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Vegetable Literacy & Shishito Peppers

I had a belated mothers day well wishing call with my mom yesterday.  We missed each other on Sunday.  She really enjoyed one of the gifts that I sent to her….which was a copy of Deborah Madison’s new cookbook Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom.  I have a [...]

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Foraging with Tama Matsuoka Wong

I am so grateful for this handy visual guide to greens that can be foraged in the early spring (or at least as soon as the snow melts!).  The collection is part of a foraging story in the current issue of Martha Stewart Living.  Tama Matsuoka Wong (co-author of the lovely book Foraged Flavor: Finding [...]

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The 2012 Garden Report: Part 3 – The Champs

I think I had more winners this year than ever before.   It was a great garden year for me….how was it for you? 2012 Garden Champs I will plant all of these again and hope that I have as much luck as I did this year… Red Cherokee Tomatoes - These were given to me as [...]

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The 2012 Garden Report: Part 2 – The ‘Do Overs’

How often do you get the chance, as an adult, to have a ‘Do Over’? In gardening it comes around at least once a year. These are my 2012 experiments that for one reason or another, I am calling ‘Do Over’, and will give it another go in 2013.  But next year I will be [...]

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The 2012 Garden Report: Part 1 – The Chumps

I’ve said it so many times…my garden is a giant experiment.  I often wonder if regular non-writing and non-hirable gardeners feel that they have the same duty towards experimentation?   I sort of think so  - isn’t that part of the fun? (right?) …but it must not be on quite the same level. Anyway – as [...]

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Garden Fresh Tomato Juice

I’m overwhelmed with tomatoes.  My few beds are producing about 25 lbs of tomatoes every few days.  So I have this idea — now that school is back in session.   I’m making little morning gifts for a few mom friends (in honor of the first full week back to school)…it involves lots of tomatoes, souped up with celery, and the peppers [...]

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Cake Top Gardens

My first thought when I saw these was “Those aren’t Pillows” — (one of my all time favorite  and most quotable movies – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles) Nope, they are aren’t what they seem, but what they are is pretty amazing re-creations of beautiful bits of nature that you can put on top of a cake….and then [...]

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