Six kale plants.A six-pack of kale starts will run you about $2.50. Kick in a little more for a bag of compost and you’re on your way.Those six plants can be packed into a tiny garden bed in the spring. Nurtured. Watered. Even sung to, if that is how you roll.They will start to feed…
what to do when the jelly doesn't set
I thought that we’d go through the jelly making process here, in case it is a new one to you. Except this time- with this recipe, I didn’t end up making jelly at all. I had to confront the moment and figure out what to do when my jelly didn’t set. The day comes for…
peach cinnamon butter
I’ve been following this pretty beautiful train of thought on twitter, something started by the photographer Penny De Los Santos. I can’t say I follow too much on twitter, but I check in and I read along here and there. Penny has just moved to New York, and in support of her journey and new…
how to freeze corn
I’m relieved, because of course I love them, and I’m glad to have them home and all that. But really, honestly, I just don’t know how I would have shucked all this corn by myself. Rosie has recently inherited Maia’s little ipod shuffle, and Maia loaded it up for her with Lady Gaga and Abba…
gooseberry elderflower jam
My great-grandmother on my father’s side was a woman called Buckner Hollingsworth. I have heard that she was a woman of many talents, but the one by which she is remembered by the few people who find her books in a dusty and treasured corner of a used book store or who happen to be…
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