Posts under ‘Fruit’

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

The experiment in which I actually water the plants has now been in effect for approximately two weeks, give or take a watering or two. While I was gone to New York for a family reunion, Fatemeh picked up the slack in my stead, and had the pleasure of learning just how much water two [...]

The best thing about January? Opening up a brand new calendar. And, while I usually come up with a calendar that features my photography, I stumbled across a resource late last week that I have to share.
The Cottage Industrialist’s monthly calendar highlights seasonal produce and recipe ideas to put those seasonal fruits and vegetables to [...]

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

On Saturday night, I went to Contigo with a friend and learned, sadly, that they were sold out of that night’s padrón pepper menu item. On Sunday, I thought I’d remedied this when I located some red, luscious padróns at Happy Boy Farms’ stand at the Jack London Square Market. I brought them home, posted [...]

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

Some days, I take a step back from my life and, well, give it all a big bwa ha ha. It’s not like good things weren’t happening all along the way, but the good things that happen in this still-relatively-new incarnation of my life involve such fabulosity I can barely stand it.
One co-worker has brought [...]

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

I realize it’s high time to get back to garden blogging, but I’m going to go ahead and admit…my head and heart are still a little bit stuck in Black Rock City, where no plant of the garden variety can live, but where metal flowers bloom from the desert.
I have a story to tell about [...]

At my office, we spend an awful lot of time thinking about food systems and ways to get fresh fruits and vegetables in the hands of underserved communities. This is just one of the reasons I love my job—how many people get to go to work and do something that actually aligns with what they [...]