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Have you ever brought home a bunch of fresh basil from the grocery store, only to find it flopping sadly within hours? You can also try using this trick with wilted cut flowers, especially if you harvested them in the heat of the day or forgot your flowers in your hot car or didn’t get them in water right away.  Here’s a magical solution that will bring your wilted flower or basil back to life and keep it vibrant for days. This simple hack will transform your floppy basil or wilted flower into a fresh and lively stem again. It's called...

My friend Susan, who's travelling in the UK, sent me this picture of eggs on a grocery store shelf.... Have you ever noticed that throughout Europe, you see eggs sharing the shelf with cereal? The eggs are not next where we'd expect them to be in the refrigerated section next to the milk, cheese and butter. Wondering why that is? It's all about the Bloom, baby! What’s Bloom you ask?  It’s a thin, waxy, and slightly sticky protective coating naturally secreted by hens onto the surface of freshly laid eggs. Initially wet, it quickly dries (in seconds) to form an invisible...

The wild flowers in the field this morning were vibrant, the yellow trefoil and purple alfalfa and white new england asters…and then when harvesting for bouquets the flowers were equally as beautiful. I think Rachel, Ben’s girlfriend has me seeing the flowers a little differently this week.  She was here to celebrate Ben’s birthday… He went to work and she was left to flower with me. At first I thought she was faking it but she wasn’t…she excitedly embraced everything flowers. From washing buckets, to the prospect of harvesting and the opportunity to "play with flowers." She was so genuinely...

  You know what? It's never too late to start, planting a garden in June that is.  I know you've been thinking about it, and I want to encourage you to dive right in.  The gardening season is just beginning, and there's so much you can still plant and enjoy. Trust me, you're going to love the experience of nurturing your own little green oasis.  Here’s why starting a garden now, in June, is an exciting opportunity filled with endless possibilities. Discover the Late-Season Magic:Just because it's June doesn't mean you've missed out on all the gardening fun. In fact,...