Welcome to The Wine Box Gardener Blog. Here, you'll find posts about Urban Gardening, Fresh Ingredients and Exploring Our Local World.
Welcome to The Wine Box Gardener Blog. Here, you'll find posts about Urban Gardening, Fresh Ingredients and Exploring Our Local World.
A lot of recipes out there demonstrate how to make a dish that will be big enough for a family, group or party. The way my life is though, most of the time I'm looking for something fast and easy to make throughout the week for myself, or at the most, the two of us. I'll often do some ...
When you grow vegetables and herbs from seed, they first emerge and sprout a set of two leaves. These are not the true leaves, these are known as cotyledons. The cotyledons are what actually started as the seed itself and it provides nutrition to the seedling as it grows.
I'll start by saying that I have never liked pesto. Any time I tried it at a restaurant, it just didn't do it for me. So, when my husband suggested making pesto with the abundance of basil I had last year, I wasn't really that jazzed. But, what the heck ...
As I write this, I am witnessing my first tomato in the garden this season and the last can of tomatoes from last year's garden. It's bittersweet.
My first year of gardening, I'll admit, my yield of edibles was pretty dismal.
I thought it might be nice to grow a bit of mint for the summer cocktail season. Let's just say, I have no regrets. I know mint tends to grow out of hand, but hopefully, I'll find a way to keep up with production. Here's a classic recipe for Mojitos...
If you like a bike ride with a great reward at the end of it, you should try this route. This was the second time we did this route (we first did it in 2013), which starts and ends in Tewksbury, NJ in Hunterdon County. Our "destination" for this particular bike ride is ...
We took a trip to Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse back in December. It was cold, wet and lovely. Bobolink believes in letting their cows roam. In fact, their motto (and website) is "Cows Outside." They're 100% grass-fed and you can tell with the taste of their raw milk cheeses ...
I love the start of the gardening season. It's filled with so much hope and optimism. It's the moment your seeds turn to seedlings and they start to resemble their future selves with their true leaves. It's the moment you see promise and hope in the coming months.
I'm not going to lie - even if all you did at Valley Shepherd Creamery was spend some time in their fantastic gift shop, it would be time well spent. But, needless to say, you'd be missing out if you didn't do more. Valley Shepherd Creamery, located in Long Valley, NJ, uses European traditional ...
