I CAN ALMOST taste it now: the flavors of the first spring crops, whether homegrown, or from your CSA share, or even ethically foraged…with the promise of a whole growing season of the freshest, tastiest produce to come. It’s the perfect time to think about adding some new recipes to our repertory that can really […]

LET THE seed shopping season begin. The 2024 offerings are being loaded into seed-catalog websites, and the earliest print catalogs are already arriving in our mailboxes, as if to help soften the separation anxiety we may feel if we’ve already put our gardens to bed for the winter. One that I always look forward to […]

WHEN YOU SHOP for food—whether produce or meat or eggs—and see a label that says “organic,” what do you think that means? At its most fundamental level, I guess I always thought it meant vegetables grown on the fields of an organic farm—like, in the soil, or animals raised in its pastures. But increasingly, as […]

Edible Backyard My Three Fave Nurseries Buy your fruit trees and companion plants from one of our small, owner operated, NZ nurseries. Tap into their experience, their range of unusual and heritage varieties, and score yourself tasty, trusty, reliable trees and plants. These passionate nursery women and men are doing important work keeping older varieties […]

Edible Backyard July in the vegie patch, Healthy soil project #3 + My next book! About three years ago Jason Ross and I decided to write a book together – we planned it out on post it notes! Since then we’ve been beavering away like mad, and this week it’s gone off for design and […]

Edible Backyard The Healthy Soil Project #3: Plant power Plants are incredibly fertile – grass, dahlias, nettles, parsley, plantain, borage, buttercup, comfrey, dock, shrubs, trees – you get the picture, all plants! Plants are natures soil builders, in part from the bits and pieces of organic matter they drop onto the soil, but mostly from […]

This sourdough discard coffee cake is soft and moist with a double cinnamon crumb. I’ve... The post Sourdough Discard Coffee Cake appeared first on Home Grown Happiness.

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