Perennial edibles: A lot of what I learned about gardening, I learned from seed catalogs, always gravitating to ones featuring the odder varieties the better—plants promising lots of both personality and productivity. So when I got introduced to the nonprofit… Read More ›
Culinary Breeding Network: It’s seed-shopping time, time to kick off my annual Seed Series on the show and website, and introduce you—and myself—to plants both traditional and cutting-edge worth searching out to try in this year’s garden. Lane Selman, who showed… Read More ›
2019 TOP TIPS: Another garden season is complete, and we’ve just passed the end of another year of the radio show and podcast, too, which I create each week to share with you, of course. But there is also a… Read More ›
Though I mostly stay put these days, no longer inclined to move very far beyond my home range, apparently I’m intensely curious about the subject of bird migration, which came up in questions I asked during several favorite podcast interviews… Read More ›
GARDEN RESOLUTIONS: What do you plan to do differently in the garden in 2020? Maybe something that didn’t work out so well this year, or a project that’s been put off so long that it simply must be placed at… Read More ›
Garden Design Ideas: A few of the gardeners I’ve learned the most from over my career have one thing in common: They’ve worked at Wave Hill, the exceptional public garden in New York City, perched above the Hudson River with… Read More ›
By the time I finished fall cleanup in November, a few essential pieces of garden equipment were looking worse for wear, like that tarp I’ve been dragging around over a couple of seasons loaded with debris that suddenly looks more… Read More ›
Standing in my kitchen the other day I had a craving, specifically for sesame or peanut noodles, for something I eat when I do take out or go out to eat. Because with such flavors we think we can’t do… Read More ›
Research on bird populations published in fall of 2019 was alarming: 29 percent of all birds in the U.S. and Canada have vanished since 1970, a drop of 2.9 billion birds in our lifetime. In light of such news, Cornell… Read More ›