Kristie McNealy, MD

Last month, I blogged about my garden, and I’ve decided it would be fun to share updates all season long.  Since I last wrote about it, the garden in both our back and front yard has been flourishing, with the exception of our cucumbers.  I’m not really sure what’s going on with them aside from [...]

While I’ve dabbled in gardening in the past, mostly in containers on my back patio, I’ve never considered myself gardener.  This winter however, with grocery prices rising, and our focus on eating whole, organic foods increasing, I really began to wish that I had put some effort into gardening and storing veggies last summer.
We began [...]

For whatever reason, growing lima beans is the kindergarten project that I most remember from way back when.  There’s just something magical about watching a little bean on a damp paper towel sprouting into a real live plant.  So, when my oldest daughter asked if we grow some beans like project she saw in Highlights [...]