All the Seeds You Should Be Saving Right Now for Next Year
Many gardeners are aspirational when it comes to saving seeds even if there are some good reasons to skip it. If you’re gardening year round, you don’t always have time…
These Are the Best National Coffee Day Deals of 2023
We’ll never say no to free coffee, and there’s plenty to go around this week: National Coffee Day falls on Friday, Sept. 29, and International Coffee Day comes just two…
Buy These Garden Essentials on Sale Before Fall
Sometime last week, the season turned. The heat broke with a dramatic rainstorm, and although it returned to 80 degree days after, it was clear summer was at its end.…
People Are Caramelizing Their Onions All Wrong
I, like so many millennials, am a big fan of instant gratification, and am always looking to hack, streamline, or otherwise speed up the process of cooking delicious food. There…
TikTok Myth of the Week: There’s Plastic on Your Lettuce
The industrial-scale systems that grow and process our food can be strange and scary sometimes. But as we saw with myths like “whitened” milk and McDonald’s worm burgers, our imaginations…
It’s Time to Start Your Fall Garden
We’re still weeks away from my first summer tomato, and it feels like I just got all my tender summer starts and seeds in, but I know better: I can’t…
You Should Grow More Interesting Peppers
When most people think of growing peppers, they become devilish fiends for heat, goosing up ghost peppers and evil hybrids intended to max out the Scoville scale. I kindly propose…
Influencers Are Bad at Washing Produce
Across all of social media, I keep encountering a certain brand of annoying influencer behavior. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok—all are packed with videos that feature someone (usually a white woman) subjecting…
You Can Plant Your Own Ramps
Once a year, foragers and chefs unite in the herbaceous, springtime frenzy that is fiddlehead and ramp season. Fiddleheads, the curled, young tips of certain ferns, have always been a…
Dehydrate Some Caramelized Onions and Crumble Them Over Everything
I’d like to think I’m the kind of person who will take the time to wash, dry, and chop the wide variety of produce it takes to make a salad,…