It’s STRAWBERRY TIME! I don’t know about you, but we’ve been eating strawberries pretty much every day for the past two weeks. Our appetite for strawberries largely exceeds what our singly strawberry bed can supply but luckily our neighbours have…
It’s RHUBARB TIME!!! In case my use of all caps and exclamation marks has not clued you in: I AM EXCITED! Another clue as to my love for rhubarb is the number of rhubarb recipes on this website: no less…
In what feels like another lifetime, but in reality was just two weeks ago, we visited Drenthe, one of the northern provinces in the Netherlands. I was going to be giving three talks on gardening there within four days and…
Can it always be September please? It’s probably my favourite month for homegrown produce – we’re still harvesting most of the summer vegetables while fall fruit is abundant as well. This year, our tomato harvest in particular has been magnificent…
Are you a goal-setter? For me, it kind of goes with the territory – since I’m self-employed, I have to set goals constantly or else I’d get very little done. I even set goals for my garden and last year…
This year was the second year we hosted a Thanksgiving dinner. Since my husband is Dutch and I’m Czech, Thanksgiving is part of neither mine nor his cultural heritage. But there’s a lot in our lives to be thankful for,…