A thin strip of coastal mountains that plunge steeply down to the shoreline, Liguria is the land of heroic farming; to make cultivatable land, Ligurian farmers have been piling up rocks to make terraces since about 600 BC when the Ligurians migrated down from the Alps.
There’s no doubt that spring has arrived around here.
Why pass up the green and blooming bounty around your homestead that many count as weeds or decoration: Make something to eat instead!
Heirloom tomatoes survive time. You can enjoy the history of these heirloom tomatoes as much as their enduring flavors.
Cultivated--or even wild--asparagus is an elegant, but hardy plant to offers more than meets the eye to eager gardeners everywhere.
Call them nature’s avengers - these botanical pesticides that come from the plants themselves are some of the most potent pesticides.
Too early! I regularly push the spring season, and I enjoy the machismo of having the first tomatoes in town.
I desperately need to clean out our little pond and waterfall.
St. Patrick’s Day is the traditional time for planting peas in my area, but I’ve only managed to actually plant them on that date once in the past 10 years.
Hooray! It’s the seventh day of March and my fava beans have finally started to bloom.
I’m getting antsy. Spring is almost officially here which means that very, very soon there will be dirt under my nails.
