Tomato tasting: Part 4; Goddess Salad
Ariel and Rachel have been friends since they met at Frosh week at university. The two would sit at my kitchen island as I fed them delicacies that I had just cooked. Rachel…
Corn-servation
Buying supplies for my rooftop garden, I had an after thought." Why not try growing corn in the planters? I am sure it will look beautiful and rustic." I picked up a cell…
There will be cotton
Today, I noticed our cotton is growing fat bolls. When they burst we will have cotton. Cotton has been cultivated for 7,000 years, but is this a first for Canada?
Spoon Tomatoes
Standing in the greenhouse looking at a choice of seedlings of 200 varieties of heritage tomatoes I could grow was a thrill.This Spring having built more wooden boxes and added more colored plastic tubs to my office roof…
Seeds along the Silk Route
My daughter Ariel www.interaxon.com plucked a dill flower from the garden . "Mmm tastes like plov." It wasn't a stretch of her gustatory imagination. Ten years ago, Ariel, Joel and…
Aujourd’hui “Christina” est arrivee en France!
Early this Spring a very stylish and beautiful woman came to my studio to buy a painting.Her name is Christina. As we looked through some of my portraits her equally stylish…
White Waves, Paint White, Fully in the Color Spectrum: Michelle Lloyd’s Birthday
It's not often , I get to spend time fully in the color spectrum, in a world of white. It was Michelle's birthday and we got to boat across the…
No one here but us chickens!
no one here but us chickens On the road to Crowe's Landing ,Stoney Lake ,there is a farm wth an arresting sign: a life size soft sculpture of an old…
Not your usual Medieval Salat; more Recipes from the Concert
Last month on a tour of the Medieval Gardens At The Cloisters, the uptown branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the docent paused in the herb garden to tell us…
Mutiny on the Blueberry Bounty
Driving back from The Stratford Festival on Sunday amongst endless grain fields stood a blueberry farm. Of course, I had to stop. The farmer convinced me that I wanted to buy all…