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    Book Review: How to Move Like a Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines from Plants

    Here's my favorite new gardening book: How to Move Like a Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines from Plants by Deb Soule, (Rockport, Maine: Under the Willow Press, 2013) is a…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Tips and Tricks for Growing Oregano

    Oregano requires very little attention and happily produces many pungent, aromatic leaves with the most basic care. Pots or containers make a perfect home for oregano, which makes it handy…

  • How-To

    Deer Don’t Like Basil

    As long as gardeners have been gardening, they’ve been trying to keep wildlife from getting to the harvest first. A new book by Ruth Rogers Clausen gives 50 ideas for…

  • Article

    Coulibiac With Rice, Leeks, Mushrooms, Greens, and Herbs

    A coulibiac is a savory Russian dish baked in a pastry crust often shaped in a loaf form and filled with fish (traditionally salmon), vegetables, hard-boiled eggs, mushrooms and dill.…

  • Article

    The Herb That Keeps on Giving

    Chives are an easy-to-grow, oniony herb that turns butter into something better.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Tips and Tricks for Growing Basil

    When I first fell in love with gardening, my biggest seducer was herbs. I found herbs to be not only one of the easiest types of plants to grow, but…

  • Article

    Perfect Plant Pairings

    Just like pairing wine with food, vegetables can be matched with their most compatible herbs. A good pairing brings out the flavors of each to help you get the most…

  • Article

    Savory for Winter Dishes

    I’ve been discussing the robust herbs for warming winter dishes in my blogs for January and part of February and Savory is my last, but not least entry. I believe…

  • Article

    Vegetarian Chili

    This hearty, satisfying chili is made with tofu or tempeh.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    How to Grow Coriander

    Cilantro (Chinese parsley) may resemble its namesake, but it's not the wall flower that parsley is in the garden.