sure...
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The CSA Cookbook Road Trip: Asheville, South Central Pennsylvania, and New...
(Speaking to a full house at my first tour stop, The Writer’s Block! Thank you Las Vegas!) The CSA Cookbook Road Trip has officially begun! With my first talk wrapped up, I’m now making my way through...
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The CSA Cookbook Road Trip: Plymouth County, Providence, and Northern Vermont!
(Rain or shine, the book signing must go on! It’s hard to tell in this picture, but shortly after I arrived in Austin, a torrential Texas-sized storm moved in and brought unceasing rain, thunder, and...
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Five Things Friday
Two weeks and four events later, I’ve made my way across the stormy south and am heading north this weekend for the east coast leg of The CSA Cookbook Road Trip. It’s so hard to pick just five of my...
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The CSA Cookbook Road Trip: Chicagoland and Wisconsin River Valley!
(The most interesting and brilliant venue on my book tour: an urban garden center under the train tracks in East Harlem, New York. I am amazed by all the work the Gatanas family has put into creating...
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The CSA Cookbook Road Trip: Bainbridge Island, Portland, and Willamette Valley!
(Chatting with a passionate group of edible gardeners and urban homesteaders at cluck! urban farm supply in Providence, Rhode Island.) This post is bittersweet for me. It’s the last leg of The CSA...
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