Book Review: Food Not Lawns
Karen Sustainability, ecological design, and permaculture are growing trends and Food Not Lawns is part of that trend. The author, Heather C. Flores, is an activist and urban gardener who advocates…
Book Review: The Gardener & the Grill
Grilling is easy, gets you outdoors, and allows the kitchen stay cool when temperatures rise, but there is a whole lot more to enjoy with this popular method of cooking…
Book Review: Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms
Growing mushrooms is tricky and very different from growing plants. Stephen Russell’s book, The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms, aims to provide the basic methods of mushroom cultivation so small…
Book Review: Grow, Cook, Eat
The joys of growing your own food are great but are enhanced when the fruits of your labor grace the table with a flare. Willi Galloway’s book, Grow, Cook, Eat,…
Book Review: Small Holding Manual
We all have dreams for the “Good Life”; for some of us it is a house in a rural area with an acre of land, for others it is a…
Botanical Latin: Lycopersicon
Ly co PER si con Greek lykos meaning wolf, and persicon meaning peach Lycopersicon is the part of the scientific name for tomato and literally means wolf-peach. Tomatoes are a…
Book Review: Attracting Native Pollinators
As gardeners we appreciate the value of pollinators. Without them we would not have many of the flowers, vegetables, and fruits that we enjoy in our gardens and on our…
Book Review: In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart
Alice Waters’ philosophy of using sustainable, seasonal, local ingredients and cooking them simply to produce delicious, healthful meals is very appealing. This concept underlies her book, In the Green Kitchen,…
Book Review: Corn
After I read Gail Gibbons book, Corn, I realized how I little I know about corn. Sweet corn, corn muffins, popcorn are all family favorites but corn as an ingredient…
Book Review: Farming
Children in the city often have no idea of how milk, vegetables and meat are produced and link it more to a store that the countryside. They don’t know what…