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Tag: edible landscaping
Making Sherbet with Homegrown Strawberries
If I’m going to eat something with sugar and dairy in it, it may as well be made with high quality ingredients, in other words, homegrown and homemade. Try this easy three step sherbet recipe for amazing berry flavor.
Edible Landscapes Transform a Town
Pam Warhurst calls it “propaganda gardening.” Warhurst co-founded the group Incredible Edible in the little English town of Todmorden to promote eating healthy fruits and vegetables and growing food locally.
Celebrate Summer by Sharing Your Harvest
Celebrate your summer harvest by remembering to donate to your local food bank.
Plan an Edible Gardens Tour
Seasoned gardeners know that besides getting your hands in the dirt, the best way to learn about gardening is from other gardeners. This summer, consider going on an edible gardens tour, even if you have to organize it yourself. Here’s how…
Fresh Spring Pea Soup: Delicious Hot or Cold
Soup in June? Don’t panic, this delicate soup is tasty served cold too.
Snails in Your Edible Garden? Bring Out the Copper
Snails will look for greener pastures when you bring out the copper foil!
Fava Bean Spring Salad
Tender spring fava beans are wonderfully buttery – we grow them every year and watch the pods swell with great anticipation. In our family, the favorite way to eat them is to make a simple but delicious warm salad with a lemony dressing.
Edible Garden Photo Essay
I can’t think of a better way to honor our planet than to take time to appreciate its natural beauty, and that may be as nearby as our own gardens.
Spring Artichoke Salad
If you can’t grow your own artichokes, look for very fresh, young artichokes to make this raw artichoke salad. It will surprise you with its delicate nutty flavor.
Gardening with Greywater
If you believe in the responsible use of precious resources, namely water, then you’ll agree that recycling home greywater for landscaping makes lots of sense. Here are the basics you need to know.
How to Grow and Transplant Your Seedlings
So you’ve started your seeds indoors to get a jump on spring, and like magic they are beginning to grow. Now you’ve got seedlings. The excitement of having grown your own starts for your vegetable garden can turn into panic if it is still too cold to plant them in the garden…
Edible Landscaping Your Front Yard
Spring is just ahead and it’s the perfect time for bold action: adding edibles to your suburban front yard. If you have a conventionally landscaped front yard and you aren’t sure how to begin, here are some ideas to help you get started.