Making Olive Oil

Photo by Rick Gush Moreno, our gracious and enthusiastic host, and the president of the oil cooperative show off the antique olive crusher. Moreno is responsible for the restoration on the antique wheel machinery and the public spokesman for the cooperative. I’m writing an article about how to make your own olive oil for Urban […]

Broccoli Snails

The good news in the garden is that the broccoli plants are all growing like crazy. The bad news is that the plants in one of the garden areas are infested with tiny snails. I haven’t been able to identify these little monsters yet, but they are chewing a lot of holes in the lower leaves of the plants.

The Two Arugula

Courtesy Rick Gush I plant cultivated arugula seeds densly, so I can harvest seedlings in early fall. It’s the changing of the seasons now, and this means that we’ll switch arugula types for the next six months.  We’ve been eating wild arugula since last April, and now, we’ll start eating the cultivated type.  It would […]

Red Hot Pokers

Some of my favorite flowers, the Red Hot Pokers, are just starting to come into flower in our garden these days.