One of my favorite winter vegetables is the sweet potato. They are easy to grow, produce pretty, shiny leaves that beautify the garden and offer opportunities for creativity in the kitchen. They add fiber, potassium, Vitamin B6, Magnesium, Vitamin C, Calcium and Iron to your diet. And they taste good!

I’m just in from picking another small batch of surprise tomatoes, one of the gifts of our garden this year. My hands smell of the fresh fruit and they hold the promise of something yummy for supper this evening.
Every spring and early summer, plants begin to grow where

After all these years of gardening and cooking, I should know the difference between a zucchini and a cucumber.
So should the people who label the vegetables at the farm store.
Nonetheless, after a busy day of work on Friday, I went by my favorite farm store to

When I was a child, every playground had a merry-go-round. Some of them were divided into pie slices of various colors with a metal bar in between each section. Once every daring child jumped on, someone strong would push the merry-go-round and keep us spinning until we were all dizzy.

It’s that time of year when the kitchen is ripe with the sweetness of cooking jam, the boldness of simmering tomato sauce or the freshness of a just picked basil. I feel wealthy with this abundance because nature’s gifts remind me of the wonder of the earth.

In this part of the world, the heat, humidity and lack of rain have been a constant for the past month. If you’re experiencing the same thing, you might read “preservation season” and think about hours inside a comfortably air-conditioned house that keep your energy and health preserved and protected