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I thought you might spend a portion of the long weekend as I am, cooking and saving some seed and looking for some good reading -- so in all those cases, I've got you covered:
giveaway: 'the heart of the plate' brimming with ideas
The adventure in Mollie Katzen's "The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation," begins even before the first recipe. It starts in the delicious, intimate endpapers -- derived from illustrated journals that the author has been keeping since she was a teenager, which were also the origin of her beloved, bestselling "Moosewood Cookbook."
The musings (that's one in the photo above right), in drawings and hand-lettered words, speak to how Mollie, a keen gardener and the guest on my latest radio show, approaches food today. Learn how she suggests we re-define "vegetarian;" how she "paints [her] rice," and makes her simplest, most delicious tomato sauce. And maybe win her newest book.
free to download: a 30-page guide to saving seed
The hooks on my mudroom walls offer no space for coats. Paper shopping bags are hanging instead, one after another with faded, upside-down plants inside. That's my primitive tactic, but there are better ways to save seed, and Organic Seed Alliance shares them -- from which variety you grow with eventual saving in mind, to maintaining that crop in the garden, to drying and even storing it, all in a free, 30-page book-like pdf download loaded with botanical science and sensible tips, too. Start here.
inner conifer needles turning brown? remain calm! I know: It looks scary. But when inner needles on your conifers go yellow or brown in late summer or fall, it's typically just part of the normal shedding process, like this. | 
