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Guide to Planting a Boxwood Hedge

Boxwood hedges are a classic design element of both formal and informal or cottage-style gardens. They function as the structure or “bones” of a garden. Learn how to design, plant and care for boxwood hedges of your own.

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A small boxwood seedling placed in a hole underneath a string guideline sitting next to an auger and a few spring perennialsMany small boxwood seedlings lined up along a string guideline to form a hedge surrounding a bed of perennials on a small front lawn

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A bowl of coconut chicken curry with eggplant and rice, garnished with fresh cilantro and lime wedges

Creamy Coconut Chicken Curry with Eggplant

This past week, tragedy struck my tomato seedlings. Six weeks prior I planted several flats of heirloom tomatoes including two varieties of beefsteak and a beautiful lobed variety I couldn’t wait to see - costoluto genovese.

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Bowl of Finnish salmon soup with a kitchen towel and a tray of parker house rolls
March 22, 2019

Finnish Salmon Soup (Lohikeitto)

In my early twenties my roommate invited myself and another friend to her parent’s home for dinner. It would be a themed potluck, wherein the host, and each guest, would make and bring a dish representative of their heritage. Initially, I was nervous

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Bowl of gnocchi with roasted beets and a sage butter sauce with a striped kitchen towel, a small pinch bowl of walnuts, and a few sage leaves
February 28, 2019

Pan-Fried Gnocchi with Roasted Beets and Sage Butter Sauce

Helen Rosner, enviable food writer for the New Yorker; James Beard award nominee for what is perhaps the best piece of food writing I read in 2017—Dear Olive Garden, Never Change; and subject of the absurd hairdryer-chicken-saga, tweeted sometime las

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Several cranberry banana muffins on a dark grey kitchen towel with a glass bottle of milk, bowl of cranberries, and a few extra muffins in the background
January 21, 2019

Cranberry Banana Muffins

If you were to come over to my house, open the freezer, and look into the side-door, you would find frozen bananas. Not a couple of stray frozen half-moons scattered about, but many, stacked tightly together like a brick wall, a freezer door packed t

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