Posts Tagged "organic gardening"

From Vase To Plate with Edible Flowers

Great news! We can eat flowers! Certain edible kinds, that is! Edible flowers are more abundant than you might think. The flowers growing in your backyard could just very well be the kind you can sprinkle in a salad or decorate a cheese platter with.

 

Pickle Me This…

Ever think you’d find yourself spending the day at a pickling workshop?  Neither did I!  But when I got that email from Happy Girl Kitchen, which I signed up for after Sunset Magazine’s rave review of their many do-it-yourself food preservation classes, I had to give this one a try.  And since pickling was the Read more…

 

Getting Dirty in September ~ Fall Garden Calendar

Just because summer is over it doesn’t mean it’s time to put away your gloves and trowel. In fact, September is a great time of year to garden and the right time to start sowing seeds for  your fall/winter garden. The soil is still warm from the summer sun which encourages newly planted seeds and Read more…