Or more accurately, how to regrow green onions without dirt. A green onion is kinda like a lizard. You can pull off its tail, and a new one will grow right back.
I harvested all my green onions last month — and exactly 40 days later, I still have fresh green onions growing daily.
The trick? A glass of water and a sunny windowsill.
Last weekend, I spent three days in the Sierra foothills, camping and kayaking on the Kings River. I brought only one layer with me: Icebreaker’s merino wool Quantum Hood.
I wore my Quantum hoodie day and night… pre-breakfast, post-kayaking, around the campfire and on a hike. I wore it as a layer over a tee, a cover-up over a bikini, and even as a top by itself.
This isn’t your grandma’s wool, the kind that looked like a rug and made you itch like crazy. This is your kind of wool — sustainable, soft and stylish, the kind of wool you can wear even when it’s not winter. The kind of wool that will become one of your favorite fleeces. The kind of wool that Icebreaker and I are teaming up to give away!
I have special memories of the Kings River. The first and last time I paddled its roller coaster rapids was back in 2008 for my birthday, which kick-started all the river trips every summer since.
After a few years of kayaking our local Kern River and exploring more remote rivers, my guy and I decided to revisit the Kings for a long weekend of camping under the supermoon.
It was running at a good cfs (cubic flow per second) last weekend, which is saying a lot considering our very dry winter. Its flow comes from natural snowmelt in the high western Sierra Nevada, and since it’s practically summer up in those parts, the flows were fast and fading. We packed up the pugs, the kayaks, and the camping gear, and set off for the six-hour drive from Los Angeles.
Despite many chicken-keeping sources claiming chickens like to share nest boxes — up to four of them per nest — each one of my divas prefers her own throne. Go figure.
It often blows my mind that something like this can be found just 30 minutes from the heart of Los Angeles!
On top of that, it’s only a 4-mile round-trip hike on a trail so easy, it suits “non-hikers and hikers who are drunk,” according to the wise friend who’d invited us. Not that any of us would be drunk at 10 in the morning… and not that Blue Moon in a can counts as a drink…
… As my veggie-loving pug will tell you!
Most people don’t realize that broccoli leaves are just as edible as the broccoli head itself. And I can’t blame them, since store-bought broccoli comes in a neat little package with only a few tiny leaves stuck to the head.
Few things in the garden are more mesmerizing than the Italian heirloom brassica of Romanesco broccoli.
This chartreuse bud is an edible flower that is also known as a Romanesco cauliflower, but it’s technically neither — truly in a class of its own. It’s a fine work of art and a mathematical marvel. Did you know that a Romanesco is a beautiful example of a Fibonacci fractal in the natural world?
