Stitched Panoramas: Baja California, Mexico
These photos were taken on our recent trip to Baja California, Mexico. I’ve posted them in the order I took them over the course of a week. In my next post I will go into further detail about the...
View ArticleRancho la Puerta
When I booked our trip to Rancho la Puerta, a spa/retreat in Baja California, Mexico a few months back, it was under the assumption that it would be the most vacation-like vacation of my life. I...
View ArticleHerbaria (August 31, 2012)
The hot peppers are in their prime, the late season tomatoes are ripening faster than I can use them, the sun is setting earlier in the evening (no more gardening until 10pm) and even the tomatillos...
View ArticleDudleya: The Dudley Moore Plant (Not Really)
I recently had an assortment of old film developed (recently being tonight) and one of those rolls contained photos that I took last January at Rancho la Puerta in Tecate, Mexico. Looking at the film,...
View ArticleMy Year in Gardening: 2012
Happy New Year! I wrote my first year-end wrap-up post in 2010 and continued with it in 2011. As I sit here at my desk the end of 2012 [note that I began compiling this post just before the New Year],...
View ArticleA Kitchen on a Rock
In the wee hours, just as the sun had begun to illuminate the sky, we made our way along dusty, winding paths towards our destination, an organic farm 2 miles across the valley in the shadow of Mount...
View ArticleGrow Write Guild #30 Our Gardens, Ourselves
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Our gardens reflect who we are, what we need, and what we like. I am a tinkerer. I like to experiment, mess about, and explore. I am curious. I like insects. I...
View ArticleWhat’cha Growin? Podcast Episode #7 Alys Fowler +Giveaway
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. “…increasingly I am finding it very hard to justify that sort of tidy up, very designed garden over the fact that it’s an ecosystem and I care much more about...
View ArticleServiceberry Jam
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Serviceberry season is here! Davin and I were on a staycation last week, and if you follow my social media accounts, you will have noticed that I spent a lot...
View ArticlePickled Garlic Scapes
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Garlic scape (aka garlic flower) season is pretty near finished in my neck of the woods and I was sad to see it go. Yesterday I preserved the last of the...
View ArticlePickled Radish Seed Pods 2 Ways + Giveaway
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Last week my friend Margaret of AWAYtoGarden.com and I were chatting on Skype and she asked me what is in my pickling spice mix? The question threw me for bit...
View ArticlePickling Flavours to Grow (or Buy)
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. As promised I’ve made up a list of herbs and spices that can be used to flavour pickles. Many of these can be grown at home! Pickling Flavours From the Garden...
View ArticleGrow Write Guild #31: Summer Fruit
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Summer fruits and berries have been in abundance these past weeks and the experience of foraging, picking, eating, preparing, and preserving them has conjured...
View ArticleWhat’cha Growin? Podcast Episode #8 Abbey Huggan
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. In this episode we go across the street — quite literally — to chat with my neighbour and friend Abbey Huggan. Abbey is a schoolteacher by day and a wild...
View ArticleRECIPE: Cherry Clafoutis
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. When the sweet, black cherries come into season my brain immediately turns to clafoutis, a rustic French dessert of fresh, seasonal fruit suspended in a...
View ArticleRecipe: Smashed Cucumber Salad
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. I’ve been making my own adapted version of the smashed cucumber salad recipe from Silvena Rowe’s, Purple Citrus and Sweet Perfume: Cuisine of the Eastern...
View ArticleWhat’cha Growin? Podcast Episode #9 Renee Garner
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. My guest this week is Renee Garner, an artist who draws inspiration from her garden in North Carolina. She is also a mom to two young children and in this...
View ArticleFresh Peas in August
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. It must be noted for the sake of remembrance that on August 11, 2014, I pulled out what remained of this year’s pea plants. I could have let them go longer....
View ArticleIn My Garden of Solitude
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Like many of you I’ve been watching the reports coming out of Ferguson, Missouri anxiously. I was up hours past my bedtime last night rhythmically refreshing...
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