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.
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 […]
In the seductive showing of spring, the get-up I look for and like best is the apple blossoms.
We never intended to have roosters, but when two of the rescue "pullets” we adopted grew long wattles and flowing tails, we realized the chicken life on our urban farm would be different than what we had imagined.
Cottage gardens are chaotic mixes of one of this and one of that, and while the big mess may be quite charming sometimes, the unfortunate result is a lack of fundamental power.
The Dinner Garden is stretching people’s food budgets by enabling them to grow their own food. Victory gardens are making a comeback. Envisioning a nation where front lawns, empty lots, medians, parks, schools, churches and community centers devote space to fruit and vegetable gardens, Texas resident Holly Hirshberg established The Dinner Garden in 2009 to provide […]
In the spring, I say an unreserved hurray for salads! The first leaf lettuces are such a relief and contrast to winter roots.
When one of my colleagues at work told me he had a friend with a rooster he didn’t know what to do with, I knew I was in trouble.
Liguria, Italy, is a steep place. When the funicular is broken, I know very well how steep it is.
