Winter 2008 Gift Guide

There’s never been a better time to give.

Spring Greening

Ecofriendly cleaning products to whip your kitchen into shape.

Modern Potluck

Feed a crowd with recipes from some of CHOW’s favorite chefs.

Eat Your Lawn

A new wave of gardeners replants front yards with food.

Mushrooms Will Save the World

And other findings from Taste^3^ 2007.

The CHOW 13

Our first annual awards, presenting a baker’s dozen of provocateurs, trendsetters, and rabble-rousers.

I have a multi tray wormcomposter in my garden. Ants have invaded the top shelf, how can I get rid of them without harming the worms or the integrity of the compost and worm tea? Thanks

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What to Do with Leftover Coffee Grounds

So useful well beyond percolation.

Just remember: as you clean up this year’s garden, be careful to avoid putting blighted or fungally-infected plant remains in the compost bags or bin. And, if you rely on public compost in the spring, you might want to be...

"NATURE WORKS PLA (sic) COMPOSTABLE" Anyone familiar with this? Do they really mean compostable, not recyclable? NO recycle symbol. If it’s plastic, and compostable, do we really want this is our compost stream? Anyone?

Got this topic on the wrong board originally, but did get an answer there. Yes, there is compostable plastic being produced and it reads "compostable" on the back side; there are no recycle symbols. So don’t put it in with...

Composting is becoming more and more popular, in fact you can head to your Local Sam’s Club and snatch up a plastic compost bin for about $150.00. Why would you want to spend $150 on a compost bin when you could very easily build...

With all the delicata threads, I have become sensitized to it ;)..So when the following article appeared in the Globe today, I turned to it right away...The author tells of her love of delicata, and the “volunteer”...

Animal skulls as compost aside, the goal of biodynamics with wine is to have a vineyard that naturally deters pests and combats disease through its own strength and diverse ecosystem.

Verjus is the pressed, unfermented juice of unripe wine grapes, first used in the sixteenth century.