Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

What are those special ingredients that elevate a garden into a stylish and unforgettable space? What’s the best way to unleash your garden personality, and how can you create an outdoor place that’s uniquely your own? Just in time for another… [Continue Reading]

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Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

“Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd.” But forget about buying me “some peanuts and Cracker Jack,” as the 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer recommends. I would much rather tour the new 5,000… [Continue Reading]

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Creating a Cottage Garden

A proper cottage garden, explains Oxford Dictionary, is defined as "an informal garden stocked typically with colourful flowering plants." And that's the type of garden I've created at my home (Zone 6B/7), as you can see above. From self-seeding poppies… [Continue Reading]

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Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

One of my favorite childhood memories was running around the garden until dinner time, chasing after lightning bugs and catching tadpoles. Sadly, too many kids spend most of their summer time indoors, playing on video games or watching TV. This lack… [Continue Reading]

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The Corn Harvest

September 28, 2010
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”Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep And you shall have corn to sell and to keep.” Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) As you can see above, my corn stalks are cut. The ears have been eaten and enjoyed. And all that remains are good culinary memories.

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Pumpkins Continue to Delight

September 28, 2010
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“He beheld great fields of Indian corn, and the yellow pumpkins lying beneath them, turning up their fair round bellies to the sun.” Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Pumpkins have reigned in our autumn cooking, long before they started to appear on our Thanksgiving tables in the form of delicious pies. An important staple in Native Americans’ diets, […]

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Must-Have Plants I’m Growing

September 8, 2010
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“We have plowed, we have sowed, We have reaped, we have mowed, We have brought home every load, Hip, hip, hip, harvest home.” For the last few months, I’ve spoken with some of the nation’s most well-known garden writers, bloggers and personalities about their must-have plants. So, you might just be wondering which plants I […]

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Must-Have Plants (Jean Ann Van Krevelen, Lisa Gustavson, Mike Lieberman)

September 1, 2010
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It’s harvest time! So, these “must-have” plants are delicious and delightful edibles of all types. Three clever gardeners, from across the nation, show you how beautiful fresh food can be … and how you can grow vegetables, herbs and fruit in even the smallest urban spaces. Photo by Elaphurus on Flickr

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Show Family Farmers Some Love

August 5, 2010
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Photo by Isabel Gomes of UC Hansen Agricultural Center No farms, no food. That’s an important message to remember …  The people who supply your family’s food each and every day need your support. Consider these facts from the American Farmland Trust:

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Growing A Greener World Experts Share Favorite Plants

July 26, 2010
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As more Americans embrace an eco-friendly lifestyle these days, the timing couldn’t be better for a new PBS television series called Growing a Greener World, distributed by American Public Television. Growing a Greener World combines traditional gardening knowledge with a strong focus on sustainability – and provides plenty of cooking and preserving tips for your garden harvests. Each episode tells […]

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17th Century Recipe for Pickled Cucumbers

July 22, 2010
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Photo by David Salafia on Flickr With canning and preserving foods such big culinary trends these days, it’s easy to forget these skills are actually quite old. Canning is centuries old, and preserving foods dates back to ancient times. One example is this seventeenth-century recipe for pickled cucumbers. Although I strongly recommend you apply only USDA-recommended […]

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Let Us Celebrate Lettuce!

July 5, 2010
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“Lettuce is like conversation,” said the American editor and author Charles Dudley Warner. “It must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.”

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How to Make Elderflower Fritters

June 29, 2010

Old-fashioned cordials, medicinal teas and skin-softening cremes are just a few ways the fragrant flowers of elder (Sambucus nigra; Sambucus canadensis) have been used over the centuries. Elderflowers also make delicious elderflower fritters, which I’ve always wanted to try even though I don’t typically like fried foods. So, I did a little research and read recipes from The London […]

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Part III – Even More Experts With Must-Have Plants

June 14, 2010

A suburban garden in New Jersey. An apartment balcony in California. Acreage in northwest Ohio. These gardeners may enjoy the outdoors in different ways, but they all know plenty about plants. Here are their “must-have” plants for this year… Like gardening blogs? There’s a good chance you’ve read Kylee Baumle’s Our Little Acre. Her award-winning blog takes […]

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