Musings from Little Grove Farm

Springtime! The curious odor of some small rotting thing wafts up from a potted plant, and I know I missed a Biarum flower bud until it open...

It is that season between Halloween and Thanksgiving, when so many of the bulbs that waited patiently over the summer sense the return of co...

Best Auroras in decades! Amazing! When charged particles from the sun (and rarely other sources) encounter the Earth, our protective magneti...

Chicken Noodle Soup is a classic - we have many versions, this is one of our favorites: The recipie is fairly simple: 2 large yellow oni...

Amorphophallus konjac is one of our reliable Spring bloomers. The flower emerges from a giant (like 20 pound) potato-esque tuber without any...

Meet another Ground Nut, the Bambara Nut. Bambara are related to peanuts, and are cultivated all over Southern Africa. These nuts are actua...

It has been a wonderfully wet Winter in California this year - that means mushrooms! A gem that we never get enough of is flourishing this y...