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Design Sleuth: A Starburst Vertical Garden
Designed by San Francisco-based O + A, the Silicon Valley offices of Evernote feature an exuberant explosion of tillandsias against a white wall. Some people might think the vertical garden looks like...
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6 Ways to Green Your Office in the New Year
Itching for a little office sprucing in the new year? If applying for a LEED-certified renovation isn't in the cards, consider these six easy ways to freshen your office and make sure that your work...
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The Week in Review: Starting Fresh
We might have creaked our way back into the office this week, but we've got some serious greenery up our sleeves that we can't wait to share with you in 2014. Here, a collection of inspiration we...
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Shopper's Diary: Tiny Worlds Under Glass at Twig Terrariums
I first noticed the Twig Terrarium store on my way to Runner and Stone, the Gowanus restaurant and bakery. The two are neighbors, comprising a tiny pocket of cool on unlovely Third Avenue, which, even...
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DIY: Bookshelf Compost Farm
When we run across a really amazing gardening idea—like desktop composting or a bookshelf garden—we get really excited. We find out everything we can about the product, publish photos to give you ideas...
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Kitchen Visit: Eating from Mollie Katzen's Garden in Berkeley
There may be people who have done more to revolutionize cooking in America than Mollie Katzen, but I don't know any. I was thinking about this the other day, as I driving across the bridge to visit her...
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Garden-to-Table Recipe: Mollie Katzen's Smoky Brussels Sprouts and Onion
 The rap on vegetarian recipes in the 1970s was that many were so loaded with cheese and butter that they might as well have been desserts. Not so these days. "Nowadays the ingredients we can get are...
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DIY: Reviving the Cold Frame
Cold frames can seem like damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't season extenders. By the time it's warm enough to plant, your garden beckons for your attention in every other direction. You blink, and...
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10 Easy Pieces: Vegetable Peelers
The best vegetable peelers are those that go unnoticed; they just do their job smoothly and quietly. It's only when we have to fight with dull blades, peel clogs, and cumbersome handles that peelers...
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Ask the Expert: Winter Garden Tips from Stone Barns Center
Before diving headlong into the world of blogging, I was lucky enough to enjoy a stint working in the fresh air as public programs manager at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico...
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7 Winter Vegetables That Taste Better Than You Think
Wintertime at the farmers' market can be a daunting affair. Vegetables in the winter develop thicker skins—root vegetables, stocky greens, everything covered in a layer of dirt. Just as it takes time...
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Recipe: Irresistible Vegetable Soup in 30 Minutes or Less
Soup for supper? It's my first first choice most days. But a hurried weeknight is not the time to try out a new soup recipe. Or any recipe, for that matter. You won't need to if you can remember three...
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Gardenista Giveaway: The Sharpest Saws from Garrett Wade
Anon, pruning season is upon us (as Shakespeare might have put it had he been an arborist rather than a playwright). With trees and shrubs dormant this month and next, winter is the best time to prune,...
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Bouquet of the Week: Winter Sunshine, With Poppies and Artichokes
For a winter arrangement inspired by artichokes, I decided to add poppies as a main floral ingredient. Artichokes are known as an important winter vegetable in Mediterranean cultures, and poppies, a...
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Kitchen 101: How to Cook an Artichoke
I love artichokes but haven't a clue how to turn the seemingly inviolable bud into a food; I conducted an unscientific poll among friends and realized I was not alone. So I scoured my cookbooks,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Editors' Favorite Chef's Knives
When it comes down to it, the choice of the best kitchen knife is as personal as the palm of the hand that holds it. Yes, a good chef's knife needs to meet some minimum requirements: a high-quality...
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Edible Winter from the Gardenista Photo Gallery
We're deep in the heart of winter, but there are still delightful things to eat straight from the garden. Here, we've rounded up some winter food favorites from the Gardenista Photo Gallery, a...
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An Edible Winter Tomato: Does It Exist?
The city that I live in promises to have everything, and yet, each winter there is a certain dearth of palatable tomatoes. Perhaps I am not the first to notice that the tomatoes in the...
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Garden Visit: New Roots Edible Garden
To the untrained eye, the people working the soil in the New Roots community garden on the campus of Laney College in Oakland, CA may look quite ordinary. But if you inquire further, you will learn...
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The Best $75 Jar of Honey I'd Buy Again
It was my husband's idea to buy the $75 jar of honey. My philosophy on such extravagances is always to say yes (it distracts him from how much I spend on shoes). My husband saw the honey while we were...
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