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Cake at Thanksgiving? Okay, okay. I know. Usually the week of Thanksgiving everyone is going nuts over the latest variation of pumpkin pie. But for all you iconoclasts out there, I offer a substitute desert for the holidays, or if not a substitute, at least an addition to your traditional repertoire: a delicious apple cake […]
Every year, I try to plant something I haven’t tried before. This year it was tomatillos. We got an heirloom purple variety from Comstock & Ferre. The funny thing is that for the first time ever, I also had a volunteer tomatillo come up amongst my tomato vines, so I had some green ones too. […]
What on earth do you do with a bunch of green tomatoes at the end of the growing season? A hard frost is coming and your vines still have a ton of unripened fruit. It seems a waste just to let all that potential food be useless after it freezes. So,what do you do? You […]
Whether you’re an organic gardener or an organic farmer, the productivity of your garden and the success of your endeavors all begins with the health of your soil. The industrial agricultural model that depends on more and more chemicals to fertilize crops and eradicate weeds, pests and diseases has wreaked havoc on one of our […]
Did you ever want your own greenhouse when you were a kid? I sure did. Ever since I was in high school, I thought it would be so cool to have my own greenhouse. But I have never really have lived in a place where there was room. I would drool over the catalogs with […]
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