Urban Homestead
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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!
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Ready for Spring
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.
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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...
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Journal of the Green
Keeping a garden and foraging journal will not only provide a record of the seasons, but help you be more efficient.
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The Frugal Feast
Eating great food for cheap; bringing common sense back to the dinner table.
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Jerusalem Artichokes
Flowers and food from an easy-to-care-for native American plant.
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Autumn Makes Spring
Every garden task right now marries an ending to a promised beginning. Recipes for Mullein Tea and Autumn Vegetable Stew
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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.
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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.
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Of Soup, Disasters, and Carrying On
Making sense of catastrophe through daily life. A New Yorker overseas shares her experience so far.
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One of Those Days
Comfort foods for trying times. Recipes to satisfy your soul
when you are in need.
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City Kids In The Garden
City kids visit a community garden in Brooklyn and learn to value green spaces.
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Maters for Later
Sun-ripened, homegrown tomatoes are the height of summer's abundance, and they are at their peak now. Here are two simple, quick ways to preserve some of the harvest for the cold time.
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In Season
Celebrate the year by enjoying each month's special offering from the vegetable garden, market, or the wild. It's not only good for you and the planet, it also tastes better.
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Summer's Bounty
The wealth of Summer is in the abundance of wild and cultivated foods that are ready to harvest. Share the wealth!
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Choices, Weeds, and Gardener's Respect
Treating the plants in your garden with respect, even when you've decided they've got to go.
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A Sip of Wild Wine
Once upon a time there were more herbs in beer than just hops and more fruits in wine than just grapes. Make your own with simple ingredients and simple instructions! This article is Backwash Approved.
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Making Herbal Vinegars
Easy recipes for making herbal vinegars from fresh or dried herbs. Caution: herbal crafts and recipes can be addictive!
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Survival's Source: Rediscovering the Green
Beans don't come from the supermarket, and survival isn't really about how not to get lost on the subway! Foraging and gardening in the city restore our connection to what really keeps us alive.
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Live Happy, Live Long
Maybe appreciation of butter and wine is better for you than
guilt and hectic work? Recipes for Cream-Of-Almost-Anything-Soup
and Herbal Infused Wines
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Wild Violets: City Herbs, Part Two
Welcome this emisary of Spring! Violets bring food, medicine and beauty into our lives. Recipes, links, and a tangent or two.
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A Springtime Supper
An invitation to a celebration of Spring! Recipes for Creamed Sorrel Soup, Springtime Salad, and Dandelion Quiche.
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City Herbs, Part One: Mugwort
The herbs and edible plants you've been seeking are growing on your doorstep--grab a field guide, and step outside! The first article in City Herbs focuses on Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris.
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Herbal Shoulder Pillows
How to make herbal shoulder bags for instant stress relief.
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February's Indoor Garden
Can't wait till Spring to get started in the garden? Here are some suggestions for seeds that are worth starting now.
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Winter Pestos
Delicious pestos can be made with the dried herbs on your shelves and the greens in your freezer. And they are not only great on pasta -- try them in soups, sandwich spreads, with meats...
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Barter Is Better, part two: Seed Swaps Online
Now is the time to start planning this year's garden, but don't spend a small fortune on what you see in the catalogs. Get the same plants for the cost of a stamp by swapping online.
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Barter Is Better, part one: Round Robins
A Round Robin Exchange is a cross between a barter system and a surprise gift. Here are instructions for starting and managing your own Round Robin.
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Evergreen Gifts for Yule
Pine boughs are more than decorations. Honor the season with pine baths, teas, potpourris, massage oils and firestarters.
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Herbal Gifts, Part,Three: Spices and Make Ahead Delights
The scents of spices coming from the kitchen means Winter Holiday. Here are several recipes you can make ahead for gifts or to enjoy when guests arrive: mulling spices,cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie spice
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Herbal Gifts, Part Two: Dream Pillows and Bath Herbs
Gifts of time, renewal and dreams.
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Herbal Gifts, Part One
Enjoy the making as much as the giving of these fragrant presents that are sure to delight.
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Still In Season: Cooking With Autumn's Harvest
The garden may be winding down, but many crops are just coming into their own! Ways to use winter squash, greens, root vegetables, cauliflower and others that are at their best now.
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Something from Nothing: Using Scraps and Leftovers
A heel of bread, a rind of cheese, the water you cooked your potatoes in last night...These scraps and leftovers may sound more like trash than treasure, but they are ingredients in some of my favorite recipes.
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(Not Just) Fried Green Tomatoes
What to do when frost threatens and there are still lots of green tomatoes on your vines? Recipes for Green Tomato Chutney, and of course, Classic Fried Green Tomatoes
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Brooklyn In Provence
The smell of food rich in garden grown herbs, a pitcher of wine,time to daydream...Learning to savor life here at home as much as on vacation. Recipe for Herbes de Provence.
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A Home for Herbs
Fresh herbs dried at home are incomparably better than store bought dried herbs! Some practical how-to's and a tangent or two on the delights of home-dried herbs.
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From Now For Later: Garden and Cooking Projects for Summer's End
Now is the time to plant daylilies and garlic - two edibles to delight you next year. And they can both be grown in containers as easily as in the ground! This is also the time to stock up on Pesto and Sundried Tomatoes to last you through the season ahead.
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Two Herbs for Shady Gardens: Lemon Balm and Anise Hyssop
What to grow in a partially shaded areas that will delight with both taste and fragrance? Recipes and sources for two delightful herbs, Lemon Balm and Anise Hyssop.
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Saving the Weeds: A Lunch in the Community Gardens
During a community garden clean up, I host a "weed walk", serve wild foods, and encourage stewardship. Recipes for Wild Seed Crackers, Melilot Cheese Dip, Anytime Tea, and Japanese Knotweed Bread.
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A Rooftop Garden
Enjoy your own rooftop garden, even if you live in an apartment building! You can grow vegetables, herbs and flowers on your roof. Helpful suggestions and links, a personal experience with rooftop gardening, and a recipe for Rooftop Sun Tea.
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Saving Summer One Jar At A Time
Recipes for preserving your harvest even if all you've got is one or two jars at a time's worth of fruit or vegetables. No canner or fancy equipment required for these recipes! Berry jam, hot pepper preserve, freezer pesto and more.
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Day Lily: An Ornamental Edible
What could be better than a plant that is easy to grow, has beautiful flowers, and is also delicious to eat? Daylilies are a feast for both eyes and palate! Recipes for Steamed Daylily Tubers, Daylily Shoot Stir-Fry,Daylily Pickles,and Daylily Soup.
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Homestead On The Road: Farmers Markets
Exploring farmer's markets, supplementing what grows in your garden, what's in season when (best prices and flavor), recipes for enjoying and for preserving the bounty.
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Violets and Prayer Seeds
Planting seeds while praying for the continuance of a community garden; recipes for Spring Salad with Violets and Japanese Knotweed Sauce
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Signs of Spring!
Ways to get this year's garden and harvest started for little or no money. Forager's Calendar - what is ready to harvest now. Recipes for stocking up on field garlic, greek garlic and potato dip, and orpine relish.
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Street Corners, Dandelions, and Blackberry Hill
Thoughts on growing up in the city loving the wild, and on finding garden space in an urban environment. Recipes for Great-Grandma's Dandelion Greens, Wild Berry Jam, Dandy Beer, Brambleberry Cordial
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