Recently I went on a garden tour extravaganza and was totally inspired! Stay tuned for several blog posts on that event...
Several years ago one of my design clients offered me some white alpine strawberries (Frageria vesca var. albocarpa) from her garden. These small creamy white berries have a distinct taste, much like the candy Sweetarts. She told me wild birds don't bother with them since...
This spring we decided to grow our food - not only in the way of plants, but animals. Edible pets so to speak - as Novella Carpenter puts it. We grew two turkeys which would be ready for the annual celebration of Thanksgiving this November...
We have a turkey hen who just recently started laying eggs. The eggs are a bit larger than the chicken eggs and have a distinct brown spotting. The yolks are also a bit larger, but the interesting difference is the shell and membrane are much...
Fall is my favorite time to cook and experiment with new (and old) recipes! When I was 5 years old, my mother married a Moroccan man who played professional soccer in France, and came from a Muslim family in Casablanca. He spoke Arabic and French,...
Earlier this year I designed a wine bottle bed for the 2010 Northwest Flower and Garden Show display we created in partnership with Seattle Tilth. After the garden show I moved it into a spot in our garden and grew our very first RIPE pepper,...
Ok. So I have never been a great vegetable gardener - I admit it. I am usually crazy busy every spring worried about client's garden's and don't have too much time for my own. I do try though and that is what counts, right? So this...
At this time of the year, my daily ritual involves walking through my vegetable garden several times throughout the day to check on my plants, harvest, weed a bit and snack on the raspberries. Yesterday in the late afternoon I found a big squash plant uprooted ...
