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Grow Your Own Basil Cocktail
An ancient myth held that if left under a pot, basil would turn into a scorpion. Medieval legends claimed that a patch of basil sprouted where Jesus’ blood fell during…
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Inviting in the Bugs: 11 Plants to Increase Garden Diversity
The Good, the bad and the ugly. Gardeners talk about bugs like they are characters in a Western; ladybugs in a white hat, aphids in black. Ecology, however, is much…
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What I’m Reading: Insects and Gardens
We do not see most of the interactions in our gardens: ladybugs and ants wage war, aphids give virgin births and wasps lay their eggs on the backs of caterpillars.…
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What Are Garlic Scapes? Grow and Cook With This Garden Delicacy
Garlic scapes are a rare delicacy. In spring they briefly appear at farmer’s markets then disappear. You may have come across them at the farmer’s market, wondered what they were,…
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Eat Your Flowers: 10 Easy to Grow Edible Flowers
Flowers are not there for our enjoyment. Think of them as that lit up “liquor” sign down the street; bright, inviting, the promise of something good. But, this promise is for…
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Urban Foraging: Vegan Mint and Loquat Ice Cream
In my previous post we explored foraging in the urban landscape. Food is growing wild all over our cities, we just need to retrain our eyes to see it. One…
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Wild Foraging: How to Make Horehound Cough Drops
When candy shops spelled shop ‘shoppe’ and children saved their nickels to buy candy cigarettes, you could buy unwrapped horehound cough drops covered in powdered sugar. These cough drops were…
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10 Children’s Gardening Books That Will Inspire a Love for the Garden
Children’s gardening books elegantly teach, entertain and inspire. I have learned more from the books below than from some of the lengthiest garden tomes. All of the children’s books listed…
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Garden Cocktails: The Bourbon Red
Most beet cocktails (not that there are many) are vodka based. For me however, beets feel like fireplaces, oak, cigar smoke and old men in tweed. Therefore, I pair beets…