Your dinner is still in the woods.
If there is any ubiquitous forageable plant, it is certainly the dandelion. Dandelions are easily recognized, available just about everywhere, and have a number of uses. Today I am focusing on the greens, but the flowers and roots are edible as well. Pretty much everyone already knows what a dandelion looks like, but we might […]
Planting this garden has been giving me a huge amount of anxiety. I’ve managed my little indoor garden for several years and it has been easy enough. I start it in the winter, overplant everything, enjoy some greens and herbs and then, once summer starts in earnest, I get called off on a fire and […]
I still haven’t identified what the woody shrubs in my garden plot were, but there was one visitor that I knew and was excited for: wild onions. There are a variety of species of wild onions and ramps, but they are all members of the Allium genus, which includes the more familiar onions, garlic, and […]
Last fall I was lucky enough to get myself a plot in one of the Boulder Community Gardens. I’d heard since I moved here that the waitlist was enormous, but I was only on it for a few weeks before I got the call. It is a 400 square foot plot, large enough (according to […]