Savory and Sage Tidbits Articles
Thanksgiving Centerpieces from the Garden
Leave the tissue-paper turkey on the shelf at the craft store this year, and adorn the center of your Thanksgiving table with one of these centerpieces, instead.
Tree of Thanks
Go outside and find interesting branches and twigs. Fill a vase with them, and string a garland of small red beads throughout your “tree.” Make little tags by cutting off-white card stock into two inch …
The Gen Y Gardener?
According to a recent talk I attended, there have been 7 million new gardeners entering our ranks this year. In a few years, Generation Y (people born between 1977 and 2000) will comprise 47% of the work force. (We are somewhere much lower than that now. I can’t find my notes.) If you listen to the mainstream media, we are portrayed as entitled, philanthropic, in want of instant gratification, constantly asking “Why?” skeptical of authority, …
Kid’s Gardening – How to Get Your Kids Interested
It may be difficult to imagine your kids gardening or even interested in it. They cannot even feed the puppy that they begged for 6 months ago. Interested or not, it can be of benefit to at least talk to your children about your love of gardening, and why you do what you do. Children may need to be coerced at first to peel away from the television or video games, but once they become …
Guerilla Gardening – Prepare for Combat
Guerilla gardening is a term that is becoming more popular and well known, particularly in large urban areas where folks who would like to garden do not have yard space to do so. Guerillas are also people who find it unacceptable to leave perfectly good gardening space wasted. What they all have in common is that they want to make something grow in a place that is unconventional, unapproved, or sometimes, illegal.
Some group are …
What Does it Take to be an Organic Gardener?
Some may dive into organic gardening with great expectations, and a feeling of pride at the choice they are making. However, when the reality of what it takes to be an organic gardener sets in, expectations become disappointments, and commitment to the choice may begin to fade.
For example, in many regions of the country, this has been an exceptionally cool and wet summer. If this is the first time that an individual has tried organic …
Organic Gardening Interview: Penni Shelton
If you grow your own vegetables, you can eat them in whatever form you would most enjoy. Anyone thinking about growing and eating vegetables for health purposes – more than casual nutrition – has probably come into contact with information about the “Raw food movement” or “Living Food Movement.”
There are various schools of thought about whether you should cook your vegetables, or eat them raw. The people who eat only raw food do not heat …
Down on the Biodynamic Farm
Baby Cows in “Daycare”
Over the past few weeks, I’ve come face to face with almost every facet of gardening/eating/organic/conventional agriculture. There was the trip to Tryon, NC for the BBQ and Bluegrass festival. That was an awesome meat-eating fest if I’ve ever seen one! We sampled lots of “chop,” which is BBQ code for “chopped pork straight out of the hog that is still roasting …
Gardening: Don’t Freak Out!
Today, the Twitter world is all aflutter about this article in the Boston Herald. To be fair, I almost had a heart attack while reading it. Then, I started tweeting in all caps. That is a sure sign of a mental breakdown. But, now all of my twitter friends are going to comment on the article with helpful gardening suggestions. That …
We Answer Your Gardening Questions!
This morning I was watching the Today Show, and a very prissy guest host was talking with P.Allen Smith about gardening, and they were planting lettuce and potatoes and stuff. He got dirt ( excuse me, soil) all over her arm and she freaked out. It was hilarious.
What was NOT hilarious, though, was watching them indiscriminately eating violas straight out of the cell packs. Yes, …
Strange St. Patrick’s Day Tradition
So, this will make my fourth blog post in as many days. However, I feel inspired to share with you a particularly strange family tradition for St. Patrick’s day. This is a short one, but a good one.
Every year, the night before St. Patrick’s Day, my Mom would take us to the grocery to select ghastly dyed green carnations to give to our teachers the next …
