DECEMBER 12TH, 2009 — I was born and raised vegetarian, and take a practical approach to my decision to continue the practice of selective eating: I learn how to kill animals. Simply put, if it …
Nasturtium Pesto
NOVEMBER 10TH, 2009 — Nasturtium are beautiful plants, spicy and multi-purposed in the garden. Aphids love them, so if you plant them make sure you plant them as a border crop. You’ll notice aphids gathering …
Time for Lunch!
SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2009 — As the school year begins, out come the brown paper (and chic reusable) lunch bags. But for those kids who eat hot lunches, enter Slow Foods. Yesterday, they organized a cross-country …
Final Summer Visits to Rooftop Farms
AUGUST 25TH, 2009 — Summer made itself obvious today: third and fourth-grade visitors from the Police Athletic League braved the morning heat to plant and mulch at Rooftop Farms. Our favorite morning activity? Using chocolate …
Liberty View Farms
AUGUST 16TH, 2009 — Liberty View Farms, an hour and a half north of New York City, is part apple orchard and part paradise. I drove up yesterday with Paula Crossfield and her friend Melanie …
Sundried Tomato Pesto
AUGUST 10TH, 2009 — To celebrate the beginning of tomato season, Growing Chefs took the stage at the New York Botanical Garden’s Conservatory Kitchen. With the help of two young gardeners, Julia and Janine, we …
Easily-Grown Salad
JULY 17TH, 2009 — Here’s a perfect starter food for all beginning gardeners: salad. Sow your tiny lettuce and radish seeds now, and in just over 30 days, your window box will have everything you …
Senposi Curried-Rice Wraps
JUNE 27TH, 2009 — Senposi (sen-poe-sigh), a Japanese, collard-greens-like leaf, has a new incarnation as a tortilla today. After cooking up some curried rice with currants, heavy with cinnamon and a touch of linden honey …
What Rain Does to Farmers
JUNE 25TH, 2009 — This year, the first two weeks of June have had more rain than any past June in recent history. It’s a bummer for our upstate farmers, who have found themselves dealing …
Greetings from the Bleak Midwest
APRIL 8TH, 2009 — In the grand tradition of Sesame Street, here are two discongruitous objects–now, can you guess which one doesn’t belong? The tricky answer is that, in fact, both images have a connection …