Rosemary: An alternative Christmas tree
As the holidays approach, I always think of the festive way my father decorated the front door of our suburban house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Being...
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Finding Dia de los Muertos
When I attended high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the 1960s, my dad decided to take our family of four on a vacation in Mexico....
Scaring up some fun this Halloween
Are you ready for a scary Halloween outing? Known as “the scariest haunted house experience in Southern California,” the Haunted Corn Maze is open on...
Get an herbal start on the holidays
At this time of year, quite frankly, my 20-foot, raised-bed vegetable garden is becoming a little tiresome. The butternut squash has refused to die off,...
What to do with all this winter squash?
With fall quickly approaching, we are all harvesting vegetables with warming menus in mind. In our 20-foot raised bed garden at the Pine Street Senior...
Start planning your next small garden now
To begin, decide where the small garden could possibly be located. You might come to your porch or patio filled with ideas, but in reality,...
Can it! Easy pickling recipes
In 1858, in Vineland, New Jersey, a tinsmith named John Landis Mason invented and patented the Mason jar. This screw threaded glass jar revolutionized food...
It’s a tomato time of year
The word tomato evokes summer. We would all like to just take a salt shaker out to the garden, find one of those Big Boy...
Falling in love with flowers
Have you ever fallen in love with a flower? I fell in love with sunflowers this summer, and then they broke my heart. The garden...
The taste of summer fruit
For many of us who spent the summer in rural areas, we remember with great fondness the joy of picking fresh, wild berries in the...
Creating a trellis garden
I have a huge vegetable garden I work on at the Pine Street Community Garden. Our Senior Garden Club meets weekly to plant and tend...
Search your garden for dinner
Do you Doordash? So many people pick up the phone at dinnertime to order from this food delivery service. One of my son’s roommates orders...
Create a colorful garden
When I think of color in the garden, I always turn to my books about Claude Monet. Not only was he the foremost Impressionist painter...
Eat your vegetables!
Do you like beets? I would say that at least half of our readers would respond with a hearty no! So, I set out to...
Learning from our mothers’ kitchens
When I think of Mother’s Day, I think about preparing the family meal. My mother, in her suburban Milwaukee kitchen, started to prepare for dinner...