The peonies and German bearded iris have been lovely this past week.
Courtesy Purdue Extension/ Bethany Ratts In 2009, late blight affected tomato and potato crop across the Northeast and Midwest, but the threat of the disease returning in 2010 is unlikely. After late blight was such a burden in 2009, tomato growers in the Northeast and Midwest wonder if the potentially fatal disease will hit crops again […]
Photo by Judith Hausman Vanilla-poached rhubarb with cornmeal-cardamom biscuits. I walk past a rhubarb patch in (let’s call her) Mrs. Bloom’s yard nearly every day. Two years ago, I saw that while she is a wonderful gardener well into her 80s, Mrs. Bloom was not pulling her rhubarb. The gnarly flower stalk was unfurling and […]
For a hen at the bottom of the pecking order, Baby Jo really doesn’t have it that bad. But her status in the group is painfully obvious when the eating is good.
Trouble with the chickens these days. They are flying over the veggie garden fence and destroying it.
"Most teens’ moms leave notes like ‘There’s lasagna in the fridge, I’ll be back at six,’” my daughter Kelsey observed today. "My life is so weird.”
Courtesy PepsiCo Food for Good Initiative The Food for Good Farm, a joint urban farm project between PepsiCo and Paul Quinn College, was built on the college’s former football field. In a place like Dallas, Texas—one of the U.S.’s top burgeoning cities in a state that hosts some of the country’s best ranch land—it’s hard […]
Stay healthy while you enjoy summer fare on the grill with these tips.
While we buy a fair amount of organic produce and attempt to raise our fruits and vegetables as chemical free as we can, there are times we still resort to pesticides.
In the seductive showing of spring, the get-up I look for and like best is the apple blossoms.
