The Dirt
Gratitude for a Holiday Feast
How to Be Grateful for Delicious Food By Sandy Swegel One cannot but be overwhelmed by gratitude at holiday tables made with so much scrumptious food. In this age of “spiritual, not religious,” it can be hard to say “Grace” in a way that includes everyone. Yet gratitude leaps from us as we stand before […]
Eat and Grow
Why and How to Regrow Kitchen Scraps By: Holly Keehn Don’t throw out those kitchen scraps this Thanksgiving. Instead, eat and grow them! Composting is great, but if you don’t have a bin this is an excellent way to get full use of your veggies, just as nature intended! Re-grow these vegetables and save on […]
Gardening as Winter Looms
How to Keep Up Gardening in the Winter by Sandy Swegel Nothing like the first deeply freezing temperatures followed by a warm day to get people in Zone 5 areas asking if the gardening season is really over if they can still tackle their garden to do lists even though winter looms with Thanksgiving is […]