Gardening, Harvesting and Foraging

If you’ve been following my gardening efforts at all, you have read how I turned my backyard flowerbed into a raised garden this year.  Here is the update I wrote about two months later.  Above is a picture of how it looked about three weeks ago.  It seemed to explode almost overnight!  We have had a wonderful late summer/early fall here in the Pacific Northwest.  Little to no rain for 80+ days!  That means we have had an extended harvest, for which I am very grateful because I got started so late in the spring.  Here, let me share what we … Continue reading

Save That Cut Parsley

Let’s say you don’t have access to fresh organic parsley, so you purchase a big beautiful bunch at your local farmer’s market or grocery store only to find that before you can use it all up it has turned into green mush at the bottom of your vegetable bin.  There must be a way you can have a consistent supply of fresh parsley!  Well, read on, friend.   I will show you how to keep it fresh for longer, and it will make a pretty little addition to your kitchen window. On the same day you bring your bunch of … Continue reading