I can’t remember a winter that has seemed longer, and more depressing in general. However, it is now officially March, which means that even though it won’t be warm and wonderful for at least another month or two, it is now permissible to reasonably expect that gardening season will return, and one must be prepared. […]
Organic Gardening
A Visit to My Kitchen: Amy Goldman
Author and gardener Amy Goldman is in my kitchen today, talking about her connection to the garden from farm to table. Amy Goldman is a passionate gardener and seed saver and a nationally recognized advocate for heirloom fruits and vegetables. She is the author of The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table, now in its […]
Creative Thank You Gift Idea: A Global Arrangement
By guest blogger designer Mark Kintzel Need a quick and effective way to give someone a big thank-you? With a little play on words, and an old antique globe, you can do just that. By packaging fresh flowers in a unique way, you can go above and beyond to thank or honor someone special. Here’s […]
A Visit to My Kitchen: Michele Owens, author of Grow the Good Life
Michele Owens is in my kitchen today, talking about her love for the all-natural, and her guilty pleasures, gardening catalogs and fashion blogs. Michele is a gardener, business writer, former political speechwriter, and author of Grow the Good Life: Why a Vegetable Garden Will Make You Happy, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise (2011). She’s a […]
A Visit to My Kitchen: Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti
Jennifer is in my kitchen today, talking about her long-standing love of pasta, her old-fashioned favorite kitchen tool, and her thoughts on food safety. Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti had her first garden—and her first compost pile—at the age of 8. Armed with vintage canning recipes from her grandmother and great-aunt, she began her journey […]
DIY: A Sight of Spring to De-Winterize Your Home
By guest blogger designer Mark Kintzel Right about now, I start seeing spring flowers sold around town. Colorful spring flowers are a great fresh way to snap out of any winter funk. So I picked up a few and combined them with some of my favorite vintage pottery for a bright and lively addition to […]
Students as Stewards of the Earth
by guest blogger Annie Spiegelman, a.k.a. the Dirt Diva A year and half ago, I received an email from Nicole Calmels, a sixth-grade science teacher at my son’s middle school, asking for parent-volunteers. The school’s garden had been neglected for the last three years, and she wanted to resurrect it with her class. I told […]
Food Gardener Survey
By guest blogger Laura Vogel. Laura is a second-year fellow in the University of Delaware Longwood Graduate Program. Her thesis research and career interests revolve around education and food gardening. I adore plants, especially edible ones. Starting at an early age, I was transforming bits of the yard into edible garden space: The sandbox was […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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