The first time I truly understood the magic of seeds, I was standing barefoot in my garden, holding a sun-warmed tomato in one hand and a pair of kitchen shears  …

Sometimes I feel like Lucille Ball at the chocolate factory when I’m knee-deep in harvest season and just can’t keep up with using all of my delicious veggies. Even after  …

Composting used to scare me. I should say, compost bins used to scare me. I had heard all the great things about composting: that it was a super sustainable and  …

As an idea, I think almost any garden is a meditative garden. Some, like Japanese rock gardens, are established with the intention that they will be a place of reflective  …

Lasagna isn’t just a dish–it’s an architecture of flavor, a blueprint for bringing people together around the dinner table. These five lasagna recipes take that beloved layered foundation and build  …

When I think about preserving sage, the first thing that comes to my mind is how I'll cook with it. Dried sage has a more concentrated (read: delicious) taste when  …

Squash is in my top five favorite vegetables and that’s partly due to the fact that it’s both a noun and a verb. You can squash a squash but you  …

As a lover of garlic scapes—the more-delicious alternative to asparagus—I could hardly believe it when I read today's piece, Scaping Lessons, and learned there are people on this planet that  …

If you find small, dry, round holes in your tubers, look more closely, and you may discover wireworms in potatoes. Wireworms can cause significant damage in a garden, but they  …

If I had to choose the most mysterious flower in my herb garden, it would be lavender. How to dry it, use it, and cook with it are all questions  …