recipes to help keep up with the csa share or garden’s bounty, with ali stafford
HOW DO YOU GRILL vegetables to perfection? And what do I do with my garlic scapes, or the greens on [read more…]
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margaret roach, head gardener
HOW DO YOU GRILL vegetables to perfection? And what do I do with my garlic scapes, or the greens on [read more…]
LAST TIME WE CHECKED IN with expert gardener and baker Sarah Owens, at the start of 2016, it was just [read more…]
PERHAPS YOU’RE SCANNING the seed catalogs, imagining tasting that first sweet ‘Sugar Snap’ peapod, or (finally!) a ripe garden tomato—both [read more…]
THE RHUBARB will be up soon, and the strawberries won’t be too far behind, arriving around the time I’ll get [read more…]
REACHING INTO THE NET BAG of onions in my barn this morning, I got a little wakeup call—from a few [read more…]
‘TIS THE SEASON for starting to concoct some of the holiday trimmings—especially delicious homemade gifts that can also figure into [read more…]
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA-based but Southeast-bred Kevin West strikes me at once as a very modern and also a very old-fashioned guy–a [read more…]
WHAT DO TWO OF THE SIMPLEST, most familiar ingredients like garlic and lemons add up to? Plenty, in the hands [read more…]
THE MEDIA’S WHIPPING UP panicky headlines this week, faster than you can turn cream to pie topping. One outlet after [read more…]
LACTO-FERMENTATION: It’s the rage, and not just among old hippie types who have—like their ancestors and their ancestors’ ancestors throughout [read more…]
Welcome! I’m Margaret Roach, a leading garden writer for 25 years—at ‘Martha Stewart Living,’ ‘Newsday,’ and in three books. I host a public-radio podcast; I also lecture, plus hold tours at my 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 5B garden, and always say no to chemicals and yes to great plants.