Sentences with phrase «backyard gardens»

Doors from the great room lead to a screened porch scattered with black Kingsley Bate woven furniture, and the backyard gardens and pool.

Similar to the Airbnb concept of renting out spare rooms to travelers, Camp in My Garden (www.campinmygarden.com) offers visitors the chance to pitch a tent ($ 7.50 - $ 15 per person) per night in orchards and backyard gardens from Devon to Cornwall.

As many South - Edmonton residents can attest to, hail can do some damage to your backyard gardens.

With an emphasis on fresh seasonal produce that can be grown in many parts of the state and backyard gardens all year round, Waters helped define California cuisine.

Providing education at the food bank, so that recipients will know how to prepare the food they receive, and how to start their own backyard gardens

In The New York Times Magazine's 2008 Earth Day issue, Michael Pollan argued that climate change was at bottom a crisis of lifestyle and personal character — «the sum of countless little everyday choices» — and suggested that individual actions, such as planting backyard gardens, might ultimately be more important than government action to repair the environment.

In addition to these admirable goals, the site aims to also provide an effective platform for growers to establish profitable micro-farms and backyard gardens, and to reduce the potential for food waste, which can be an issue in both home gardens and with neighborhood fruit trees or those on public property.

Legumes are one of the healthiest plant foods for us humans, and runner beans grow in many of our backyard gardens, so they seem like a good candidate for our pets» meals.

Health Benefits of Asparagus It's a welcoming sign of spring when asparagus bunches start appearing by the droves in markets, and an even better sign when they crop up in backyard gardens everywhere, much to the delight of everyone with a green thumb.

Local and seasonal produce that is handled and processed less (perhaps from Farmer's Markets, farm stands, CSA farm subscriptions, and backyard gardens) is more likely to provide the necessary bacteria strain diversity.

Many herbs grow quickly in backyard gardens and dry easily through methods like air drying or dehydration.

Green string beans can be found all over at farm stands, farmers» markets, in CSA boxes, and growing in backyard gardens.

But when it comes to daily waste, especially in New York City with an absence of compost bins and backyard gardens, a lot of it inevitably comes from my kitchen.

In a study of New Jersey pine - oak forest, Winfree was surprised to find that bee populations are more abundant and diverse near sites of human disturbance — where backyard gardens or farm fields add to the range of blossoms available.

Zucchini is definitely at the top of our minds not only because it's full of flavour, vitamin A, but because summer brings an abundance of summer squashes — like zucchini — to your local farmer's market, grocery stores and even backyard gardens.

My grandparents grew most of their produce that they ate in their backyard gardens.

I love that the whole of this roasted summer squash dish came from backyard gardens within a one mile radius of little ole suburban moi.

The bird pepper is a small annuum or frutescens pod type that grows wild throughout the islands, and Scotch Bonnets are cultivated in backyard gardens, but neither are grown commercially.

It is still grown by smallholder farmers, in backyard gardens and mixed crop systems.

I want a backyard garden and a tire swing, tinies with dirty hands at the end of the day.

Whether you're lugging them home from the farmer's market, or plucking them out of your backyard garden, October means it's time for butternut everything.

I have been making my own hot sauces now from the peppers that I grow in my backyard garden for about 7 years now.

Those fresh herbs plus a few perennial herbs (thyme, oregano, savory, lemon balm) from my backyard garden rounded out what I needed to make this meal.

This past spring, Austin (my fiancé) and I put our heads together and decided that we'd start our own little backyard garden.

I guess I always wanted to live in a house that had a small backyard garden where I can grow some flowers and fresh herbs.

Simply put, I just don't enjoy the excessively warm temperatures or the scorching sun, and I spend two solid months feeling my insides wilt not unlike the droopy basil plants in our backyard garden.

A little look into our backyard garden.

One thing I will not be growing in my backyard garden is asparagus, but I wish I could!

At the moment, I've got one last summer zucchini from my mom's backyard garden in my fridge and I'm thinking I'll make another loaf of this whole wheat chocolate chip zucchini bread to freeze for when we get home from vacation.

On another note, I feel fortunate to have two little pineapples growing outside in our backyard garden right now: — RRB - Don't know when to pick them, though!

I picked those strawberries — whose nubbly, irregular appearance far belies their superior, sweet flavor — from our backyard garden boxes, weeks ago now, and baked this simple strawberry buttermilk cake as a special treat before my husband left for another deployment.

She had countless strawberry plants lining the side of her small white house winding their way into her small backyard garden.

I've been loving the kale coming out of my first ever backyard garden.

When I was growing up in Brooklyn --- my father always grew hot chilies in our backyard garden.

Our backyard garden is finally bustling with tons of herbs, gigantic lacinato kale, the sweetest green beans, lacy elderflowers, and even some baby strawberries!

Inspired by a recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi, this is possibly my favorite way to enjoy roasted sweet potatoes: a turn in the oven, along with some red onions, then layered on massaged kale (all three from the backyard garden), drizzled with an addictive tahini dressing and topped with herbs, za'atar and crunchy pepitas.

A few kale plants in your backyard garden are a ready source of winter greens.

The permaculture movement, which began in the late 1970s, has also been influential in the growth of community and backyard gardening, as well as small - scale bio-diverse agriculture.

In addition to sourcing fresh herbs from the Mansion's backyard garden, Backman will work closely with the nearby Ocean House's Food Forager, exercising her creative ability to turn ingredients collected in the morning into decadent meals by evening.

If you have an Aunt Chloé that lives on a farm in Provence, this is what you bring to share with the roast chicken and greens from her backyard garden.

Each year I till the dirt in our small backyard garden, purchase seeds and pray for the best outcome!

Today, in Jaime's garden, we get to peek at one family's creative suburban backyard garden as well as their community school garden, which Jaime helped create.

Having a backyard garden can be fun!

And then this summer, our city backyard garden, which is where people can come and learn how to garden, will be in full swing.

The high schools get their hot dog buns from Texas French Bread, a new partnership since Tanner took the helm, and Johnson's Backyard Garden has fields full of carrots that will be served in the district this semester thanks to an innovative partnership that has the schools buying directly from the farm instead of a distributor.

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Wondering what to do with the bounty of zucchini from your backyard garden?

Franchesca Cox is a creative soul, often lost in words, paint and dirt from her backyard garden.

Whether you're harvesting squash from your backyard garden or bagging it at your local supermarket, you'll want your vegetables to be in season and at their peak.

My son has a buddy who asks for sprouts when we go to the farmers» market, a galpal and her brother regularly forage greens from their backyard garden, my boy prefers his veg raw (in sticks or salads) or pureed (in soups or sauces).