What is Swale? It’s part public art project and part floating food barge with an edible garden and forest on a tenth of an acre that produces food for free. It has the ability to dock to different parts of the city supplying different residents …
An easy to put together salad with spinach, four different lettuces, yellow pear tomatoes, and served with an herb and lime vinaigrette. The recipe uses baby Bibb, red and green oak leaf, and lamb’s lettuces – but use whatever fresh lettuces you have in the …
Adapted from Cooking Across the South, Oxmoor House, 1980.
This split pea soup thickens up standing. In the event that it becomes a little too thick for your tastes, thin it with a little half and half.
Ladybugs are a beneficial bugs, and once they are released – it’s up to them to stay or not. There is no way to really keep them in your garden. However, if you create a nice environment for them to set up shop, they just might stick around for the long haul. This video shows how to do that with a bundle of sticks and a shower of water.
Magnesium (Mg) is a macronutrient that must be replenished during the garden growing season. Plants with a magnesium deficiency are easy to find, just look at the foliage. Magnesium deficiency results in a plant’s leaves turning yellow at the edges, and reduced leaf numbers. Magnesium can be …
Great naturally sweet salsa with fresh mangoes and pineapple. Using Anaheim chiles, it is a medium hot salsa. If you want it hotter, use a hotter chile.
Fresh turnips are cooked until tender, then tossed with melted butter, lemon juice, and parsley.
Book Blurb: Make the most of your CSA membership—or your garden harvest—with simple yet bold, inventive yet nourishing meals from acclaimed blogger Linda Ly. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs have connected farms to consumers and made people more in tune with where their food comes …