Savor Culture

Lucky is the cook who lives next to a shiitake mushroom farm!
Yesterday, Charles and I walked through the woods to say hello to our neighbors… who happen to raise shiitake mushrooms.  They started the commercial operation two years ago and sell their shiitakes to the nearby Whole Foods Market and a local produce distributor. A noteworthy aspect [...]

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There goes the neighborhood: Ronde de Nice zucchini dominates The Nest.
When we returned from our vacation (well, it was a vacation for me, though Charles had to work a bit), I was relieved to see that the garden had received plenty of rain in our absence.  Though a gang of weeds launched a sneak attack [...]

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Our site for mining “black gold”
Let’s take a closer look at the features of the compost pen that Charles designed and built.  It’s a simple structure, but its features improve the flow of collecting, turning, and harvesting compost.  Charles also minimized the cost of building the pen by using salvaged and free materials.
1. Drain tile [...]

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It’s been several weeks (months?) since the last update on our summer garden.  I’m happy to report that we have sturdy seedlings in the rows marked zucchini, butterpea, radish, and every kind of lettuce.  They look so beautiful that we wanted to create a suitable environment for them.  Wonderful Husband Charles suggested a raised bed [...]

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My planting medium is composed of vermiculite, perlite, and peat moss.

Our seeds from Baker Creek arrived in today’s mail.  Unfortunately, they were out of bok choy, but I’ll try to find those seeds at the local garden center.
The wonderful husband and I started a batch of herb seeds under a fluorescent light a couple [...]

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