Category: Random Posts from Home

  • To Love One’s Vegetables and Philosophy Too

    My Sicilian relatives never lived on the East Coast. They immediately headed to Oregon where they’d heard the soil was good and cities were open for business. They were truck farmers vending fruits and vegetables during the first generation, a dream that would never have been possible in Sicily. My grandfather Salvatore (aka Sam), the…

  • Grapevine Axe Murderer on the Loose in Austria

    As many of you already know, my husband Pietro is a winemaker and part-time winegrower—son of a winegrower. He is not a gardener, though he enjoys helping me, and in the past, he enjoyed vegetable gardening a lot. For now though, he is a winegrower with his father, and he knows a lot about the…