Fiddlehead ferns! This time of year, they’re all over the menus at farm-to-table restaurants and piled high at farmers markets. So what’s their story? First off, take a look: (image) That’s what fiddlehead ferns look like when they’re all trimmed up and ready for you to take home. Some people think they’re beautiful. I kind [Read more]
Archive for May, 2012
Lovely Flowering Houseplants for Mother’s Day Gifts
Flowering houseplants make a lovely, thoughtful Mother’s Day gift. Not to repeat a trite cliché, but they really are gifts that keep on giving. I have the three lovely plants you see above in my apartment right now. They were gifts to me, from me. They provide me with much needed companionship, and they’re [Read more]
Book Review: Grow Cook Eat
If there was a book that I could imagine that would teach me everything I needed to know to grow the edibles I had my heart set on from edamame and melons to garlic, tomatillos and tatsoi, this would be it. It would not bombard me with every known species of brassica or leafy green, nor [Read more]