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Ask the Expert: Winter Garden Tips from Stone Barns Center
Before diving headlong into the world of blogging, I was lucky enough to enjoy a stint working in the fresh air as public programs manager at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico...
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7 Winter Vegetables That Taste Better Than You Think
Wintertime at the farmers' market can be a daunting affair. Vegetables in the winter develop thicker skins—root vegetables, stocky greens, everything covered in a layer of dirt. Just as it takes time...
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Recipe: Irresistible Vegetable Soup in 30 Minutes or Less
Soup for supper? It's my first first choice most days. But a hurried weeknight is not the time to try out a new soup recipe. Or any recipe, for that matter. You won't need to if you can remember three...
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Gardenista Giveaway: The Sharpest Saws from Garrett Wade
Anon, pruning season is upon us (as Shakespeare might have put it had he been an arborist rather than a playwright). With trees and shrubs dormant this month and next, winter is the best time to prune,...
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Bouquet of the Week: Winter Sunshine, With Poppies and Artichokes
For a winter arrangement inspired by artichokes, I decided to add poppies as a main floral ingredient. Artichokes are known as an important winter vegetable in Mediterranean cultures, and poppies, a...
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Kitchen 101: How to Cook an Artichoke
I love artichokes but haven't a clue how to turn the seemingly inviolable bud into a food; I conducted an unscientific poll among friends and realized I was not alone. So I scoured my cookbooks,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Editors' Favorite Chef's Knives
When it comes down to it, the choice of the best kitchen knife is as personal as the palm of the hand that holds it. Yes, a good chef's knife needs to meet some minimum requirements: a high-quality...
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Edible Winter from the Gardenista Photo Gallery
We're deep in the heart of winter, but there are still delightful things to eat straight from the garden. Here, we've rounded up some winter food favorites from the Gardenista Photo Gallery, a...
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An Edible Winter Tomato: Does It Exist?
The city that I live in promises to have everything, and yet, each winter there is a certain dearth of palatable tomatoes. Perhaps I am not the first to notice that the tomatoes in the...
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Garden Visit: New Roots Edible Garden
To the untrained eye, the people working the soil in the New Roots community garden on the campus of Laney College in Oakland, CA may look quite ordinary. But if you inquire further, you will learn...
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The Best $75 Jar of Honey I'd Buy Again
It was my husband's idea to buy the $75 jar of honey. My philosophy on such extravagances is always to say yes (it distracts him from how much I spend on shoes). My husband saw the honey while we were...
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10 Easy Pieces: Kitchen Compost Pails
The average American family throws away 20 pounds of food a month. And by "average," I mean me. This is the equivalent of stumbling upon a buried pirate's chest full of jewels and gold doubloons—and...
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The Inside Story on Dried Fruit: Healthy or Fattening?
Dried fruits are hailed by many as a quick and healthy bite for this "on-the-go" world. But hidden sugars and high prices are less than ideal. So we tried our hand at making healthy dried fruits at...
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Recipe: Quinoa Fruit and Nut Bars
It's winter, so we feel like hibernating. (Yes, that's a synonym for "snacking"—so what?) It's January, so we don't feel like giving up our doomed eat-healthier-in-2014 New Year's resolutions just...
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Garden Visit: What To Eat Now From a British Allotment
Vegetable growers in the UK love their allotments: ornamental kitchen gardens are for other people. With every plot a hymn to recycled chicken wire and corrugated iron, the wartime Dig for Victory...
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Week in Review: Eating From the Winter Garden
When we think of the garden's bounty, January is the last month that comes to mind. In this hemisphere anyway, everything is brown and gray and matted in a way that encourages us to turn back to our...
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Secrets of Success: Winter Gardening from Seattle Urban Farm
Today we're visiting a few edible gardens designed by Seattle Urban Farm Company, a member of the Remodelista + Gardenista Architect/Designer Directory, who also have some winter gardening secrets to...
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From Farm to...Brooklyn
Much of the food on the menu at Parish Hall in Brooklyn comes from a two-acre farm in the northeastern Catskills. At Goatfell Farm, permaculture methods are employed: fertilizers, mulch, and soil...
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Garden Visit: A Tropical Paradise in LA's Echo Park
The calm and peaceful feeling of seclusion from noise and neighbors envelops all visitors to LA jeweler Kathleen Whitaker’s sprawling and lush garden in the midst of the hustle and bustle of Echo Park,...
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DIY: Sunny Citrus Votives
Peeling a clementine, or any of the small breeds of bright orange tropical citrus, can inspire a certain kind of competitive edge. Can you get the peel off in one solid piece, or have you accumulated a...
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