Great Faith in a Seed

Every winter, during garden planning, I ask my husband what we should grow next year. To which I get the same few answers: cucumbers, lett...

March 31st marked the end of the 2012 Dark Days Challenge. March was a tricky month for local eating, due to travel plans, work demands, and...

Adam made his decision this weekend - no maple sugaring this year. I'm a little disappointed, but at the same time, this has been a yea...

February is fast-approaching, which means I've been thinking about onions. Onions can be transplanted as soon as the ground can be w...

Now that the snow has finally arrived, I am in no rush to get back into the garden. Before it snowed, I felt like I should be doing some sor...

Gardens help us cultivate the idea of "Waste not, Want not" - We can save seeds from one year to the next. We can use mulch to ...

Spinach is a Holy Grail vegetable for me. I plant it several times a year (spring and fall) in a specially prepared bed, water it thoroughly...

I had no idea until this year that you could grow sweet potatoes in New England. Sweet potatoes are a tropical root vegetable - not a cold-h...

Last year, I wrote a post about Swiss chard, a leafy green vegetable that I never ate growing up... heck, I never even heard of Swiss chard ...

Fresh tomatoes are a pure summer delight. The flavor is sweet, the texture firm, and the colors stunning. Though early and late season va...

Common names of plants and animals can be funny, strange and confusing. Think of the groundhog, woodchuck, or whistlepig - all the same furr...

A bouquet of fresh lettuce - lucky me! Where I grew up, peas and lettuce were a springtime delicacy, enjoyed during the months of May and...

Guess what April showers have brought this year? April SNOW!! It has been spitting snow off and on, and everyone seems to be getting real...

Wintertime is a bit slow for gardening, a bit short on daylight and a bit long on cold windy nights that are uninspiring for evening walks. ...

I had a hot date on Thursday night! With boiling chunks of apples - it was truly HOT. I got home late from an information session about a la...

The Internet is full of astounding information, some of which is true, some completely unfactual, and some that seems just a little odd. T...

It's been hot here... I know that rural northern New England has it easy compared to urbanites in NYC, Philadelphia and DC. But still it...

When I was a kid, I was not a particularly picky eater and we had dinner table rules about eating vegetables, so I definitely grew up eating...

I must say that I enjoy gardening almost as much as I enjoy eating... but eating does win out because gardening has time limits (i.e., dayli...