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3 Benefits of Wildflowers in your Garden

It’s springtime and it’s sure great to see flowers once again coloring our landscape. It’s at this moment that I’m grateful that I took the time back in October to plant daffodil and tulip bulbs. I’m kicking myself a little bit because I didn’t realize how cool hyacinth is and can guarantee that they will join the lot come next …

Starting Seeds with Seed Pacs

Spring is upon us and I’m ready to get my vegetable garden going for the year. For the sake of adventure, I’m using a wide variety of Seed Pacs from Anew Green and decided to start my seeds indoors. Without further adieu, allow me to briefly show you how I planted my Seed Pacs. Step 1: Gather your materials After scouting …

5 Favorite Sourdough Starter Recipes

In my last post, I shared about my love affair with my sourdough starter. My initial goal in the beginning was to make bread. As it so happens, there’s a whole lot more that you can do with a sourdough starter than simply make bread — and so far, everything I’ve made with the starter tastes better than other recipes …

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An Affair with a Sourdough Starter

It was a year or so ago that I watched Cooked, a Netflix documentary series by Michael Pollan. It was in the “Air” episode that I caught the bug — the one where I had to learn how to make my own sourdough bread. After a bit of research, I quickly learned that the first step was making my own …

On Selecting the Right Compost Bin

After moving to a new city, I was successful in getting some semblance of a garden in the ground late last spring. It left a lot to be desired but the herbs, lettuce, and tomatoes were a definite success. Still, I have one important task to complete before I’ll arrive at some form wholeness as a gardener. That task is …

5 Favorite (but Dangerous) Holiday Recipes

I’ve become keenly aware this holiday season that there are some recipes that I crave just as soon as we enter the twelfth month of the year. And I’m going to warn you that most of these are hazardous for your health. Not really, but it’s not the end of the world if we ratchet up our sugar consumption just …

Stocking Stuffers for the Gardener in Your Life

In my house, stockings were the thing we anticipated most when we woke up on Christmas morning. They were thoughtfully filled with meaningful gifts and my parents always made us wait just long enough to get all worked up into a frenzy. As an adult, my love for stockings hasn’t waned a bit. This holiday season, stockings are the perfect …

3 Alternatives to Raking Autumn Leaves

I’ve done my fair share of leaf clean up in my day. Growing up, we had a couple maple trees that gradually dropped their leaves throughout autumn, prompting multiple weekly, after school rakings. Here in Oregon, an October storm seemingly caused the trees to dump their leaves all at once. After participating in a massive leaf clean up today, it …

Seed Pac Spotlight: Black-eyed Susan

In this Seed Pac spotlight, we feature Black-eyed Susans, the state flower of Maryland. They are a beautiful yellow wildflower with a dark brown or purple center. According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac these flowers grow up to three feet tall and bloom from June to October. They are excellent if you want to attract bees, birds, and butterflies to …

Acorns: You Can Totally Eat These Things

I was recently at the park with my kids, and standing under an oak tree, I bent down and picked up an acorn. Now I’ve observed many an acorn in my life, but for whatever reason, it’s never occurred to me to open one up and see what’s inside. I put the acorn on the ground and stepped on it. …