Basil, the Great Leveler: Gardening, Deconstructed

If I can do it, you can too! As a novice assigned the task of growing starts for this year’s garden I dove in head first, and ran right into my total lack of experience and, yes, lack of knowledge. After all, what is so complicated about putting a few seeds in some soil and waiting for Mother Nature to take care of the rest? Here it is July and I’m apologizing to Mother Nature (and my husband) for my hubris, my arrogance, and my ignorance.

Front Yard Pie – As Local as You Can Get

At GoodFood World, we’re all about whole or minimally processed food and avoiding all those additives and preservatives that Big Food uses to give “edible food-like substances” their creative aromas, peculiar colors, more-intense-than-real flavors, and months’ long shelf life.

It’s April! Think gardening AND think gardening tools!

Whether you are a farmer, an orchardist, or a home gardener, good tools make the job! And you can’t do a quality job without quality tools. How do you find good hand tools that are sturdy, repairable, and properly sized to your hand or height?

Does your strawberry taste as good as it looks?

Strawberries are my absolute favorite fruit, and I look forward to strawberry season every year. Depending on where you live that season can start as early as mid-June or as late as mid-July. This year we bought our last quart of berries at the farmers market the second week of August. They were amazing!

Time to Think Gardens; Time to Think Garden Tools!

It’s going on February (thank goodness!) and the seed catalogs are starting to arrive. So while you’re daydreaming about warm weather and your summer garden, it’s time to think about the tools you will be using. Good tools make for easier work and you owe it to yourself to have the best. Our recommendation is that you check out Lowell’s offerings.