First Garden Food of the Season
French sorrel is among the first garden crops to appear and the last being harvested before the garden goes to sleep for the winter. This perennial herb has a lemony tang to brighten up any salad or sandwich. It is a cooking herb, and gardeners share French sorrel...
What else is growing at the garden?
Pansies in November
The forecast was for a sunny day in the 60s with no wind. Of course, we called a workday. ...
Balcony view of the garden
Garden Cleanup
We knew this day was coming. This weekend's forecast is for hard frost. Amid the raindrops this afternoon, a few wet snowflakes fell. By day's end, humans and the weather had transformed the garden again. ...
Thank you, Front Porch Forum
Please join me in supporting Front Porch Forum by contributing here: http://frontporchforum.com/supporting-members In April 2014, our south yard was a lawn. I posted to Front Porch Forum looking for people who might want to use some of the lawn to grow food. The posts...
Oct. workdays: Compost & so much more
On a gorgeous fall weekend, we transformed the garden for the season. Ella and Hannah feed corn stalks into the chipper so they can be added to the compost pile. Norma arrives with more stalks. We've pulled out the row cover for the season. Peppers and zucchini...
What we’re doing & eating
It's officially fall. The garden is still feeding us a delicious variety of foods. Some aren't even ready yet. But the days are noticeably shorter and cooler. This comfortable gardening weather signifies the wind-down of gardening season. ...
Central Vermont organization gleaning to feed those in need
In The Garden at 485 Elm's first year, gleaners from Community Harvest of Central Vermont (CHCV) carefully picked, weighed, documented, packaged and delivered 200 pounds of food from this garden. It was a modest but significant contribution to CHCV's program that...
Finishing tomatoes indoors
Sophi was feeding seaweed to the garden rows when she mentioned two sauces she'd made from this year's paste tomatoes, a San Marzano variety. She said the first sauce was sweet and delicious. Whereas the second sauce was quite tart. The difference, said Sophi, was the...
Water, water, everywhere. Please.
This is the dry season. We don't have sagebrush rolling past cacti, but our plants are parched. Cindy, our garden coordinator, runs a watering-intensive garden. Sometimes there are protests: The plants will drown; it's not necessary; mulch will reduce the watering...
Beautiful
Gardens are beautiful. Food is beautiful. Irina Markova, who gardens here, takes exquisite photos here. Here are some to relish.
