Sassafras is an amazing native North American decidious tree that is easy to grow, has many uses, and can be cultivated for commercial use relatively easy. Growth habits and identification: Sassafras...
Food connects us to the world, by food we are connected to each other and to nature. Food is also seduction, it creates friendships or business deals, it is pre-eminently a social event. How we eat...
by Clare Ellis Craig and Tara Smith bought a farm in Petalumashortly after they read Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and were blown away. “That’s a dangerous book,” says Craig. Once...
It is mid March in Missouri and we are still a little under a month away from our average last frost date. However all the trees are blooming and leafing, flowers are up everywhere, and I am...
Typically, peach trees begin to bear fruit as soon as it they are old enough to blossom on their own, usually around 3 or 4 years of age. Despite this, there are times when normal peach production...
Onions are a staple in most peoples home and market gardens. They are relatively easy to grow but prefer a loose, loamy soil, with a pH of somewhere between 6 and 7. If you are planting onions...
By Marcia Zoladz Gertrude Stein, the American writer who lived most of her life in Paris, created something that she called a text landscape. Instead of depicting a person in watercolors or paints...
In Acqualagna, the saying goes that “it’s truffles year round”. The prized black winter truffle and the black summer truffle, the ‘little white’ spring truffle and especially, the white fall truffle...
Peach trees are deciduous and have a lifespan of a little under fifty years. Originating in China, the peach tree, like most other temperate and tropical plants, is an angiosperm. As such, their...
By Márcia Zoladz This winter I went to Paris, and all I wanted was to walk around the city, as I was staying in a new neighborhood -the 10tharrondissement – close to the Canal of Saint Martin. The...