Rachael Brugger is a volunteer and board member with Faith Feeds, a gleaning organization that seeks to alleviate hunger in the Bluegrass through the provision of fresh fruits and vegetables. She moved to Kentucky in 2009 to work as senior associate web editor for Hobby Farms and Hobby Farm Home magazines, and on weekends, she moonlights [...]
The most common questions I get are usually related to the use of fresh herbs. Lots of people have never cooked with them, or even seen them, outside of an occasionally limp piece of parsley on the plate next to their meal at a steak house. Thankfully, people are becoming more and more aware of [...]
A little behind posting what’s going on in the garden this week! Last weekend was so sunny and warm. I got lots of seeds in the ground, including: peas radishes beets carrots spinach lettuce Some of them are already up! I have poppies in bloom all over the garden. I planted the bulbs in the [...]
The weather has been unseasonably warm here in Central Kentucky this week. While this may or may not be contributed to global warming and the eventual demise of our environment, I have to say it feels really really nice. It has me itching to get out in the garden and start spring planting. Oh, except [...]
Oh, parsley… A humble, hard-working, oft-overlooked member of the herb family. When you think of herbs, parsley may be one of the first that comes to mind. Perhaps because it is widely available, it seems like it is often thought of as common or unimportant. This shouldn’t be the case! Parsley is incredibly versatile, and, [...]
