10 Helpful Plants for Bug Control in Your Kitchen Garden
The joy of growing a kitchen garden in your yard is imagining the delicious recipes and meals you’ll create using your home-grown herbs and vegetables. Do you know what gets …
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Why Vegetables Grown Above Ground Are Beloved by Health Nuts
Let’s talk about health. No, I’m not your doctor, and no, I’m not about to make you feel guilty about the fact that you didn’t exercise yesterday. I, too, may …
Chicken Cordon Bleu
When Gail and I signed up for a cooking class in Lyon, we expected good food—but what we got was pure magic. We learned to craft Chicken Cordon Bleu, asparagus …
Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce
In a sunlit kitchen in Lyon, amid laughter and the clatter of utensils, Gail and I discovered just how extraordinary simplicity can be. As part of a French cooking class, …
Sweet Memories in Every Bite: Our French Strawberry Tart Adventure
As our riverboat journey ended, Gail and I spent a few blissful days exploring the old town of Lyon. Wandering through its winding streets, we soaked up its rich history …
Cordon Bleu & Beyond: A Culinary Adventure in Lyon
When Gail and I travel, we aren’t just sightseeing—we’re taste-seeing. Food is the lens through which we experience new cultures, and Lyon, the culinary capital of France, offered an irresistible …
Self-Seeding Vegetables and Herbs
Have you ever gotten so overwhelmed with a cherry tomato plant that you let it go, and then the next spring you had a million little cherry tomato plants trying …
Why Asparagus Takes So Long to Harvest
Picture harvesting fresh asparagus spears from your garden just as the sun pops its head up in the spring - it's a gardener's dream that requires a gardener's greatest virtue: …
What to Plant in April in USDA Zones 4-6
There's something quietly thrilling about those first April mornings in the garden. After what feels like an endless winter of thumbing through seed catalogs and sketching garden plans on scraps …
10 Easy DIY Garden Tools You Can Make
There's an anonymous quote out there about gardening that says, "gardening is cheaper than therapy, and you get tomatoes." I don't know about you, but gardening is definitely my most …
