Friday Farm Photo: Have a Freshly Picked Weekend.

Heirloom lettuce direct seeded in the kitchen garden the first part of April. Want to grow your own gourmet lettuce from seed? In…

Frugal Gardener: Cutting lettuce in March

Red Sails lettuce cut Mar. 2 It was beautiful—the head of Red Sails lettuce I cut Friday when Ellen said we needed lettuce for ou…

Cutting lettuce in December

Simpsons Curled (left) and Red Sails lettuce cut December 2 We’ve had many hard frosts during the last few weeks.  One morning th…

I've planted "Self-Enclosing Trout"

When I finished planting some “cool weather” veggies—chard, beets, carrots, and lettuce—my tee-shirt was soaked. The simple reaso…

Perch, or Other Fish, Tacos

Mom just came back from her winter in Florida, bearing a few leftover tortillas. We were very pleased to see them (and her too, n…

Beet & Grapefruit Salad

I got some grapefruit on sale a while back, and forgot to eat them promptly; I am so unused to having them around. It turns out t…

Spinach Salad with Bacon, Blue Cheese & Egg

Bacon! Eggs! Blue cheese! Wow, they make salad almost interesting. (Okay, I am just kidding; although of course, this is an inte…

Honey-Mustard Salad Dressing

I like this as a nice, quick, simple dressing; a little change from my more usual vinaigrette. For some reason I particularly lik…