Stacy Grow

We spent another Labor Day weekend in Ashland, Oregon this year (after enjoying it so much last time), and enjoyed some fine Shakespeare Festival delights. I always feel a rush when I first glimpse the Elizabethan stage. We saw "As You Like It" (and we...

Have you heard of Alys Fowler? To me, this young, pretty, hip British television star is to gardening what Jamie Oliver is to cooking in the UK. She makes it fun, fashionable and interesting with her shows and books set in picturesque, lovely locales.&...

Summer is starting to reward us with wonderful things. Like a variety of tomatoes: And melons, yes, melons! Tiger and Charentais, to be exact:  And finally, a wonderful recipe that I got from the book The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect ...

One thing I adore about San Francisco: Every trip there is unique, with new discoveries... and usually a few beloved things to which I'm irresistibly attached. Case in point: Primavera's Chilaquiles for breakfast at the Ferry Building Farmer's Market:S...

Ah, the eternal summer battle: Man vs. Zucchini. A friend let us come harvest thei community garden with them this week, and we left with bags of produce, including lots of zucchini. And then I started wondering if it was really possible (as I had hear...

I am wading through plums, and I am starting to feel more and more like a fool.  Like many novice fruit pickers, I struggle with the eternal question: Is this fruit ripe yet? Last year I made several blunders, picking apples, plums, and Asian pear...

Last year in a little bookshop in Ashland, Oregon, I bought this calendar for 2012:Obviously, this calendar and I were perfect for each other. Every month spotlights a different food, how to grow it, and offers several recipes using that food. This mon...

This is a story about a pie. It began last month, with a trip to a local berry patch.I discovered that the berry farm grew a wonderful seedless blackberry called a Marionberry.And they just happened to be ripe and ready to be picked that week:And so it...

This weekend we traveled to the Bay Area in an attempt to enjoy at least one real day of summer. We started our trip at Berkeley Bowl, the most amazing grocery store I have ever seen in my life. By the end of our exploration, we were jok...

I am freaking out, people. Freaking. Out. My yard is starting to show signs that it will be feeding me this year, and I am, as usual, inordinately ecstatic about it.Remember that scraggly orange tree that had never produced fruit when we bought our hou...