Winter 2009 Gift Guide: Under $15

Holiday gift ideas, including quirky gingerbread molds, sweet ideas for tabletops, and special seeds for your favorite gardener.

Life Lessons in Gardening

Brent Ridge of Beekman 1802 discusses leaving Martha behind for dirty feet and early morning pig feedings. (By Roxanne Webber)

Indoor Composting Systems

Turn kitchen scraps into fertilizer with one of these kits. (By Michele Foley)

10 Vegetable Seed Suppliers

Where to buy exotic, heirloom, and regional vegetable seeds for your home garden. (By Roxanne Webber)

Slow Food Nation's Victory Garden

Fight bad food policy by growing your own. (By Roxanne Webber)

100 Days in the White House: A Garden Menu

Hope grows, in a garden.

Garden Harvest Toasted Chips and Hemp Bliss Organic Hempmilk

This week’s mission: Quasi-healthy chips containing fruit, and nondairy “milk” that tastes like rancid nuts. (By James Norton)

Bloom Tote Bag

Carry a garden on your arm.

How to Grow Herbs Indoors

Easy? Maybe not. Rewarding? Hell yeah. (By Roxanne Webber)

Eat Your Lawn

A new wave of gardeners replants front yards with food. (By Roxanne Webber)

Pastry Puffs That Look Catered

This week’s mission: pseudo-elegant frozen pastry bites, and Wheat Thins with more fiber. (By James Norton)

Another Secretly High-Calorie Salad

This week’s mission: Cold meets hot on a lettuce bed, and a new fast-food breakfast. (By James Norton)

What Does "Heirloom" Mean?

Seeds passed from generation to generation. (By Michele Foley)

Why Do You Need a Nonreactive Bowl for Some Recipes?

It’s a matter of flavor and color. (By Roxanne Webber)

Running with Knives

Mushy polenta is one chef’s downfall.