Urban Homestead
Jill Florio
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Pet and Plants as Home Resources
Everything you care for in your household should earn its keep, right back at you. And while I cannot vouch for your spouse or children pulling their weight, your pets and plants will!
If you've got a case of late winter gardener's and forager's blues, here are some projects and harvests to cure what ails you.
Garden Dreams and a Winter Meal
Which seeds will grow the best plants for you? Winter garden planning, and while you're planning, have a bowl of Winter Stew...
Keeping a garden and foraging journal will not only provide a record of the seasons, but help you be more efficient.
Eating great food for cheap; bringing common sense back to the dinner table.
Flowers and food from an easy-to-care-for native American plant.
Every garden task right now marries an ending to a promised beginning. Recipes for Mullein Tea and Autumn Vegetable Stew
Kitchens on the Road: Gifts of Time and Taste
Nourishment for the soul as well as the body. Food shared as a gift, and delight in the time spent giving.
A Taste of the Garden: Verdurette
This is a keeper recipe to see you through the winter, one that makes delicious use of your end-of-season produce and herbs.
Of Soup, Disasters, and Carrying On
Making sense of catastrophe through daily life. A New Yorker overseas shares her experience so far.