Broholo Cenk

The are lots of reasons we grow our own garden but the primary reason is to have enough tomatoes for canning. There are high levels of BPA in metal-canned tomatoes - higher than any other canned food…

Some pasta primaveras are made with heavy cream sauces - which are their own kind of tasty but definitely heavy on the calories. This dish is a much lighter pasta primavera and is chock full of veggi…

And so it begins. The season of tomatoes. The primary reason I moved to a community garden plot two seasons ago was to have the capacity to grow enough of my own tomatoes to can a year's worth of…

In the Pacific Northwest, blackberries are weeds that are known to take over huge portions of any untended land. Luckily, these are very tasty weeds and if you don't mind a few pokes, can yield c…

In the Pacific Northwest, blackberries grow wild in any patch of tall grass or forest edge that goes untended for too long. A few blocks from my home, right at the end of the street is just such a pa…

It seems like the whole country is going zucchini crazy! Whether you have a lot of little ones or just a few monsters (no joke - a friend gave me 10.5 pound zucchini last week!) most of us need a lit…

We grow two kinds of cucumbers in my garden every year - small bumpy cucumbers for pickles and english-style cucumbers for salads and juicing. And lucky me: I can have as many pickles as I want on th…