Wild Dagga Motherwort Medicinal Herb
Wild Dagga is also known as Motherwort and Lion’s Tail. It is another one of the fantastic herbs to grow in the mint family.
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Grow The Best Organic Lettuce
Planning on growing lettuce this year? Find out what the best companion plants for lettuce are and how to create the perfect soil conditions for growing organic lettuce.
Amish Hot Pepper Mustard
Amish Hot Pepper Mustard is the perfect mustard to serve with a snack tray of hard salami and cheese with crackers. It also comes well recommended with meats like ham and pork.
Step By Step Tutorial for Processing Pumpkins
Learn how to process a pumpkin, step by step, and turn it into your own homemade pumpkin puree. It’s fun and easier than you think!
5 Healthy Edible Flowers For Landscaping
Discover how fun things become when entertaining family and friends with edible flowers straight from your very own garden.
Local Food: Organic or Chemical Free?
If you are a family who prefers clean food without chemicals, then you’ve probably sought out organic foods. This is great with the exception that the organic food you are likely to be eating has traveled across the countryside to get to your plate. What’s more is that it is most likely to have been…
Keep The Garden Wild And Educate Your Child
The place for fanciful dreams and imaginations are set free in the garden for you and me. To recall how a child learns is to take notice of all their little senses. They pick up every sound as though it tickles their ears. They touch and smell and pick apart flowers. The yearning to catch…
Heirloom Cabbages For A More Prosperous New Year
The folklore that surrounds us at New Years certainly revolves around a very long history of preparing cabbages and black-eyed-peas. Other cultures from around the world all take a keen interest in preparing special dishes to be served on the first day of the New Year. It seems to me that what could be deemed…
Scents of Rosemary Bring Meaning To Christmas
I love my herbs as much as my heirlooms for the folklore and the history. Have you ever noticed all the pretty little Rosemary Christmas Tree Topiary’s at the market for the Holiday’s? I’ve always thought they make such splendid little trees for Christmas. There are tales told of Rosemary as far back as biblical…
Committed To Saving Seeds: An Interview With Dirt to Dinner
One of my favorite gardens to visit is From Dirt to Dinner located in San Jose California. The garden’s curator, Julianne Idleman will be sure to show us all how to take the lawn out of the yard and grow food in its stead. Growing both in front and back of her home and everywhere…