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DigginFood
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DigginFood is a vegetable garden blog by Willi Galloway that serves up recipes, organic gardening tips, backyard chickens and coop information, DIY garden projects, and more!
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Plant I Love: Chervil

Chervil is perhaps the world’s cutest herb. It produces mounds of delicate, ferny foliage, and in early summer lacy white flowers float above the leaves, luring in lots of beneficial insects. C...

24 may 12

Avocado on Garlic Rubbed Toast

An acquaintance of mine who grew up in San Diego once told me she had an avocado tree in her childhood backyard, but she didn’t like avocados at the time and never ate them. I almost cried at t...

27 apr 12

Spiced Apple Puff Pancake

To enter last week’s Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard ">Free Range Chicken Garden book giveaway, I asked people to leave a comment with their fav...

19 apr 12

Urban Farm Handbook Challenge: Build a Trellis!

Seattle is full of inspiring gardeners, including Annette Cottrell who blogs at Sustainable Eats and co-authored with Joshua McNichols the Urban Farm Handbook: City Slicker Resources for Growing, Rai...

18 apr 12

Edible Gardening Events This Weekend

  Spring has finally sprung here in the Northwest! I will be in Washington this weekend talking about vegetable gardening and I hope that you’ll be able to come out to one of my events. He...

12 apr 12

Plant I Love: ‘Crane Red’ Kale

When I was in the Bay Area last month I made a pilgrimage to Annie’s Annuals nursery. Swoon! They of course have an amazing selection of ornamental plants, but they also offer a super cool coll...

07 apr 12

Giveaway!! Win a Copy of Free Range Chicken Gardens!

THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO COMMENTED! There are tons of chicken books out there. Books with portraits of rare and unusual chickens. Books about how to raise and care for chick...

05 apr 12

Sneak Peek: Sunset Magazine Demo Garden

Sunset magazine recently released the The New Sunset Western Garden Book: The Ultimate Gardening Guide ">New Sunset Western Garden Guide. Western gardeners like to call it “the gardening bi...

29 mar 12

Harvesting Kale Flower Buds

One of the best reasons to grow kale is that it produces a delightful extra edible: broccoli-like flower buds. Kale belongs to the Brassica (cabbage) family and it is a biennial, which means that it ...

14 mar 12

Spring Garden Clean Up

Yesterday I finally had a chance to get outside for some much needed garden time. My garden is a bit of a disaster at the moment, but luckily I had my four bird brained companions, Inky, Clyde, Bumb...

12 mar 12

San Francisco Bay Area, Here I Come!

I am jetting down to San Francisco later this month for a 10 day tour of the Bay Area. I can hardly wait to shop for seeds in Chinatown, soak up some sunshine, and meet lots of other vegetable garden...

09 mar 12

Guest Post on Garden Rant: The Extra Edibles

Hop on over to Garden Rant and check out my post on how to harvest and eat some of my very favorite spring crops: garlic scapes, green coriander seed, and pea shoots. Thanks so much to Michele for in...

25 feb 12

You’re Invited! Book Launch Party!

My official book launch party is this weekend and you’re invited! I love a good party and think it would be fun for you to all attend! The party is happening at the most perfect spot: Book Lard...

21 feb 12

3 Pretty Pea Varieties

I really cannot get enough peas in my garden. I grow shelling, sugar snap, and snow peas and also harvest tender pea shoots and eat them in salads. I’ve tried many pea varieties over the years ...

21 feb 12

Pretty Lettuce Combos

I joked earlier this week with my friend Dee that I think my motto for the spring will be “Viva Lettuce!”. And why not? After a long, muddy winter lettuce’s pert, ruffled leaves and...

17 feb 12

6 Lettuce Varieties to Love

For the longest time I just did not care for lettuce. Then I started growing my own and I realized that there is an entire world of lettuces beyond prepackaged romaine hearts and boxes of baby greens...

14 feb 12

Simple Vegetable Trellises

I’m demonstrating some simple trellises at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show today and wanted to share them here as well! Trellises play an important role in my garden, because they allow ...

08 feb 12 1 person likes this

Meet Me at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show (and in Anacortes!)

Did you know that you can eat radish roots and their greens, as well as their pretty blossoms and spicy seed pods? Well you can! And this week you can learn about more delicious edible extras to harv...

06 feb 12

Garden Inspiration on Pinterest

  While combing through a box in the garage a few months ago, I found a folder stuffed with torn out magazine pages and notes. It was my garden and home inspiration file from nearly a decade ago...

28 jan 12

Arugula Salad with Toasted Pepitas and Cojita Cheese

After we began growing most of our own salad greens, we quickly grew bored eating our way though a big bottle of store bought dressing and started making our own. Now I either make a little jar of dr...

25 jan 12

Plant I Love: ‘Super Rapini’ Broccoli Rabe (Plus a Book Giveaway!)

We are still harvesting quite a few greens out of our garden, despite the slushy weather. We have kale, arugula, pea shoots, and mache, but I am most excited about the broccoli rabe. I sowed it in la...

19 jan 12

My Book is On Sale!

Today I am so excited to announce that my book, Grow Cook Eat: A Food-Lover’s Guide to Vegetable Gardening, Including 50 Recipes, Plus Harvesting & Storage Tips, is now on sale! Having the ...

17 jan 12

Vegetarian Split Pea Soup with Smoked Paprika

After a long, busy day, this simple split pea soup is my go-to recipe for getting a healthy dinner on the table fast. The soup takes under an hour to make, with only about 15 minutes of hands on work...

21 dec 11

Red Pig Garden Tools

Outside of Boring, Oregon, on a rural road that winds past tree farms and fence-lined pastures, sits a rustic wooden barn that houses Red Pig Tools, makers of beautiful, classic garden tools. All of ...

19 dec 11

9 Fun Gifts for Gardeners

Succulent Ornament (Set of 3), $55 from Flora Grubb. Three small succulent cuttings come tucked in a box and ready to hang on the tree, or where you would like. The cuttings are live and the box incl...

12 dec 11

10 Practical Gifts for Gardeners

In my wanderings through the internet I come across quite a few fun ideas for gardeners. So I have gathered all my favorite products together and divvied them up in to three holiday gift guides: prac...

08 dec 11

Frost in the Vegetable Garden

When I stepped outside this morning to feed the hens, I found my arugula and broccoli rabe edged with a fine layer of frost. Frozen droplets of dew twinkled like crystals on the Brussels sprouts and ...

05 dec 11

December Desktop Calendar

On this first day of December I am delighted to share the final desktop calendar of the year with you. For each month of this big, fun, busy year, Anne Bryant created an image that fit both the seaso...

01 dec 11

Homegrown Thanksgiving

One of my favorite Thanksgiving traditions is to make at least one dish with homegrown food from our garden. Near the end of summer, I planted purple Brussels sprouts in the hopes that they would be ...

18 nov 11

Spiders Win the Day

The results are in and my mom selected Trish to win Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities and Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon and ...

04 nov 11

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