Posts under ‘Iowa’

Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

So last year, I decided to spend a February Saturday at a gardening fair. That’s how I roll, you know, as the Inadvertent Gardener. Rocking out the winter Saturdays learning about staking flowers and planning herb garden layouts. Except it was far too wintry a Saturday that particular day, and the fair was cancelled, leaving [...]

“Are you going to write about the caucuses on your blog?” asked one of my friends a couple of weeks before January 3. “I really can’t think of a way to tie it to gardening or cooking,” I said. “I really do try to keep things, you know, topical.” “I just thought you might have [...]

One of the things that surprised me when I moved to Iowa — and oh, there were plenty of things that surprised me — was how many apple orchards there are around here. My parents live in Adams County, Pennsylvania, home to apple orchards that dot the landscape as you drive down country roads, and [...]

The fifth issue of Edible Iowa River Valley is out and about, just in time for some good Fall eating. This issue features a cover story on goats, which are becoming more and more popular as a food product in Iowa. This issue includes an article I wrote about locally-grown chestnuts, a delicacy I had [...]

I keep meaning to get up to Decorah—a field trip to Seed Savers’ Heritage Farm has been on my list of things to do since I started gardening, and here has gone another season, and I never made it up there. Hmm. I sense the start of a 2008 Resolutions list. So it was with [...]

Before I moved to Iowa, I was already a devotee of farmers and locally-grown food and all that good stuff. I was the only of my friends to join a CSA, I was a customer of Washington’s Green Grocer, and in the summer, the farmers at the market whispered behind their hands about how the [...]

I stopped by the Edible Iowa River Valley site tonight to check out the recipe of the week, only to discover that, in fact, there’s a picture of me and my armload of basil. Oh, smiling mug. I’d been meaning to mention Edible’s weekly recipes feature on the site, and mention that they feature seasonal, [...]

Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Five hours in, I was starting to panic. I had not yet found the Potato Lollipop, and my friends Amy and Betsy were clearly flagging in their enthusiasm for the 2007 Iowa State Fair. Time was running short. Would I find it before we had to board the shuttle bus back to my car? I [...]