Purple Dead Nettle Uses, Benefits, and Recipes
Purple dead nettle may be a weed, but it has more health benefits than many veggies in your garden. Keep reading to see purple dead nettle uses, benefits, and some great medicinal and culinary recipes.
Kitchen Gardening
Essential List of Edible Flowers (with Pictures!)
There’s more food waiting to be harvested in your yard than you think. Here are twenty delicious edible flowers you’re likely to find growing right outside your door.
How to Make and Store Dried Tomatoes
With the growing season quickly coming to a close, I’ve got a glut of San Marzano tomatoes right now. Seems like the perfect time to try sun-drying them. After reading
Tomato and Summer Squash Cobbler + A Giveaway
Amanda from HeartBeet Kitchen is one of the sweetest bloggers I know, and I’ve fallen in love with her new cookbook: Smitten with Squash (Northern Plate). Since my squash plants
Summer Fun + Cold Cucumber Soup
It’s been almost a month since I last wrote a blog post: I don’t think I’ve ever taken this long of a break! Why the silence? No particular reason except
Nutritional Benefits of Eggs + A Giveaway
Once a month, I excerpt a chapter from my book and partner with the folks from MightyNest on a related giveaway. This month, I’m focusing on the health benefits of
Use What You’ve Got: Rhubarb #SaveItSunday
A couple of months ago, I wrote here about how my garden was very much in need of some “TLC”. Well, my dear husband and I have been working steadily
How To Plant Strawberries in a Container
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Organic Choice for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. I was in my local farm/garden shop last week and
Organic Container Gardening
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Organic Choice. All opinions are 100% mine. As I mentioned in a recent post, we purchased our home because
Homemade Mint Extract Recipe
I’ve signed up for National Blog Posting Month which means I’m blogging every day of November, 2013. Is this crazy? Possibly, but I love a challenge. I mentioned this homemade
How to Grow Your Own Garlic
My whole family adores garlic… I use it in my cooking just about every day and my 10 year old daughter even eats it raw! In order to have a
Preparing For The First Frost (and Fall Garden Clean Up Tips)
I spend a lot of time fretting about the weather: it’s the gardener in me. Starting early in the spring, worries about temperature and precipitation occupy my brain space on
One Simple Change: Grow Your Own
Welcome to my 24th One Simple Change post, my friends! {New here? Wondering what the heck is One Simple Change? It’s my year-long series of posts that focus on small
One Simple Change: Get Closer to Your Food
This past weekend was my son Dylan’s Bar Mitzvah. It was everything we were hoping it would be and much, much more…thank you all for the sweet wishes leading up
DIY Garlic Chile Sauce
I am kind of addicted to chile sauces. It’s true! I dab spicy condiments onto pretty much everything I eat. My goal with this recipe was to create something akin
Lemon Balm Pesto with Cashews
While I do love traditional pesto made with basil, I am also a fan of using different fresh herbs and greens to create variations of this versatile condiment. I have
Ginger Lemongrass Simple Syrup
Though I try to limit the sugar in my diet, I have lately become obsessed with making homemade simple syrups. I love infusing them with herbs from my garden…the flavor
Troubleshooting Compost
It’s Eco-Friendly Friday: the day of the week I devote to sharing something “green” here on the blog. Before I get to today’s post, though, I want to remind you
Rose Petal and Lemon Balm Jelly
A month or so ago, when my roses were in full bloom, I plucked what seemed like an awful lot of petals and set them aside to dry. My intention
Pickled Radishes with Carrots and Green Garlic
I’ve confessed before that despite growing them in my garden, I am not really a big fan of raw radishes. I find them passable when slathered with butter, and eat
For The Love of Homegrown Strawberries (with Honey, Mint, Pistachios, and Yogurt)
Happy Eco-Friendly Friday everyone! Today I want to talk a bit about growing your own strawberries, and I’m sharing the recipe for the delicious strawberry yogurt treat I ate yesterday
Thoughts on BlogHer Food and Spring Greens Salad
I returned from my first BlogHer Food conference late last night. I woke today feeling a little unsettled. I had a great time at the conference. I got to spend
Green Tomato Chutney
Frosty nights have arrived here in New York’s Hudson Valley. Sadly, this means the end of tender plants including tomatoes. If you’re able to salvage some green tomatoes from your
Pumpkin Clafouti
From soups to scones to smoothies, I thought I’d tried pumpkin in pretty much everything. Until today, that is…when I made pumpkin clafouti. Clafouti is a traditional French dessert that