I love when a recipe drops in my lap that calls for ingredients readily available in the garden. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's like grabbing the…
Happy 4th of July! Are you sick of zucchini yet? Here at Gardenerd we strive to find new ways to use zucchini, many of which hide the ubiquitous fruit well.…
Blackberry season comes on strong, and if you don't embrace it, your garden will have an understory of rotten blackberries within a month. We've already frozen 3 pints of berries,…
What's a rocket stove, you ask? It's a stove designed to use 80% less fuel for heating, cooking and canning. How can you build a rocket stove in less than…
Spring is for cooking fresh from the garden. How delightful it is to run across a recipe, and to happen to have all the ingredients on hand, either in the…
Rhubarb is known for being the first vegetable ready to harvest from the spring garden. Well before strawberries or other sweet fruits are available to make jam, rhubarb stands tall,…
When you make sourdough bread you have to feed your starter, and before you can feed your starter, you are supposed to throw away a cup of starter from the…
While you rarely hear the word "crumpet" in common parlance these days, they are as tasty as they were in the Middle Ages (or more so, I'll wager). Similar to…
It's kale season, and we have (don't gasp) 28 plants...or so...growing in the Gardenerd test garden; 10 different varieties to be specific. What can I say, we love kale! Here…
You've got great foliage, but you pull a carrot and it's nowhere near ready to pick. How do you prevent this from happening again? The trick is easy and Christy…