Making Ancho Chile Powder
It's important to try new things every once in a while, because that simple act of diving blindly into the unknown is the very thing that keeps life interesting. Yesterday…
Tiny eggs on the undersides of milkweed leaves
Milkweed and Monarchs
Perhaps the most important part of any vegetable garden is the habitat surrounding the garden itself. Having a place where good bugs can thrive can be the difference between a…
Home Sprouting: Fenugreek for Health
Despite being called a "granola head" throughout college, I've never grown sprouts, mostly because I resented the fact that they found their way into places they didn't belong...like veggie tacos.…
A sign welcomes guests to the garden.
Field Trip: Quebec City Rooftop Garden – Les Jardins des Lauberiviere
One last stop on our tour of Quebec City's gardens: an impressive rooftop garden that anyone can replicate, at least in part. Les Jardins des Lauberiviere is a project that…
Tomatoes, peppers, onion and cilantro are simple ingredients to this simple salsa
Recipe: Summer Salsa
Last month's Westside Produce Exchange was amazing. The haul was beyond belief. Each person left with a bag filled with summer produce that rivaled any farmers' market. I brought poblano…
Rouge Vif e’Etampes much like the one we grew this year
When Life Gives You Destruction: The Pumpkin Massacre
Each year, we grow our own pumpkins for Halloween and winter pumpkin puree-based desserts. Most years it goes well, but this year's results left much to be desired. It all…
A Simple Guide To Digging A Sustainable Garden Pond
This week we have a guest blogger talking about a subject we haven't covered here at Gardenerd: ponds. Ricky Peterson is a nature lover who likes to walk in the…
Field Trip: Quebec City Community Gardens
Community gardens are glorious to me. The diversity of each member, the variety of aesthetic design choices, and the ingenuity of cramming as much as possible into one plot is…
A different kind of butterfly garden
Field Trip: Quebec City Gardens – Roger Van den Hende Botanical Gardens
You are about to be transported to a place of lush beauty, where rainfall is abundant but the growing season is short (only 4 months). Given these circumstances, the Roger…
Field Trip: Apricot Lane Farms
I had the pleasure of not only visiting Apricot Lane Farms in Moorpark, CA last week, I spent 2 hours working in their amazing vegetable garden. It was the kind…