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Transforming An Urban Driveway Into A Garden
Urban neighborhoods can feature organic gardening in every niche available. Martha Stewart Living’s June edition has an amazing feature on urban living; a transformation of a gravel driveway into a full-on vegetable garden. I’m fascinated with the idea and think this feature is a great example of how it is possible to garden every-little-space in [...]
Frankenstein Italian Vegetable Pasta Crockpot Soup Recipe
Today it is a cold and rainy summer’s day and I have a miserable cold/flu thing that’s slapped me down hard like a professional wrestler. The only thing I can concentrate on is the next cup of hot tea and the repeating thought that I feel like death. What I need is a good soup [...]
MNN.com and I Teach How to Amend Your Soil So You Can Grow Your Own Groceries
Mother Nature Network has started a great educational push to teach people how to grow their own groceries and make a difference in community. This week they invited me to participate as the host for a Google+ Hangout episode right in my front lawn veggie garden. Our episode this week was focused on teaching viewers [...]
How To Grow An Organic Sunflower in Your Garden
Of all the seeds I have ever placed in the ground, sunflower seeds are the most likely to produce, survive, and develop into astounding gorgeousness. They are reliable, edible, and beautiful. I prefer the giant sunflower varieties like Mammoth Russian and Mammoth Grey. This year’s favorite variety is Lemon Queen Organic Heirloom from Botanical Interests [...]
What Is The Difference Between Organic, Heirloom, Hybrid, and GMO?
Sometimes the massive amount of labeling and non-GMO-labeling and plants and seeds and EVERYTHING in the green shopping market is one giant hot mess. Some mad scientist has opened up a can o’ whoopass on us throwing in a drama cocktail which has all the subtlety of a reality tv show like Hell’s Kitchen combined [...]
Xeriscape Gardening – A Drought Tolerant Water Saving Advantage
This week my friend Jessica Edmondson asked if she could guest post on gardening. Yay! Below is her post which talks more about Xeriscaping and how you can accomplish it in your garden. I have been focused on drought tolerant soil amendments and drought tolerant gardening for years and think Jessica’s article is relevant. As [...]
Which Organic Chicken Broth Tastes Best?
Discovery: Foodies are broth crazy. It’s true – after I published the beef broth review I was surprised at the number of requests from readers for a chicken broth review. Use broth instead of water in soups, while cooking rice, or as a delightful way to add flavor to mashed potatoes. My favorite way to [...]
Simple Tomato Soup Recipe and a Chipotle Clothing Contest
Perhaps simple food needs to be redefined. Simple food should be fresh, with only a few ingredients, and easy to prepare or healthy to eat. I once joined a cooking class and the chef taught us how to make this challenging tomato soup. There was a lot of complexity to it – we used canned [...]
Which Beef Broth Tastes Better?
Several weeks ago I published one of my favorite Chicken Marsala recipes of all time. I placed a photo on the post of Campbell’s Beef Broth and there was a general outcry that I should be using an organic or non-gmo broth instead. I am not an extremist and try to use organic and non-gmo [...]
Urban Green Tip: How To Compost in the City
City and suburban composting is definitely possible. All you need is a small yard area or even a balcony space. Above you see two rainbarrels and a small composter sitting in my side yard. Making new soil is easy to do in this small space. To help beautify the area a bit, I surround my [...]
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