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Extreme Frugality: The Way of the Carters
Fighting the good fight and holding back the slugs.
07.16.09
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- extreme frugality,
- tomatoes,
- gardening,
- farming,
- w. hodding carter
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Gardening 101: Before and After the Blight
Widespread in the Northeast, late blight is a tomato and potato disease you need to know about, and fast.
07.13.09
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- gardening 101,
- farm-to-table,
- produce,
- tomatoes,
- nanette maxim
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Gardening 101: Tomato Support Group
It ain’t heavy; it’s my tomato plant. And it needs help now, in the form of a cage, a stake, or even a bamboo teepee.
07.06.09
- Keywords
- gardening 101,
- farm-to-table,
- produce,
- tomatoes,
- nanette maxim
food + cooking
Extreme Frugality: If It Only Had A Brain
When the flocks descend, family time revolves around making a scarecrow. Fast.
07.02.09
- Keywords
- extreme frugality,
- gardening,
- culinary culture,
- w. hodding carter
food + cooking
Gardening 101: Peas Treaty
There is never a sweeter meal than the first from the early summer garden.
06.29.09
- Keywords
- gardening 101,
- farm-to-table,
- produce,
- nanette maxim
food + cooking
Gardening 101: Giving Bugs the Brush-Off
The best defense against the creepy, crawly, jumping team of vegetable destroyers plants begins with your own two hands.
06.22.09
- Keywords
- gardening 101,
- farm-to-table,
- produce,
- nanette maxim
food + cooking
Extreme Frugality: With a Cluck-Cluck Here and a Cluck-Cluck There
Still fighting the good fight, but the chickens (plus a kitten and an orphaned blue jay) have come home to roost.
06.18.09
- Keywords
- extreme frugality,
- culinary culture,
- w. hodding carter
food + cooking
Gardening 101: Gardener Sings the Blues
If you think gardening is all about sunshine and beetle-free flowers, think again.
06.15.09
- Keywords
- gardening 101,
- farm-to-table,
- produce,
- nanette maxim
food + cooking
Extreme Frugality: No More Mr. Nice Guy
When the fruit of a man’s labors is in peril, stand back.
06.11.09
- Keywords
- extreme frugality,
- culinary culture,
- gardening,
- w. hodding carter
food + cooking
Gardening 101: Tomato Maniacs
Slice ’em, dice ’em, sauce ’em, and gazpacho-ize ’em—tomatoes are summer. And there’s a variety for every crazed gardener.
06.08.09
- Keywords
- gardening 101,
- farm-to-table,
- produce,
- tomatoes,
- nanette maxim