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The Giving Garden, Part 2: Planning, Managing, and Sustaining the Giving...
As I mentioned in my last blog on the history of the Giving Garden, many volunteers and partners work to plan, prepare, manage and sustain the Giving Garden of over 15 years. Work begins each spring...
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Fun Vegetable Food Facts for Thanksgiving
As the Holiday season is upon us our gardens take backstage to family, friends and food. As garden junkies looking at where our food comes from, it is always in the back of our minds. As a fun...
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What’s in Your Pumpkin Pie?
Photo credit: Foy Spicer Which vegetable is in this can of pumpkin puree? Is it the one on the left or right? Turns out Libby’s uses a variety called ‘Dickinson’ in their pumpkin puree. ‘Dickinson’...
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Sweet Potatoes: Naturally Sweet, Naturally Nutritious
Sweet Potato Harvest (Photo credit Purdue University Extension) When I moved to North Carolina about 5 years ago from Connecticut, I was looking forward to growing some of the regional favorites...
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Master Gardeners and Food Day 2013!
Food Day Oct. 24, 2013 Food Day is a year-round nationwide celebration of and movement toward more healthy, affordable, and sustainable food culminating in a day of action on October 24 every year....
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AmpleHarvest.org: Sharing Your Garden Bounty with Neighbors in Need
What has 180,000 hands and is changing the world? The Extension Master Gardeners of the USA! That’s how we at AmpleHarvest.org think of you—thousands of hands working in the soil, sharing valuable...
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Turn Your Zucchini or Summer Squash Into “Pasta”
Julienne slicer Standard vegetable peeler Large holed grater or microplane Wide vegetable peeler Serve uncooked as a salad…. … lightly sauteed and seasoned… …or topped with your favorite...
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