Orange in the garden! This week, it finally is tomatoes. A few sungolds are ripening up - they are orange cherry tomatoes - and, of course, taste like nothing else. The real excitement though, is dehydrating the basil. We loaded up the racks and ran the dehydrator very low for about 16 hours total and got fragrant, amazing...

Quinoa in a new starring role Quinoa, a sacred staple of the ancient Incas, grows beautifully at altitude, so it is now grown here in the Rockies. It is considered a complete protein by some and does have a lot of the essential amino acids. It cooks very quickly and I have found it in white or red. The red is very pretty in the Sprouted...

Red in the Garden! No, not tomatoes–raspberries. What a lovely thing to have seasonal fruit, fresh off the bushes, with my bare feet and fingers stained red.