Category: Kitchen
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Green Giveaway: Kitchen Composting Made Easy
As an organic gardener, I know that kitchen composting is a really good thing to do, both for the environment and for my garden. But it can be messy, smelly and just too complicated. So I admit, until recently most of my veggie cuttings, coffee grounds, bits of paper and eggshells went in the disposal…
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P. Allen Smith’s Garden2Blog, Part III
After visiting Marlsgate Plantation and P. Allen Smith’s original garden home, Gaines, we were off on yet another Garden2Blog adventure to a gardener’s mecca, Moss Mountain Farm. One of the best parts about Garden2Blog was having the opportunity to casually tour P. Allen Smith’s garden home retreat. I must have taken 400 photos inside the…
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Cooking With Kids – Triple Berry Freezer Jam
I have learned from many years of experience that children love to garden and cook right along with you, as long as you keep it short, simple and fun. Kids love to pick fruits and veggies that they like, they like to learn about measuring, they love to use fun tools, and they even like…
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Sausage Failure and Success!
This is a busy time of year as we all prepare for the holidays. Here at Cowlick, we have been scrubbing and polishing, shining and sweeping, scraping and painting. In the garden, we’ve been dividing and planting, composting and mulching, planning and plotting. And we’ve been practicing some new cooking techniques for the holidays, when all of…
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Autumn Visit to Just Fruits and Exotics
This weekend was a big one for farmers and gardeners in north Florida and South Georgia. The New Leaf Market Farm Tour attracts an ever-growing crowd to its 32 participating farms, backyard gardens and dairies. We often spend the entire weekend touring farms right near our home in Monticello. But this year, we were a little…
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Roasted Garlic Butter
If I were to choose an absolute favorite crop that we grow, I would have to say it’s our gourmet garlic. We take it seriously. Garlic plays a supporting role in almost everything that we cook…veggies, steaks, stirfries, mashed potatoes. It’s the first thing I reach for when I want to make something that everyone…
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Summer in a Jar
It was a hot, lazy Sunday, and I spent the afternoon trying to put summer in a jar. That is all I did today. We were up late last night, enjoying friends and dining in the garden. There was even a cool breeze, a welcome respite from what has already been an unusually hot summer.…