I have the quickest garden craft to show you! Do you like to age terra cotta pots? Me too! I have the easiest way how to age terra cotta pots that will take less than 10 minutes.

Come on in and let me how you how!

There’s a French restaurant in downtown Poughkeepsie that has the best fried oyster appetizer. The oysters are fried perfectly, nestled over a bell pepper relish and with a dab of garlic aioli over top. Scrumpdelish. It’s the kind of dish that you think about, almost obsessively, until you eat it again. I did muster up the nerve to ask the chef to share the recipe, but natch, he was tight-lipped.

After testing fried oyster recipes, I figured out the secret to frying oysters perfectly is combining flours, and perfecting fry time. And, I have perfected this favored fried oyster appetizer, and perhaps, I’ve perfected the recipe even better than I recalled. Here is the secret to frying oysters perfectly!

There’s something to be said about the pride that one feels when something is made by the hands of a loved one.

How about a garden bench?! Mac built this one for me, using reclaimed iron bench sides I found at a salvage shop.

This bench has a beautiful story behind it. Come on in and see!

Depending on where you live, you still could be a couple weeks out of planting your vegetable plants in the ground. This is where cold frames come in.

I’m sharing all of the benefits of cold frames and how to build them. And if you’re not in to the DIY, I’m sharing ones that I recommend and where to buy them.