Articles by Christy Page

A Garden of Delicious Delights

A Garden of Delicious Delights

Read by Matilda Longbottom Listen Now:   July is a magical month! All those fruits, vegetables, and herbs we started over the last few months are filling the garden and the table with  
The Beauty’s in the Trying

The Beauty’s in the Trying

Last year, I grew the ugliest cucumbers of all time, I'm pretty sure. They were misshapen, bulging in the wrong places, and the most odd shade of orange. I don't  
The Joyful Days of June

The Joyful Days of June

Welcome to the June edition of Food Gardening Magazine! June is such a special month for gardeners. This is the time when so many of those early season gardening efforts are coming  
The Baer Guide to Gardening

The Baer Guide to Gardening

  I am not a gardening guru. My thumb is beige and pink. Definitely not green. I do not come from a family of farmers and gardeners. My parents were born and  
Gardening Piece

Gardening Piece

  I have been a gardener since I was three years old. Knee-high to my grandfather, I helped him in our front yard flower garden. I bent down to pull weeds.  
The Resilient Pears: A Backyard Odyssey

The Resilient Pears: A Backyard Odyssey

Growing up, our backyard was a battleground of survival, with one constant: the unyielding pear trees. In a garden where Dad's green thumb often turned deadly, these pears stood defiant  
Tarzan in the Garden

Tarzan in the Garden

I had what I thought was a normal childhood, much like everyone else. I thought it was completely ordinary to come home from school to our bougainvillea-draped hillside garden where