Happy new year all you gardeners out there. The following few weeks I’ll be posting some tidbits and advice on planting trees and perennials here …

Every month City of Austin utility customers receive a little insert with our bill. I normally am irritated by this waste of extra paper, but …

I tried these cookies for the first time this year. I had a difficult time rolling them and forming the shapes, but they turned out …

My garden is stagnating. I’ve heard from gardeners all around town who are having the same problem. No rain plus weird inconsistent temperatures is stalling our veggies’ growing patterns. Broccoli and other crops put in around September did their thing and are setting their second batch of crowns, but it seems that everything put in after that is just sitting. Waiting. Germinated then stalled. What is a gardener to do with weather doesn’t do its part? Get frustrated, for one.

This bread makes great Christmas gifts, Christmas morning breakfast, or Christmas camping anytime-during-the-day snacks. Enjoy plain, toasted, with butter, or straight from the freezer. Yum.

Have you been invited to a cookie swap party this season? These sugar cookies are sure to stand out from the rest. These cookies are very simple and fun to make with the kids. No bland, flavorless, crispy, crumbly, overly tooth achingly sweet cookies here!

Local pecans make delicious party snacks or stocking stuffers. Spiced pecans are sweet and spicy and super delicious.

Don’t despair over frozen Summer plants or piles of leaves to rake: start a compost heap today!

Another fun recipe for using up the end of season’s tomatoes. Relish!

An amazing cold night’s meal, sure to warm the tum and the soul: baked butternut squash filled with spicy gravy.

One of my favorite dishes to cook for dinner in Winter is “Pesto Kale.” I love kale and all it’s cancer fighting nutrition, but this …