Some silent but beautiful signs of spring and life in the garden… Hello, old friends.
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Close to Home, Eco-Friendly & Sustainability, Herbs, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
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Tagged Annie Mahle, chives, Cooking, garden, herbs, horseradish, loveage, Recipes, tarragon
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Thank you. Thank you for the sun, the warm weather, the seeds that are sprouting and the really simple plastic covers that are making it all possible. Thank you for it all. It’s such a blessing to walk in the garden everyday and delight in new growth and green. The plastic is a new idea […]
Farmer Tom from Hope’s Edge delivered gorgeous fronds of leeks to me in early May last year – not nearly far enough into the growing season to have them as large as they were. But these leeks were special. They’d been heeled in and over-wintered under a deep layer of straw. When we had a […]
April 15, 2013 – 12:24 pm
Sometimes, no matter how mountainous the piles, no matter how voluminous the dust bunnies, no matter how numerous the emails, when a person opens the door to personally receive the mail from the mailman and feels not a blast of icy air but gentle warmth and gets a whiff of not brisk or crisp, but […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Eco-Friendly & Sustainability, Salad, Uncategorized, Vegetables
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Tagged Annie Mahle, cold frame, cold weather crops, cold weather gardening, Cooking, four season gardening, Gardening in Maine, Growing Greens, Maine, reicpes
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The column runs today. What’s for dinner? Parmesan-Crusted Chicken Breasts with Caper and Kalamata Olive Pan Sauce; Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes; and Toasted Pinenut and Garlic Spinach. I made this meal for my mom and dad when they were last out. Mom liked it because it felt light and Dad liked it because it was […]
Radishes, spinach and lettuce seeds are all happily sprouting on the window sill in the kitchen where I can water them, love on them, enjoy them and talk to them. The ground is still mostly covered with snow. The skies are often gray but oddly bright with frequent white fluffy flakes drifting down. And inside, […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Close to Home, Eco-Friendly & Sustainability, My Favorite Things, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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Tagged Annie Mahle, Cooking, greenhouse, Maine, micro-greens, Recipes
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February 27, 2013 – 10:19 am
I couldn’t take it one more day. The seed catalogs have begun to saunter in and I’ve resisted looking at one, but instead have filed them in the cabinet next to my desk. It’s February you see. If I look at seeds and green and growing, I will start to yearn – for seeds and […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Eco-Friendly & Sustainability, My Favorite Things, Uncategorized
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Tagged greenhouse, growing, indoor gardeing, lettuce, Maine Gardening, paper boxes, radishes, recycled seed trays, seed starting, Seedlings, Spinach
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November 20, 2012 – 1:16 pm
Dear Grandma, Well, the moment I’ve been dreaming about and waited on for so long has arrived and I’m about to go out to harvest my first crop of elderberries. When I do, I’ll don a white, long sleeved shirt that Jon tossed into the rag pile, only it won’t go down to my knees […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Canning and Preserving, Close to Home, Cooking, Eco-Friendly & Sustainability, Fruit, My Favorite Things, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
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Tagged Annie Mahle, Cooking, elderberries, grandma, jam, Recipes
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February 18, 2012 – 12:08 pm
It seems as if there’s always something one could fret about when it comes to bees – too hot, too cold, too moist, too dry, predators, mites, not enough flowers/pollen – a person could loose sleep! Luckily, that’s not my style, I tend toward the “live and let go” side of the fence, trusting that […]
January 23, 2012 – 9:35 am
Certainly when the girls and Jon gifted me with a greenhouse for Mother’s Day last year, this is not what I was hoping for when I walked to the back of the house one recent blustery day! The winds blow so hard on our property that securing this house to the ground somehow becomes a […]
