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The following is a public service announcement brought to you by the Cilantro Advisory Board, or C.A.B.  Please take a moment to read this message, and seriously consider this growing problem which threatens the future culinary life of cilantro in American homes.

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We here at C.A.B. are exceedingly proud of the special way in [...]

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Have you ever had a nightmare where something terrifying was after you, yet when you tried to move, your legs were paralyzed?  Forcing yourself to move took an excruciating amount of time and once you actually started running from the thing that pursued you, you found that you could only move in slow motion…step [...]

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There is a new visitor rapping on my garden gate.  I did not invite him, nor his many friends and relations.  I have never seen him before, nor do I wish to ever see him again.  In the hot summer season of dry crunchy grass, wilting pepper plants [...]

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We go back a long way…

Parting with the various bits and pieces that make up the clutter of our lives is one of the most difficult tasks imaginable.

It is also one of the most freeing.

I have never been particularly good at minimalism. When I was in my twenties and the contents of my [...]

It doesn't look much better in the garden

The older I get – the more creases that this earthly life irons into the linen around my eyes – I realize how precious a sense of humor is.  This has never been truer than in the aftermath of this summer, this season of woe and willful [...]

One of the many reasons that I keep so many books on gardening in my own personal library is to search for inspiration on those difficult days when I can’t seem to find the motivation to pick up a trowel. These moments happen more often than one would think – yet even the books pale [...]