I have to leave my Silicon Valley garden for a few weeks, but it will be in good hands. My $5 investment in a few packs of seeds will turn out to be a good investment.
I may have left my garden in Los Angeles behind, but a new one has begun in a Silicon Valley town, Cupertino, once known for apricots and prunes.
This is the third consecutive year that I have planted a garden in our backyard. The benefits to gardening are many: exercise, Vitamin D from the sun, controlling what you eat, and developing an ecosystem in your own backyard.
I try my best to buy fruits and vegetables when they are in season. I loved my time in Chile, but I prefer not to buy produce shipped from there. I’m staying away from salad greens, only because we got spoiled last year when we grew our own salad greens: my attempt at a winter [...]