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The Memorial Day garden party menu, grown in your living room
The Memorial Day garden party menu, grown in your living room
Be the host who serves a salad that is still alive when it hits the plate. Memorial Day weekend is... Read more...
How to make pesto: the formula, plus 7 variations beyond the classic
How to make pesto: the formula, plus 7 variations beyond the classic
Classic Genovese basil pesto is one of the great food inventions: green and garlic and salt and fat, blended fast... Read more...
How to make fresh tomato sauce from cherry tomatoes
How to make fresh tomato sauce from cherry tomatoes
Once you make tomato sauce from your own cherry tomatoes, the canned version becomes hard to go back to. Vine-ripened... Read more...
Summer grilling herbs: 7 to grow for the best cookouts
Summer grilling herbs: 7 to grow for the best cookouts
Anyone who has tasted grilled chicken brushed with fresh rosemary versus the dried jar version knows the difference is not... Read more...
Homegrown summer salads: a fresher, healthier way to eat through the heat
Homegrown summer salads: a fresher, healthier way to eat through the heat
Summer is supposedly the salad season. In practice, it is the season your bagged greens turn to slime three days... Read more...
Edible flowers: a magical way to get kids to taste new things
Edible flowers: a magical way to get kids to taste new things
Picture the scene. A kid who pushes salad away with the dramatic disgust only a five-year-old can produce. The same... Read more...
Why kids eat the vegetables they grow themselves
Why kids eat the vegetables they grow themselves
Every parent has lived some version of this. At dinner, your kid pushes the carrot to the edge of the... Read more...
Cooking with your toddlers: 8 things they can actually help with
Cooking with your toddlers: 8 things they can actually help with
Cooking with a toddler in the kitchen is supposed to be a sweet bonding moment. Sometimes it is. Most of... Read more...
What is the carbon footprint of a grocery store salad?
What is the carbon footprint of a grocery store salad?
Most articles online that try to answer this question are either too vague (climate-lifestyle blogs that quote a single number... Read more...
Is hydroponic growing better for the environment than soil farming?
Is hydroponic growing better for the environment than soil farming?
This question comes up frequently, and most articles online pick a side and argue for it. Hydroponic companies say hydroponic.... Read more...
Earth Day 2026: Our Power, Our Planet - small food choices that add up
Earth Day 2026: Our Power, Our Planet - small food choices that add up
Earth Day 2026 arrives on April 22 with a theme that reads less like a slogan and more like an... Read more...
How much water does it take to grow lettuce? Field vs. hydroponic
How much water does it take to grow lettuce? Field vs. hydroponic
The claim appears on almost every hydroponic company’s homepage: our systems use 90 to 95 percent less water than traditional... Read more...