Good Food is Everybody's Business
All about growing and making good food, including gardening, foraging, gleaning, processing and cooking.
Are you a seed saver and/or food grower? A new, one-person seed company has just been announced and it offers some fascinating items. The company is called Fertile Valley Seeds and it is Carol Deppe’s way of offering her innovative seed breeding work to gardeners, especially those in the Northwest. Her crop breeding techniques are in the public domain, rather than owned by a profit-making corporation
Found throughout the U.S., Canada, and much of Europe and Asia, nettles have long been prized as an early source of greens, and used medicinally for various ailments. Stinging nettles are high in protein, iron, vitamins A, C, and K, and other nutrients. Their taste is similar to that of spinach. Nettles are anti-inflammatory, and have often been used to soothe allergic reactions. (Included is a recipe for nettle soup.)
Even for mushroom-hunting novices, morels are easy to identify. Hard to find, but easy to be sure you’re not getting something poisonous! They’re really well camouflaged and are very hard to see in the leaf litter around the base of of a tree. Learn more about morel hunting in Minnesota.
If you garden in the northern US or southern Canada, there is still time to grow your own garden “starts” from seed. The folks at …
Even in the middle – or late winter – gardeners dream about their gardens as they pore over the dozens of plant and seed catalogs that have arrived in the mail. How else do we get through these last weeks of cold, slush, rain, and grey days?
Kale – the “super vegetable!” Here is a great recipe for kale chips; don’t laugh until you’ve tried them!
Seattle urban farmers can how keep 8 chickens, 4 bee hives, and 3 miniature (dwarf/pygmy) goats or rabbits on standard residential lots.
Arthur Lee Jacobson took a damaged rear bicycle wheel, cleaned it of grime, and rigged it into a planter for edible succulents. It recalls, in its shallow soil depth, and succulent plants, a miniature version of a rooftop garden. Here’s how he did it.
