Rainy Day with Sparrows & Monarchs completes Season 2 of Late Bloomer, my urban garden web show chronicling my growth as a food gardener. I started from scratch two years ago! With original music by Jon Pileggi, a quick tour of the late December garden during a rare rain shower reveals a large selection of cool season vegetables, […]
L.A. County Fair Fairview Farms has a one-acre gem of a food and teaching garden called Heritage Farm. Kaye dropped into the fair and got a tour of Heritage Farm and the Children’s Farm Market by Don DeLano, chief horticulturalist at the 500 acre Fairplex in Pomona, California. One of the main purposes of the […]
In Late Bloomer – Summer Garden Update – Part 3, Kaye harvests late season tomatoes, okra and zucchini and deals with blight, mildew and aphids on milkweed. She vows to conquer some of these issues in next summer’s garden! Southern Fried Okra recipe below. She’s mystified by the long, scarlet radishes. Get a glimpse of […]
Late Bloomer – National Heirloom Expo 2013 – Episode 2.16 covers just a taste of this year’s three-day event in Santa Rosa, California. There were hundreds of food and seed producers and exhibitors, and thousands of participants enjoyed a wide range of foods, heirloom seeds and products, as well as live music. Kaye visited for […]
Late Bloomer Lesson #1 for Garden Issues covers a problem that has arisen in July in the Late Bloomer Garden. If you have downloaded my free ebook, “10 Steps to a Great First Garden,” (sign-up box on right), you will have heard of my LBL’s, or Late Bloomer Lessons. The beautiful, wondrous and sometimes frustrating thing about […]
Late Bloomer – Arts & Ag – Part 3 – Episode 31 completes the trilogy Kaye shot over Memorial Day weekend in Hickman County, Tennessee. From locally grown foods and live music to handmade goods, the Arts & Ag Tour had it all! Kaye’s first stop is just outside Centerville, where she checks out antiques at April’s Attic, […]
Mennonites living a meaningful life in Middle Tennessee & the availability of fresh produce & dairy – I checked my thesaurus for the word meaningful and found these adjectives: significant, relevant, important, consequential, valid, worthwhile, sincere, deep, serious, in earnest, expressive, and eloquent. I found, on my recent trip to Tennessee, every one of these descriptions to be true. First, a […]
Zucchini carpaccio, “better than sex,” is a recipe I received from an old friend, Gary Hochberg, who responded to a call I posted for zucchini recipes on Late Bloomer Show Facebook page. Gary got the recipe from his friend, Kris Russo, at whose home he has eaten it many times. She had copied it from […]
Late Bloomer – Summer Garden Plantings on Mother’s Day is online! Kaye reviews what’s planted in her front yard organic garden for summer from veggies to perennials, to herbs and berries in pots, all to the original guitar compositions by Jon Pileggi! In addition to all the edibles named in the episode, there is an artichoke, […]
Vegetable risotto, a quick one-pan dinner, is a dish I reach for after a long work day. If you grow your own veggies, it makes it super easy to have the freshest dinner possible. And it only takes 20 minutes! Organic Vegetable Risotto Ingredients 2 TBL organic safflower or olive oil 1 small to medium […]
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