From Seed to Celebration: Jane Green’s Zucchini Chronicles

Zucchini in the garden

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 7, 2013 On this day, dear fellow cultivators of the earth, we find ourselves privy to a most delightful tale of horticultural triumph. J ane Green, a gardener of seemingly boundless enthusiasm,…

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Garden to Table by the Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen

Garden to Table by the Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Garden to Table by the Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen This book came out in 2018. It is part of the best-selling American Girl cooking series, and the subtitle is Fresh Recipes to Cook & Share. This book features recipes from six categories of garden harvests: veggies, herbs, berries, fruits,…

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Tomato Tales: Summer’s Red Jewels in Poetry and Culinary Delight

Tomatoes in the summer garden.

Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Tomatoes in the summer garden. July 9, 2020 Today’s poems and musings pay tribute to one of summer’s most treasured gifts:…

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Alice Waters: The Garden Revolutionary Who Forever Changed American Dining

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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 27, 1971 My darling garden enthusiasts, today in 1971, the incomparable Alice Waters—a culinary revolutionary disguised as a humble restaurateur—opened her now-legendary Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California. What a delicious milestone…

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