It’s cider season in Normandy, France and Julia McLean loves to prepare homecooked meals flavoured with cider for her press gang helpers. Here are Julia’s delectable recipes. Your mouth will water just reading this and you’ll find yourself wishing you were sitting in Julia’s kitchen in France.
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An escapee from the big city finds many reasons to love life in a small community on the West Coast.
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Life As A Human Likes is a weekly feature of fascinating, enlightening, fun or perhaps just odd blogs and websites that enliven the experience of being human. This week, we feature 2 outstanding sites that consistently provide excellent content to their readers and one that just might represent the future of search! Winner, Bloggies 2009 […]
Lavender
It reminded her of an old boyfriend. It proved incredibly hard to grow. But Hippy Urban Girl soon learned that she had underestimated the trickster of gardens — lavender.
Incredible (and Sometimes Edible): How to Live with Weeds
Sometimes it seems as if the only certain things in the garden are death and weeds. Gardeners are constantly battling those tough, sneaky and promiscuous plants that insinuate themselves into any scrap of bare ground. But what makes a weed a weed anyway?
A Normandy Garden
Julia McLean finds the poetry in gardening as she writes about her Normandy garden, with its Cider House, 18th century cider press, herbs, flowers and cherries.
The Power of Paying Attention
I spent years working in an office with no windows nearby. Years under great banks of fluorescent lights with no inkling of whether it was day or night, summer or winter, sunny or stormy. And doing a stressful job. No wonder I came to realize that it was doing me in. The wonder is that I did it for so long. Now I’m lucky enough to work at home surrounded by greenery…
Soul in the Soil: The Most Beautiful Garden in the World – Part 1
Bunjae Artpia — on Jeju Island, 80km off the coast of South Korea, is the epitome of one man’s passionate sacrifice; a Korean pig farmer’s dream blossomed into reality — a garden of more than 2,000 bunjae (bonsai) trees.
How to Appreciate Bunjae (Bonsai) – Part 2
Bum-young Sung, the humble and brilliant creator of Bunjae Artpia, known as the world’s most beautiful garden, shares advice on how to fully appreciate bunjae (known as bonsai in Japan).
Amazing Asparagus: The Queen of Greens
Asparagus is amazing, nutritious and easy to grow (but you need patience). It can be baked, boiled, steamed, sautéed, grilled — and eaten raw. Sandra Phinney salutes the queen of vegetables, and offers up some delicious recipes.