Category: Cooking

  • Please, Come Dine in my Garden and Help my Seed Business Grow…

    Please, Come Dine in my Garden and Help my Seed Business Grow…

    Here’s a little look back at some older photos of my garden, Campiello Maurizio… I want to tell you a bit about the dinners I had before the pandemic, and why I’ve chosen to host three more this summer to raise “seed” money for my online seed shop Spiffy Seeds. Back in 2015 I started…

  • Yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius)

    Yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius)

    Last autumn my friend Evan moved from Castle Rock, WA to the Portland metropolitan area. Most of the moving took place while I was still away in the Carolinas, but I made sure to have at least a day or two set aside to help transport whatever they needed, and to help wrap up garden…