HOME, GARDEN & SENIOR LIVING
How To Create a Safe Home Environment for Older Adults
May 16, 2024 at 11:25 a.m.
Boost the Beauty and Comfort of Your Outdoor Spaces
Even simple changes can make a positive impact on the time you spend relaxing and entertaining on your patio, deck, or other outdoor spaces
Enjoy leeks, the mild-mannered cousins of onions
A mild form of onion, leeks get sweeter when you cook them. You can use them any time a recipe calls for onions or green onions.
Ways to Make Gardening Easier as You Age
"I love to putter around and work in the garden, but my back and knees have caused me to curtail my gardening activities"
Grow Fruit in Containers
Have fun and enjoy picking fresh fruit right outside your door thanks to compact varieties you can grow in containers
Embrace the Cauliflower Craze for a Healthier You
Step aside kale, cauliflower is taking the spotlight as the ultimate health superstar
Choosing a Senior Community That Offers All Levels of Care
I need to downsize from my current house, and I want my next move to be my last
2024 Winning Flowers for Your Garden and Containers
Volunteer judges rate entries based on their improved performance, flavor, disease resistance, and other unique qualities related to their performance in gardens and containers
Sweet and Simple
Honey, sugar, molasses, sweet fruits, maple syrup or simple syrups can build big, bold flavor so you don’t need, and don’t miss, that extra salt in our diets that is killing one in seven Americans.
Selecting the Right Potting Mix for Your Plantings
There are some things you can do to increase your success and reduce ongoing maintenance
How to Bake Easy
How can we get the salt out of baked goods?
Taming the Stuff in Your Home
Having too much stuff can impede people from relocating or getting health care into their homes
Spring Garden Cleanup with Pollinators in Mind
As we learn more about the important pollinators, insect-eating toads, songbirds and beneficial insects, the more we realize we need to adjust some of our garden timing and methods
Bottom of the barrel? Use up your garden harvest
Now it’s getting close to spring, it's time to find new ways to use up excess winter fruits and vegetables.
