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Though I realize it’s probably a bit disingenuous, at this point, to act like I know absolutely nothing about gardening.
But five things? That means I’ve learned more than one thing per year. Or something like that.
Regardless, today I’d like to invite you to step over to Heather Mak’s Five Takeaways blog, where I am featured [...]

I’m a couple of days behind in making the announcement, but thanks to everyone who entered the 4th Anniversary drawing for a copy of my friend Tara’s book The Butcher & The Vegetarian: One Woman’s Romp Through A World of Men, Meat and Moral Crisis.
The winner is Janet of Pretty Green Girl, who [...]

Remember those wine half-barrels I picked up in February? I happen to know that my source has them available again at the low, low price of $20 per half-barrel and $40 per full barrel. Interested? Send me an email to genie <at> theinadvertentgardener <dot> com and I’ll pass along your information to the barrel dealer.

On a blustery Thanksgiving morning, six months after I moved to Oakland, I took my parents to celebrate Mass.

They were visiting me for the first time in this new city I called home, and I wanted to show them the newly-dedicated Cathedral of Christ the Light, which I’d been attending since [...]

Giant. Freaking. Rabbits.
(Thanks to Deb Roby for pointing this one out to me.)

Earlier this week, Michelle Obama launched “Let’s Move,” the new national childhood obesity prevention campaign. Though I rarely talk about work here, it was an exciting day for my organization, which has been working on this issue as part of a larger initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
As with all Washington, DC announcements, [...]

Like everyone else, I am nauseous over the tragedy that has unfolded in Haiti, by the death and destruction and sheer horror of the images broadcasting from Port au Prince and other parts of the country.
Here is what sinks my stomach to a dark pit: I cannot help but think about the 30,000-foot view that [...]

I am a huge fan of a good party. I mean, really. BRING IT.
But when that party involves tomato destruction, well, I simply can’t condone it. And this is why I must condemn the (otherwise) good people of Buñol, in Spain, where they just celebrated the 64th annual “Tomatina,” an opportunity for people to fill [...]

National Farmer’s Market Week is August 2-8, a week where even the markets in the harshest zones of the U.S. climate should be bursting with amazing produce. Tomato season’s in full swing, people. Take. Advantage. (And if you don’t like tomatoes, buy some anyway and just mail ‘em to me.)
Over at The Huffington Post, Stacy [...]

Some of you have already noticed a new tab that appeared recently at the top of the blog. See it? Up there? The one that says Inadvertently-approved products? Yeah, that’s right.
A few months ago, a start-up called The OpenSky Project contacted me to ask whether I’d be interested in working with them to build a [...]