Author Archives for Kathy Hester

Sticks and Stones Can Make My Pizza Anytime


This weekend we took a green field trip to Greensboro, NC, which is about an hour away from my house in Durham. Our goal was to eat dinner at a new organic pizza place we found out about called Sticks and Stones. Located at 2200 Walker Avenue, you can contact them at 336-275-0220 if you […]

AreoGarden: One Way to Grow Food Inside


I finally bought an AreoGarden 2 weeks ago. It seems like an expensive toy, but in the dreary winter I need a chance to ‘tend garden’ every day. I wanted to give it a try and see if it could lift my winter blues. It has a sensor that alerts you when you need to […]

Save Money with Organic Grocery Coupons


With food prices rising, you can pick up some of the slack with coupons. There may not be as many coupons for organics, but they are out there. You just have to do some leg work.
Make sure to look where you shop. At your local co-op and/or Whole Foods stores you’ll find some coupons right […]

Meal Planning for You and the Enviroment


Is your compost pile eating as well as you are? Maybe a little menu planning could solve that. If you’re like me, you don’t go to the farmer’s market with the idea of composting a bunch of beautiful rainbow chard. Or at least it was beautiful when you bought it, but now it’s in the […]

Caesar Salad Dressing with Meyer Lemon


Earlier this year I got myself a dwarf Meyer lemon tree. I have wanted one for a few years. It was only 2 feet tall, but already covered in green baby lemons. Now, 6 months later, I have about 8 juicy yellow Meyer lemons to cook with.
It looked beautiful on my deck, and the white […]

A Pear Panini, Localized


Fall is one of my favorite seasons for eating. I love all the winter squashes, greens, and especially the pears. Pears are a special treat. Since they have to be picked when they are hard, it’s always a gamble about eating them at the perfect firmness. You should put your pears in a brown paper […]

Plant a Cool Weather Vegetable Garden


It may seem like the season to grow food is coming to an end, but really it’s just time to plant some cool weather loving veggies. It can be disheartening to see those heirloom tomatoes go, but I’ll be glad to have more lettuce, arugula, and broccoli again.
I am inspired by Eliot Coleman’s book Four […]

Kathy Hester

I live in Durham NC with my partner, 2 cats and a big silly dog. I am a full time web developer who loves to cook, eat, garden, knit and hopes for more hours in the day to pack it all in. I have an abundance of amazing fresh heirloom produce to experiment with between shopping at the Durham Farmers Market and expanding my veggie garden. I’m a long time vegetarian making an effort to eat more locally grown and produced foods. I love to try odd recipes and vegetables that I have never seen before, and invite unsuspecting friends over to try it with me. Being passionate about composting, recycling, and always looking for new ways to save money and be greener at the same time seems to have become my other part time job. I currently write for my own blog: Geek, Poet, Housewife Wannabe, and blog for chowSpice, YeahTips, and am just starting to write for the Wellfed Network on Growers and Grocers.