Hi Friends!

I've been blessed with an opportunity to teach Dallas Arboretum visitors how to cook seasonal, nutritious food at A Tasteful Place every Monday at 11am. A Tasteful Place is a new building located within the Arboretum, overlooking White Rock Lake, the Dallas...

Hi Friends!

Culinary school has been a wonderful and challenging undertaking. Once you're immersed into the world of cooking, it's hard to separate the schooling from the living! That's why I've been busy cooking up a storm and concocting all sorts of recipes I hope you...

Spring planting season is days away, and I know you're anticipating it as much as we are here at the urban farm! For most of us, this winter was a mild one. Not a lot of freezes meant for a slower winter crop development, but an extended growing season. If you're like...

Is there a more delicious food on the planet than French fries? Seriously...perfect for snacking, salty but delicate, and a great accompaniment to most meals (even filet mignon...although we just call them pommes frites when they garnish a fine dining experience).

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Happy 2017 everyone! I just love January, don't you? The last couple of months in the year are full of stress, rapidity, and expectation, but January is nothing but possibilities for the upcoming year. This is the time when people start reevaluating their healthy habit...

As the growing season comes to a screeching halt with this week's hard freeze, we're encouraged by the amount of support we've received since starting our business this spring. We've faltered, lost some plants, attempted to decipher a perfect brand for our business mod...

I wrote this blog a couple of years ago when I was frequently traveling to the land of organic salads, San Francisco, for several days at a time. Now that I've gotten certified in Holistic Nutrition, there's no way I would recommend this diet, but it's funny to see how...

This week I was blessed with the opportunity to do a cooking demo for a group of 20 very fun ladies in Frisco, TX. I brought some of our goodies from our urban farm, and purchased the rest at the farmers market up the street to maintain the theme of S.O.U.L. (seasonal,...

There aren't a lot of things more satisfying than growing your own nutritious produce, mindfully preparing it, and serving it to your family. Zero-waste cooking hacks, such as freezing or drying herbs and greens and canning tomatoes, make your life in the kitchen a lot...

During the summer of 2008, I started getting the weirdest feeling in my mouth whenever I would eat my beloved PBJs or when I snacked on pistachios (which was often!). Having eaten tree nuts and peanuts all my life without having any issues, I brushed it off as somethin...