Food Forward
Watch some food rebels take positive routes to make a difference in food and agriculture
Our verdict: I love veggies! Bake is a winner.
Recipe: I-Love-Veggies! Bake
It's new recipe time! This one uses foods from the summer harvest (mostly) and makes enough for leftovers. Mixing flavors of sweet potatoes, butternut squash and green beans also makes this dish colorful, and the delicious, savory sauce made from...cauliflower (don't be afraid) put smiles on everyone's face at the table. This dish requires some time, but it's well worth it. If you have a mandoline or a sous chef to do all the slicing, that will cut down on…
Ask Gardenerd: Low-Light Crops for Fall
An eager gardenerd wrote into Ask Gardenerd last week asking, "What crops can I grow in low-light conditions (5 hours of sunlight)?" Since not everyone has access to full sun, we're guessing this question has come up at least a few times for our readers. Here's the answer: You're in luck! There are many low-light crops that will keep you eating all season long. With 5 hours of sunlight, you can grow all the greens, as well as many root…
Heirloom Expo
Fall garden planning, seed starting, and the Heirloom Expo
Not so foreign, but I'd never seen a quince in person before.
Field Trip: Little Farm in Encino, CA
We're about to take you on a journey to a magical place; a place where tropical and rare fruits grow in abundance, where grapevines climb arbors, where goats, chickens, rabbits and birds live in comfort, all in the middle of a housing tract in Encino, CA. Clive Segil, the owner of this parcel just under 2 acres, calls it Little Farm, but there's nothing little about it. A group of Our Time Bank friends and I ventured out to Encino…
Ants on my Blackberries and Citrus
Getting rid of ants and the pests they may bring.
Fresh sage is fragrant and adds earthy flavor to fall and winter dishes.
Harvesting Sage
I have a confession to make. I've never really been able to keep culinary sage alive, even though it's a perennial. Therefore I've had very little experience with harvesting sage, aside from picking individual leaves, because it usually dies in the first year. Today, that all changes. With enough water and attention I've managed to keep my "drought tolerant" sage alive to the point that it is now thriving and ready for harvest. Not just leaves, actual stems. How-to: To get…
sliced zucchini
Recipe: Zucchini Quinoa Lasagna
This week, we continue our efforts to provide interesting meal ideas with the abundance of zucchini coming in from the garden. Are you sick of it yet? Hopefully not, because this zucchini quinoa lasagna (technically lasagne, because we're using more than one lasagna "noodle" here) is delicious. In this recipe, zucchini serves as the flat noodle, which makes this a gluten-free recipe. Quinoa really works as the filling here, all skepticism aside. The dish is meant to be vegan as…
Ask Gardenerd: Tree Roots in my Garden
A great question came in this week to Ask Gardenerd: "It's Yvette from Mar Vista!!! I have a BURNING QUESTION!!! We have a big big rainbow eucalyptus tree in our front yard that is causing big, big problems with our raised beds...the roots (mostly small tangly ones) keep invading and stealing all the water and nutrients from them and we had a horrible harvest...we want to put in a root barrier but we don't know anything about it. Might you…