After the holidays, I find it easy to slide into the winter doldrums, as I anticipate the long nippy weeks before the spring.

With the weather we’ve had lately, seed and plant catalogs provide a welcome escape for us to ponder future spring and summer plantings. It’s fun and challenging to try new vegetable varieties ...

Of course not. Browsing the catalogs and online lists makes the process all that much better whether you buy your seeds mail order of from the garden center rack. Seed packets are just plain awesome.

Many gardeners skip seed starting in favor of purchasing plants, often assuming the tools necessary for indoor sowing will be too expensive to make the project practical. However, you often can ...

It begins in December. By January, seed and plant catalogs arrive at your mailbox (or email) almost daily. Browsing through their pages provides a welcome escape from the garden-deprived days of ...

It begins in December. By January, seed and plant catalogs arrive at your mailbox (or email) almost daily. Browsing through their pages provides a welcome escape from the garden-deprived days of ...

The seed catalogs are arriving and are filled with wonderful pictures of beautiful plants. Over the years I have gotten catalogs from more companies than I can count and my favorite has always been ...

Then, two months later, his iconic Montrachet restaurant followed. Rise opened in the old Mica premises at Breakfast Creek in December.Markus Ravik Kellam was a major presence on the local food scene.