Make the Most of Your Herbs With This Sicilian Street Food
If you’re trying to have a White Lotus summer from the confines of your home—instead of the beaches of Sicily—you can still get a taste of the lifestyle. Summer means…
Grow Wasabi Like a Houseplant
The wasabi most of us get at sushi restaurants, or from the store, isn’t wasabi. That green, slightly bitter powder is often made out of horseradish. In higher end restaurants,…
You Can Grow (and Eat) This Sponge
Within each seed catalog, there are plants you flip past—the ones that you’ve never heard of. These plants tend to lean towards “crops” that you don’t think you have the…
Plant These Winter Cover Crops Now for Better Soil in the Spring
Photo: Richard Bednarski (Shutterstock) It’s difficult to overstate the benefits of a cover crop for your garden. In addition to helping replenish the nitrogen in your soil, cover crops also…
The Choice Between Indica and Sativa Is Increasingly Meaningless (and How to Pick Your Weed)
There’s a lot of talk in the consumer cannabis industry about the effects of different strains—indica versus sativa, calming versus energizing, this strain increases focus, that strain promotes creativity, and…
Stop Refrigerating Your Watermelon
Photo: Africa Studio (Shutterstock) Summer is on its way, but the weather here in the PNW is doing its hardest to convince me otherwise. Constant drizzle punctuated by torrential downpours,…
Why You Should Stop Growing Tomatoes and Give Peas a Chance
Photo: Olena Rudo (Shutterstock) Peas are resilient motherfuckers. Full disclosure, I did not grow up loving these green garden teardrops. I suspect my parents were not fans, so they were…
Jackfruit Is Way More Than a Meat Alternative
Photo: pada smith (Shutterstock) With a growing need for vegan and vegetarian recipes, creative cooks and food companies have come up with some pretty clever plant-based meat replacements. While this…
Plant These Veggies to Create a Winter Garden
Photo: Iuliia Karnaushenko (Shutterstock) Although winter typically isn’t thought of as a gardening season, it is possible—with the proper arrangements and precautions—to plant and grow a handful of vegetables during…
14 Flowers You Can Actually Eat (and How to Prepare Them)
Photo: June Marie Sobrito (Shutterstock) Flowers give us vibrant pops of color in our garden and beautiful centerpieces for special occasions—but it’s easy to forget that they can provide us…