I am in the midst of harvest time and every countertop in my kitchen is covered with tomatoes, onions, garlic, peppers, broccoli, eggplant, tomatillos, zucchini, corn, basil, cucumbers, beans and more.  I am canning and drying and braiding like crazy to keep up with the abundance of my garden.  Last week was Lammas, the halfway

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I am back from a trip to the Southwestern US.  My husband and I drove to Santa Fe New Mexico and visited our friends there in their new hand-built, sustainable home powered by solar panels.  We camped in the mountains for a week and taught workshops on plant identification for food and medicine at a

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Today I am transplanting my tomatoes out into the garden beds I prepared on Tuesday.  Tomatoes are packed full of nutrients.  The red color of the fruits tells me what kind of phytonutrients they contain.  I’ll summarize the nutrients associated with each color of the plant rainbow below:  Red Fruits like Pomegranate and Vegetables such

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Today I have been getting my exercise by preparing garden beds for planting corn, beans, tomatoes, peppers, squash, eggplant and more.  It has been a perfect spring afternoon- sunny, warm and breezy with white puffy clouds decorating the blue sky.  I am dreaming of harvesting summer vegetables of all the colors of the rainbow while

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Tomorrow, Friday the 15th of May, is “Ride to Work Day.” It is the culmination of “Ride to Work Week,” designed to promote bicycling for exercise and to reduce traffic congestion.  It also serves to educate drivers and riders about bicycle safety and sharing the road. I plan to ride my bicycle to work and

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