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Design
Gardening With a Three-Year-Old Assistant
My name is Bethany Davis, and I live in Southern California. My gardening experience is somewhat varied. I grew up in rural Wisconsin, where my mother's in-ground vegetable garden was…
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Kitchen Gardening
Rosemary is Still Rosemary Despite Name Change
Rosemary by any other name is still rosemary, unless the Royal Horticultural Society decides to change its name. What will its scientific name change mean for vegetable and herb gardeners…
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Elderberry and Fire Cider Elixir
After I posted the recent blog on fire cider, I received a request for this recipe--so here it is. Hopefully, you froze some elderberries when they were in season, if…
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Wild Rice with Cranberries and Hazelnuts
We are gearing up for the annual Herb Harvest Fall Festival at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas on the weekend of October 2 to 5. For this…
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Summer Solstice: Time for Farmers’ Markets, Gardening, Seasonal Bounty and Weeds
It is that time of year again already! Today we celebrate the true arrival of summer with the solstice--the longest day and shortest night of the entire year. Not that…
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Kitchen Gardening
Herbs with Anise-, Fennel-, and Licorice-Like Flavors
I recently did a program at the annual Herb Society of America conference in Madison, Wisconsin thus titled; this is a modified version of the handout. Since we are celebrating…
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Design
Simple, Elegant Container Plantings
Today we’re in Malvern, Pennsylvania, visiting Carla Zambelli Mudry’s wonderful garden again. We’ve visited it before in the summer and earlier in the spring when the daffodils were blooming, and today…
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Grow an Herbal Tea Garden
Is there anything more refreshing than a glass of iced tea on a hot summer day? What makes that tea even more delicious is growing your own herbs to prepare…
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Farro Salad, Mediterranean-Style
Recently, someone gave me a bag of farro. I have cooked farro, which is a type of wheat berry, as well as kamut and spelt in my past, however not…
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Wild Weeds and Seasonal Greens
Just finished teaching a folk school class on Wild Weeds and Seasonal Greens at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas. We foraged for weeds and combined them with…