Beyond the double-glazed sash windows of our apartment, it is frigid February, but the air indoors smells like a citrus orchard in springtime. After my previous Meyer lemon…
Read more Lessons Learned: Growing, Killing, and Reviving a Meyer Lemon Tree – GardenistaCold nights need warm drinks; the kind you can linger over. Olivia Rae James has been warming up her nights with a boozy, citrusy take on mulled cider.…
Read more Recipe: Mulled Apple Cider, With a Secret Ingredient – GardenistaStrike one: a house in need of a major renovation. Strike two: a garden in need of love. Strike three: a remodel that left the surrounding landscape decimated.…
Read more A Stunning Garden in North Haven, NY, by DeMauro + DeMauroWe’ve entered the season when our gardens are starting to gradually slow down in preparation for a restful winter. We gardeners, however, can’t help but keep on pruning,…
Read more Bare-Root Fruit Trees: Why and How to Plant ThemWhen the evenings begin to nip and the light becomes clearer than it has been for months, you know it’s pawpaw time. The fruit of Asimina triloba begins…
Read more Pawpaw Streusel Cake: A Recipe for the Native American FruitThis week, we’re revisiting some of our all-time favorite stories about gardening in New York City. Cultivating plants in the Big Apple comes with challenges—yards tend to be…
Read more Tiny Gardens: 66 Square Feet for Alpine Strawberries in NYC – GardenistaI have a Meyer lemon tree and a lime tree on my property. Where I live, in Marin County, CA, it feels like everyone has a citrus tree…
Read more Kumquat Tree: How to Grow the Petite Citrus TreeWomen with breast cancer should include the “liberal culinary use of cruciferous vegetables.” Both the Women’s Intervention Nutrition Study and the Women’s Health Initiative study showed that women…
Read more Eating to Downregulate a Gene for Metastatic Cancer | NutritionFacts.orgAbove: Blood orange peel adds layers of seasonal flavor. My own variations have used sweet pineapples from the corner store, different sources of sugar (granulated, piloncillo, and palm…
Read more Tepache: An Easy Recipe for the Popular Pineapple-Based Mexican DrinkWhile spring and summer offer a bounty of wild food treasures, there is a cornucopia of good things to forage in fall. Fruits like native aronia and pawpaw,…
Read more Fall Foraging: 6 Easiest Fruits and Mushrooms to Forage in the AutumnIf you want to start a horticultural fight, opine loudly at your next plant party about the best viburnums to grow. These flowering shrubs provoke strong opinions among…
Read more Best Viburnum Shrubs: Our List of 10 Flowering BushesMakes 12 muffin-sized pies; 12 3¾-inch hand pies; or 1 large 9-inch pie (baked in a springform pan) Summer is picnic-friendly, and having a serviceberry pie all to…
Read more Serviceberry pie celebrates the start of summer berry season5. Olives are not tasty off the tree. Above: Photograph by Sarah Lonsdale, from DIY: Home Cured Olives. Ever tasted a fresh olive? If you have, then I’m so…
Read more Olive Trees: Everything You Need to Know About Growing ThemAt just eight years old, Atlanta native Kendall Rae Johnson is the youngest certified farmer in the nation. Photos by Kerri Phox/The Atlanta Voice Q&A: The youngest certified…
Read more ‘I just know my stuff’: 8-year -old Kendall Rae Johnson talks urban farming, community and fresh foodUnloved and perhaps perceived as unlovely, quinces are a curiosity for many cooks who did not grow up with the fragrant fruit. Like apples, they ripen in fall,…
Read more Quinces: Recipes for Baked Quinces and a Quince SambalWatch out, yuzu: Calamansi is coming for you. In the ever-fickle focus of the trend-obsessed digital culinary world, fragrant yuzu remains, for now, the darling of internet searches…
Read more Calamansi: Everything You Need to Know About Calamondin Citrus FruitTejocote. You know it well, or you have never heard of it. There seems to be no middle “I-think-I-know-what-that-is” ground for these plump, yellow crabapple lookalikes with burnished…
Read more Tejocote: All About the fruit of a Mexican Species of HawthornCranberry Hand Pies Makes 14 x 3-inch round pies (or 16 x 4-inch, half-moon pies) Butter and half-and-half make the pastry meltingly tender—embrace them. Chilling is essential for…
Read more Cranberry Hand Pies: A Recipe for Making the Most of Fresh CranberriesA surprise hit on the botanical walks I lead, where a picnic rewards the exercise, is the hot toddy that I pour in late fall and winter. When…
Read more Virgin Hot Toddy: A Non-Alcoholic Holiday Cocktail
