by Daisy | Apr 3, 2012 | Fencepost, Reviews
I don’t know the exact moment when I began to question, well, not everything, but a lot about what we buy and put in or on our bodies. It may have its earliest beginnings way back, before some of you readers can remember, to the Tylenol debacle. For those of you...
by Daisy | Mar 7, 2012 | Fencepost, Reviews
These days, when finding a recipe, any recipe, is as easy as typing a few words into a search engine, the cookbook has to bring it. It has to be more than just a collection of nice recipes. It has to give more, be more, and say something compelling. Cooking Close to...
by Daisy | Mar 1, 2012 | Fencepost, Reviews
My friend Stacy is a genius. Stacy wrote this great book about family garden togetherness activities. And (after reading it for myself, of course) I gave it to my mother for Nana Days. Nana Days are the greatest invention since electricity. It’s where I take my...
by Daisy | Jan 31, 2012 | Fencepost, Reviews
Wow. This book is exciting. To a vegetable gardening nerd, like me, it is heady stuff. Listen to this: “. . . it’s a misconception that all vegetable crops need summerlike temperatures for best growth.” Now, I knew that, of course. I’m not...
by Daisy | Jan 3, 2012 | Fencepost, Reviews
This is the book I’ve been waiting for and didn’t even know it. And the timing is perfect. I’ve been so excited about permaculture, and perennial vegetables are a big reason why. BUT, after asparagus and rhubarb, I’ve been sort of clueless...
by Daisy | Dec 7, 2011 | Fencepost, Reviews
I’m ashamed to admit this, but sometimes it takes someone else, someone else who is cool, to say something is cool before I start thinking of it that way. Take mustard greens. Lowly, southern USA comfort food. Plain ol’ mustard greens, not the...
