Honest Food

My Aunt Martha always planted flowers in between rows in her garden in West Virginia. These French marigolds are a great choice as they onl...

These tree seedlings were started last year from cuttings. Basically you make a clean cut from a small branch and place it in water. Then st...

Even bush-type cucumbers can use some trellising. Here I used the tomato cages -- cattle fence with pig-ring closures -- and just placed the...

Some honking green tomatoes. These are Mortgage Lifters, a pink heirloom tomato that originated in West Virginia.

There are three plots this year, combining veg, herbs and flowers.  Totally organic (of course), lush and healthy. Gardening and blogging a...

My friend Mark Bittman wrote about the sad lives of most conventional livestock in this country. I bet if most people knew how the majority ...

I come from pound cake people. My great grandmother, a big-boned sturdy farm wife, was the queen of pound cake. She made hers by hand, beat...