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Editor’s Note: The following article is excerpted from “My City Highrise Garden,” a new book by famed feminist author Susan Brownmiller about the garden she maintains atop her Manhattan apartment building. One summer day the editor of a women’s magazine visited my garden with her assistant. They were preparing a feature on how the busy…
Becky O’Brien’s delicious homemade kombucha helped her connect to the everyday miracles around us. It was faith that made me do it. Despite all my doubts and disbelief, I figured that if other people can make a little seed turn into food, then so can I! And lo and behold, I did it. Well, not…
Over a spring lunch complete with fine wine, the author tells her illustrious hostess plucked from the garden. It was when we operated a back country farm on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia that I’d read an article about Miriam Rothschild’s interest in Israeli wildflowers. She grew them in her greenhouses and gardens and…
For several years, a key part of our Shabbat has been the weekly journey to the farmer’s market to pick up our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share. Beginning in early July and lasting until approximately mid-September (if we are lucky), freshly picked corn on the cob is the centerpiece of our share. We plan Saturday…
My synagogue garden will be five years old this spring. That is how long it took to become a truly congregational enterprise, and not just a labor of love for me. Step 1: Get Leadership On Board Initially, I wanted to build the garden in the front of the shul. That was nixed by the…
I’m counting the Omer and reflecting on my garden this year: What has been accomplished, and what remains unfinished? (the metaphors abound). The winter here in southern California is enviable to gardeners everywhere. We can plant in December what others can only begin to plant — if they’re lucky — now. Lettuces, chards, carrots and…
It was the first day where the temperature hadn’t risen above freezing, and I was seriously feeling January. Until I picked up my mail…and found a Johnny’s seed catalog. Pages and pages of beautiful vegetables leapt out at me, warming my heart if not my blistered hands. The night before, I had volunteered at my…
I’ve been a gardener and foodie all my life. Family legend has it that as a toddler I used to go from one cherry tomato plant to the next in our backyard garden, picking and sampling each one. The green ones I’d spit out, but I didn’t give up; I savored each sweet, red tomato…
