I have a fun idea for you, if you’re willing to play along. Here is how it works. The next time you’re going to a backyard barbecue, planning a picnic, or having friends over for dinner on the deck, make it known that you will be bringing/serving chicken salad. This will trigger everyone’s (more…)

Any fool can grow Swiss chard, I like to say. My gardening strategy is a process of elimination. I’ll give something one or two tries, and after that it’s off the list; I’ll let someone else, with greener thumbs than me, grow it. My goal is a garden of foolproof foods, and chief among them, come rain or shine, is Swiss chard. (Other foolproof greens are collards, kale, and mustard greens; but not spinach or watercress.)

Long before I started growing greens, (more…)