Are you sick of eating pesto and caprese salad? Yeah, me neither. But are you looking for something else to do with all that fresh basil? Yeah, me too. Let’s make basil salt! Wait, that’s not going to turn me into a flesh-eating zombie is it? No, that’s bath salts. Don’t eat bath salts. Because…
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Composting nourishes the soil, fuels growth, and restores vitality simply through the breakdown and recycling of organic matter. In this weekly (com) post, I’ll break down what nourished, fueled, and restored our week! All the pumpkins! Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought this pumpkin plant would be so vigorous. I will need to set…
Kale Sausage Mushroom Pizza. Because Kale. And Math.
Kale . . . on pizza. Seriously? I know, I know, but it’s not *just* kale. It’s kale sausage mushroom pizza. But you put kale . . . on a pizza . . . do you have no shame? I really don’t, but that’s neither here nor there because kale on pizza is AWESOME. If…
Weekly (Com) Post
Composting nourishes the soil, fuels growth, and restores vitality simply through the breakdown and recycling of organic matter. In this weekly (com) post, I’ll break down what nourished, fueled, and restored our week! This past week has been all about the garlic! I pulled over 100 heads, laid them out to dry, brushed them off, trimmed their…
Big Crumb Rhubarb Coffee Cake
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Strawberry Margarita Popsicles + Zombies
Why? Because I want you to have your drink and eat it too . . . that’s why! Strawberry season is long gone, at least for the June-bearing kind, but I’m glad I still have a couple of these strawberry margarita popsicles left. Everbearing strawberries produce one crop in the spring/early summer and another in the fall,…
Weekly (Com) Post
Composting nourishes the soil, fuels growth, and restores vitality simply through the breakdown and recycling of organic matter. In this Weekly (Com) Post, I’ll break down what nourished, fueled, and restored our week! It’s so hard to choose which photos to share. Be prepared to be bombarded by garden photos. This year, all the cucumbers had to…
Kale Cashew Pesto + ‘Nero Di Toscana’ Cabbage
I know. But I warned you! Hey, at least it’s not grilled again. Nope, raw indeed. Raw Kale Cashew Pesto! And it is yummy, my friends. Yummy! I’m actually shocked how well the kale has held up in the extremely high temperatures we’ve been experiencing; although the kind I grow, Tuscan Kale (or ‘Nero Di…
Weekly (Com) Post
Composting nourishes the soil, fuels growth, and restores vitality simply through the breakdown and recycling of organic matter. In this Weekly (Com) Post, I’ll break down what nourished, fueled, and restored our week! The artichokes! Man are we eating artichokes. Eating them steamed, in pasta, on pizza. Also eating broccoli. I know, why in the world…
Grilled Kale Burgers (Cuckoo for Kale)
The recipe below is actually for grilled kale . . . which I happened to put on a burger . . . because, you guys, I’m seriously cuckoo for kale (especially grilled kale)! I know, welcome to 2012. But see, I could never really understand how kale went from humble member of the cabbage family…
Weekly (Com) Post
Composting nourishes the soil, fuels growth, and restores vitality simply through the breakdown and recycling of organic matter. In this Weekly (Com) Post, I’ll break down what nourished, fueled, and restored our week! I missed last week, so there’s a lot going on right now . . . .! Because of that horrible storm, I had to…
Best Meatball Recipe Ever
Even though the fresh produce has been making a regular appearance on our dinner menu (hello, kale!), I want to make sure we use up the canned goodies from last year. Not that this is any burden on the taste buds . . . I guess I was just overzealous about using them sparingly early…
Grilled Garlic Scapes, Oh and WTF Are Garlic Scapes?
If you’re already familiar with garlic scapes, I don’t need to convince you to make grilled garlic scapes. If you’re not familiar with them, let me introduce you! Reader, garlic scapes: Garlic scapes, Reader . Scapes, or garlic shoots, are the stalks that grow from the bulbs of hardneck garlic plants. I discussed the hardneck varieties…
Weekly (Com) Post
Composting nourishes the soil, fuels growth, and restores vitality simply through the breakdown and recycling of organic matter. In this Weekly (Com) Post, I’ll break down what nourished, fueled, and restored our week! I feel like this snap pea flower is like, “I see you!” When I’m not eating peas fresh off the vine, they are going…
Danny Downer
Because why must it always be Debbie? Anyway, sorry for being such a drag the other day! That storm was just . . . wild! And scary. I’m thrilled to report that things are starting to look up around here. We had some casualties (melon, radishes, lettuce, cucumbers, both summer and winter squash), but nothing that…
Garden After a Heavy Rain & Flooding
Mother Nature, why??? What was I just talking about a few days ago? Oh yeah, setbacks. We had devastating rain last night. We were up all night dealing with a leak in the (brand new) roof at the Pettinger Property. And you can imagine my horror as I made the length of a football field walk…
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We did it again . . . escaped up north. The forecast at home was in the 90s. Too hot for these two! Lac du Flambeau was slightly cooler. Perfect jet-ski weather. So that’s what we did . . . almost the entire time . . . which explains the few pictures I took. But…
Silence at the Salad Bowl
I was a competitive gymnast for the majority of my younger years. A few of my teammates and I entertained that we would write a collection of memoirs, Silence at the Chalk Tray, that would captivate audiences with the mental and physical demands that only a group of pre-teen girls in leotards could endure. You’re totally…
Weekly (Com) Post
Composting nourishes the soil, fuels growth, and restores vitality simply through the breakdown and recycling of organic matter. In this weekly (com)post, I’ll break down what nourished, fueled, and restored our week! Egg gradients! The chickens are loving the warmer weather . . . spending their days down by the creek. Yukon golds looking lovely. Lettuce…
I almost killed my best friend
It’s true. OK, it’s true if you insert the word “Toad” between “Best” and “Friend”, but this little guy has made the garden his home, and we couldn’t be happier to have him. Whether he’s lounging by the lettuce or perusing the pea patch, he’s the best toad friend a gal could ask for. Then…
Radish: Pink Beauties
Look at these beauties! Even if you don’t think radishes are beautiful, this statement still stands, because their name is Pink Beauty. And c’mon, they are beauties. Radishes are one of the easiest and fastest crops to grow. They tolerate cooler weather more than hot weather, but I tend to sow them throughout the year…
Weekly 8Com) Post
Composting nourishes the soil, fuels growth, and restores vitality simply through the breakdown and recycling of organic matter. In this Weekly (Com) Post, I’ll break down what nourished, fueled, and restored our week! We spent the majority of the week up north (up north = the lake = the cabin = the north woods = Minocqua…
Rhubarb + Big Crumb Rhubarb Coffee Cake
Originally cultivated for its medicinal qualities, rhubarb originated in Asia over 2,000 years ago. It wasn’t until the 18th century that it was cultivated for culinary purposes. It’s often thought of as a fruit, but it’s actually a vegetable (a close relative of garden sorrel). Rhubarb, a perennial, is extremely common in Northern United States and…
Weekly (Com) Post
Composting nourishes the soil, fuels growth, and restores vitality simply through the breakdown and recycling of organic matter. In this weekly (com) post, I’ll break down what nourished, fueled, and restored our week! The lilacs are intoxicating us with their smell like sirens’ songs to sailors. This almost-black tulip is my favorite color so far. Can’t…
