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...
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I know we’re often fed up about all the food rules — eat this, don’t eat that, only eat that in relation to this, alternate all the thises and thatses to maximize the something elses… But in the last few weeks I’ve stumbled upon a new rule you...
Baby, it’s hot outside… Here are a few more ways you can use your freezer to help beat the heat. lemon cubes As I wrote earlier this spring, lemons have been my favorite fruit since I was a tiny baby. And I was lucky enough this spring to have a couple of...
I spent unfortunate number of my gardening years dismissing the idea of planting flowers. There were some exceptions: Calendula, rose, lavender — because those are all medicinal, too. But flowers just for pretty? What gardener has enough room for that? As you know,...
Over the last weekend in January, I spent some quality time in mine, doing winter-garden things like clearing blackberries, mulching paths, trimming branches of my olive tree, marveling at the green that’s surviving the season and the new life starting to think about...
