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  Just a quick update! Our blueberries continue to delight me. I’m picking about 6-8 oz. a day! This is our best harvest ever. Feeling bountiful, I baked a batch of Blueberry Hand [...]

Nothing beats walking in from the garden with enough freshly picked blueberries to make a delicious and nutritious summer treat! This year’s crop is plentiful and we are enjoying [...]

I’ve been offline for awhile, taking a break from the GreenQuest Gardens. Now that the soil is warming up there’s plenty happening again. Perennials are poking up and last night we [...]

The best part of gardening is having tomatoes to spare. Big bowls of lush heirlooms. Tiny sweet cherry tomatoes. Heavy paste tomatoes. Even more tomatoes on the vine for next week… My goal [...]

This year, finally, we have a real crop of blueberries! We’ve been picking almost a pint a day. It’s a bumper crop compared to last year, when I could find only a few ripe berries at [...]

We grow a few hundred bulbs of organic garlic each year and every June I am at my wits end for what to do with the scapes. This year our friends Gregory and Orry Leon at Amilinda Restaurant in [...]

My kitchen is filled with the spicy scent of freshly cut chives. I love to cook with fresh herbs and I also dry them for use in wintertime. It’s easy to do and considering the price of [...]

Mention the word rhubarb to a true Midwesterner and you will see a starry-eyed look and a big silly grin on their face. I did not grow up eating rhubarb, so I really don’t understand this love [...]

It’s been a long cold spring in Wisconsin and I am so eager to get things planted! My kitchen counter is cluttered with little pots of things getting a start indoors.I know it’s too [...]

We love working with Milwaukee area gardeners because it gives a chance to learn new things from others. Whenever we offer a workshop we take away some tidbit that comes out of the experience [...]