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There’s nothing more relaxing in summer and fall than venturing into the garden to harvest edible greens, herbs and flowers.
The word anthotype comes from the Greek anthos (“flower”) and typos (“imprint”). If you’re familiar with sun prints, using photosensitive paper to capture the silhouette of a plant on a sunny day, you ...
In “The Spinach King,” John Seabrook recounts how his grandfather turned a family farm into an industrial behemoth, and exposes the greed and malfeasance behind the prosperous facade.
Malabar spinach is a gift for farmers looking for a hardy, nutritious, and profitable green vegetable during the summer months. With minimal care, this fast-growing vine offers an endless supply of ...
There’s a special place in most gardeners ’ hearts for the flowering plants of late spring, which have a newborn grace and freshness all their own. Many of the loveliest are edge-of-woodland ...
Ingredients: 12 oz. pasta (linguine, penne or orecchiette) 1 bunch asparagus, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces 1 cup green peas (fresh or frozen) 3 cups baby spinach 2 tablespoons olive oil or ...
In 1923 an English gardener, Collingwood Ingram, with a passion for flowering cherries spotted this cherry growing in a garden in Sussex. The tree had originally come from Japan in 1900. He took ...
How to make the spinach and coconut oil hair mask: - Take a handful of spinach leaves and blend them into a smooth paste. - In a small pan, heat about 2 tablespoons of coconut oil until it is warm ...
Eating raw spinach to curb snacking? Here’s why experts say it may help. But the claim from some TikTokers that eating raw spinach curbs snacking by retraining taste buds is not backed by science.
Spinach is a vegetable that is rich in nutritional compounds, especially iron. Such a nutrient-rich vegetable carries vitamins A, C, and K, and the minerals magnesium and potassium within it. One ...