The dog days of summer are here, folks, and as much as I dread the hot and sticky season for its extreme hot and stickiness, I love what it means for family time. We just returned from a nearly five-week trek around the Midwest, two kids and a puppy in tow, and my heart is…
Because there’s always more rhubarb to love
One of the great things I’ve learned from gardening (OK, one of the great things I’ve learned from other people’s gardening) is that a good plant will yield gobs more blooms (either food or floral) than you ever expected. You can pick and pick and pick, and just when you think there couldn’t possibly be…
Tales from a 40-year-old plant: Rhubarb raspberry jam
Every summer, my family road trips about 11 hours north from our home in Missouri to visit my grandma in a teeny town in Wisconsin, on the farm where my dad grew up. It’s one of those trips that we all look forward to every year, not just because it’s a chance to get away…