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...
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...
My med-school bestie is starting her first(ish) garden this year. She’s mostly growing veggies in pots, mostly on the porch of her Seattle apartment. She’s found gardening to be a positive thing in her current pandemic reality, soothing and exciting and rewarding....
Yes, I love all the plants and their medicines. So it really is never fair for me to call one plant/medicine my “favorite.” Still, artichoke is one of my top-tier favorites. It started when I was a kid: My mother is always very proper, eating (and...
