It’s super weird to write about wildfire smoke in the second half of October. It’s even weirder to need to write about wildfire smoke in the second half of October. Hopefully, the fall rains will have truly begun by the time you read this. But as I write, the smoke...
I’ve been sitting on some big news for a couple of months now, and just got the official green light to share with you. And can I just say, as a former newspaper reporter — whose job it is to find news AND TELL IT TO PEOPLE RIGHT AWAY — this has been really...
When the days are bright and warming but it’s not quite time yet for fiddling around in the garden, it might just be time to focus on edible and medicinal weeds. On one such day, I came across some beautiful dandelion roots – and it is a perfect time to start...
Herbes de Provence is a classic cooking blend from, as the name suggests, the Provence region in southeastern France. It hit my radar early in my gardening adventures, because it was one of the few recipes I could find that included lavender as an edible spice. When I...
Does this vegetable make you joyous to the point of defending your territory to enable eating it? Do you even recognize it? If you’re guessing it’s a cabbage, you are not alone. But actually this is radicchio (Cichorium intybus), a cultivated chicory and a member of...
