There’s a new place where you can find me each week, and that’s over on KCET’s new Living section! The nation’s largest independent public television station recently launched their online Living division, which features all the things that make life good: food, travel, green living, and home and garden. My focus is on Home & [...]
En La Casa
If you follow my Facebook page, you may have noticed a few recent posts from my new project, This Is La Buena Vida, which launched this past weekend! The site aggregates all of the images from my new Instagram account @GardenBetty. As a photo-centric blog, This Is La Buena Vida is my personal pinboard for [...]
Well whaddya know, I’m an expert at something! (Granted, I don’t always feel like an expert after slugs have decimated my seedlings or fresh manure has burned my plants. But I do know my way around a hori hori knife and never let a good beer go to waste.) I’m so thrilled to be featured [...]
I just joined the team as a contributing writer for Apartment Therapy’s Re-Nest! Very excited about this new opportunity! Re-Nest is a terrific resource if you like good design and want to “green” up your home. Twice a week I’ll be blogging over there about sustainable design, decor and living. Now you’ll get your fill [...]
The Perfect Day can take on many incarnations, but one of my favorites involves good friends, great surf, stellar sunset, steamy hot tubbing, midnight conversations around a fire, zesty carne asada, and fresh-squeezed clementine margaritas. It’s an entirely way-too-easy way to take down four tequila shots in one deliciously juicy minty drink! Aahhhhh… Yes. This [...]
To start off the holiday right, a Christmas Day brunch courtesy moi. Eggs Benedict gets the Garden Betty treatment: poached egg whites on sourdough English muffins, topped with Canadian bacon, heirloom tomatoes, wilted spinach, pioppini mushrooms, and my über decadent Hollandaise sauce. Not decadent enough though, as the unofficial mother-in-law restricted me to just one [...]
Before moving into our micro farm by the sea, my typical day consisted of this: Wake up in “the cave” (an affectionate term for the windowless bedroom walled off with corrugated metal in our loft), stroll down the hallway to make a cup of coffee, sit down in front of the computer to tackle the [...]
