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 I didn't grow up with hot food. The spiciest it ever got was a single, intact chile (which would have been spelled chillie, in South Af...

A sweet flood of tiny-tiny Kishu mandarins arrived at our door some weeks ago, a gift from a citrus grower. I had been making all things cit...

We lurch from apocalypse to apocalypse. Choking wildfire smoke, and now, unprecedented rainfall. Brooklyn escaped Sunday night's floodin...

Chickweed, a luscious, cool-weather green, has a unique flavor. Read all about it and get my super-easy chickweed recipe on Gardenista . ___...

What is that green shoot? It has four friends, too. They are all - well, cough, all five - ramps , just up in a pot on our terrace after a c...

Tulips and books. Read all about both, how to choose (the tulips), how to make them lean (or stand to attention), and...how to eat them. In ...

  I love radishes. They have a remarkable affinity for eggs - high on my list of Loved Things. Also, toast. (Perhaps everything has an affin...

A wood ear's point-of-view, during a recent forage class in Prospect Park. The wood ears studied the humans, the humans studied the wood...

Crabapple season. Birds prefer them after a real cold snap, when they are less tannic. And I like them fat and tart, to be candied.   Get my...

Last week I cut down the mini hedges of summer savory in my windowboxes. I felt a bit bad about it because bees really love their tiny flowe...

August in Brooklyn feels like January in Keetmanshoop, right now. Oven - hot. But New York also slings a bucket of soapy mugginess at you to...

A potful of Silk Road lilies has opened. The darker it gets, the stronger their scent grows. And salads are luscious with farmers market pro...

Our bay tree moved indoors! It is the tree in my migrating collection that has received the least attention and yet it has also been the lea...

Have you made nasturtium seed capers?  They are delicious, with a mild, horse-radish zing. I think they rival the better-known, bottled vers...

Yep. And it's not sweet, either. It is creamily smooth and tart with a little tingle. (An MFK Fisher story does come to mind, though - a...

Umbrella magnolia are in bloom. Historic Green-Wood Cemetery is an accredited arboretum and home to some of the oldest and most beautiful tr...

  These beautiful, meaty artichokes were grown by Ocean Mist Farms .  In my story about artichokes for Gardenista I wonder whether it is mo...

It's that time, again: Meyer lemon season (indoors, and on the West Coast) coinciding with juniper pollen season. The juniper is foraged...

I wrote about  oyster mushrooms for Martha Stewart Living . Did you know...they are carnivorous! Yup. And they are being made into vegan bac...

I gathered as many of my citrus-growing tips as possible for an article about growing indoor citrus, featured in the March edition of  Bette...