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20.09.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Homesteader Heirloom Apples and Real Cider

Food + Landscape Trees + recipes

The Renaissance of Heirloom Apples Traditionally, an old fashioned fall treat has been the availability of aromatic autumn apples and the rich complex flavor of pressed cider. Although grocery stores attempt to carry “cider” in pasteurized containers all year, the taste is insipid in comparison to the special flavor that blended heirloom varieties give to…

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07.05.14 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Ready To Eat Local? How About Slow Gardening?

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Go Slow Slow Food and Slow Gardening are related. What is slow food you ask? Sourcing your ingredients locally and using high quality is the gist of it. Growing your own would be a part of it, but patronizing the farmer’s markets and encouraging your grocer’s to supply locally produced products would be part of…

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18.08.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Good Reason To Eat Locally Grown Tomatoes

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If you weren’t convinced already, the truth about your store bought, commercially grown tomato is out and being broadcast. Everything You Wanted To Know About Tomatoes But Were Afraid To Ask gives everyone a heads up on the new book, Tomatoland, by Barry Estabrook If ever there were a plethora of reasons to grow your…

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07.07.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Responsible and Remarkable Resource

An Armchair Gardener + Food

I like to shop at Whole Foods, and this spring I picked up a free magazine called “Edible Columbus”. I got a chance to really read through and get into the articles within, and was surprised at the range and depth of this great resource. It was a complimentary issue, and I hope it is…

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09.03.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

What’s Cooking?

Food + General gardening

Many very fine garden books I had purchased in the past had recipes included in a chapter towards the back. ‘Herbs: Gardens, Decorations, and Recipes’ was one. I am wondering if that isn’t a trend to look for again in the future. Not predicting it, but it seems that everywhere food and cooking is moving…

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13.10.10 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Alisa Barry of Bella Cucina Features Branzini Baked Cod & Salsa Verde on…

Food + recipes

Delicious light cooking is in season for both fall as well as springtime. I always look for fish dishes I think my family will eat. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~© 2010 written for Ilona’s Garden Journal. Copyrights apply.

07.10.10 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Wall Street Guru Gives Gardening Advice

Food + Frugal Tips

Swiss Chard Not Swiss Banks There is an awful lot of speculation about the economy and where the financial shape of the world (and our future) is going and proffered advice on how we can protect ourselves from hard times. Jim Rogers, Well Known Investment Guru Jim Rogers, an expert investor, has good advice for…

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06.10.10 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Rossella’s Salad

Food + recipes

Here is the link to Rossella’s Salad with the figs and fennel. She is undoubtedly a better cook than me, but I think I would lightly braise the fennel. Rocket is not widely available here, but baby spinach is, and I would use that. Rossella’s Simple but Wonderful Salad. *Note to self: arugula is probably…

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12.07.10 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Growing Organic

Food + tomatoes + Vegetable garden

Just to underline the fact that there is more than one reason to “grow your own” and that organic methods are the best way to do that. clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com It’s happening to crops in the United States, too. In 2004, Donald Davis, PhD, a former researcher with the Biochemical Institute at the University of…

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05.07.10 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

Rock Dust

Food + Garden soil

I came across an interesting video that combines some thoughts I’ve attached to over the years. It inspires me to get some local rock dust from the gravel pits around here- we are a glaciated region. Well, I’m not considering becoming vegetarian any time soon, but it just makes sense to build the depleted soils…

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