About Don Nicholas

Don Nicholas

Don Nicholas serves as Executive Publisher for Food Gardening Network and GreenPrints. He is an active gardener whose favorite crops include tomatoes, basil, blueberries, and corn. Don and his wife Gail live and work in southern Massachusetts surrounded by forests, family farms, cranberry bogs, and nearby beaches.

Articles by Don Nicholas

The Harvest, Overflowing

The Harvest, Overflowing

Few images express the generosity of the harvest as perfectly as the cornucopia. A curved horn overflowing with fruits, vegetables, flowers, grains, and nuts seems to say that the garden  …
Little Ears, Big Harvest

Little Ears, Big Harvest

If Autumn’s harvest festivals leave you wishing you could bring some of that color and abundance home, make room in next year’s garden for miniature corn. These diminutive varieties produce  …
Our Favorite Herbs and Spices

Our Favorite Herbs and Spices

Recently, Gail and I embarked on an ambitious project to rearrange our herb and spice cabinet. Inspired by the flavors of our own backyard garden and some culinary research, we  …
Winter’s Brightest Squash

Winter’s Brightest Squash

When I was young, Winter squash puzzled me. I understood Summer squash. It grew in Summer, and we ate it in Summer. But “Winter squash” appeared to be a whole  …
Where the Harvest Shows Its Colors

Where the Harvest Shows Its Colors

October always brings me back to the harvest festival in Sudbury Valley, Massachusetts an annual celebration centered on two of Summer’s greatest gifts: corn and tomatoes.  …
Save the Best, Grow the Rest

Save the Best, Grow the Rest

  Inside every seed is a promise: another plant, another harvest, and another chance to grow something wonderful. When you save seed from your own garden, that promise becomes personal. The  …
When the Tomatoes Took Over

When the Tomatoes Took Over

Every gardener has that one crop they promise to plant less of next year. For us, it was always tomatoes. More specifically: San Marzano and Roma tomatoes. Every Spring the  …