Raising the Root

Thanks so much for taking the time to check out Raising the Root!  My intent is to dedicate this chunk of the internet (and of my life) to my love of food–from growing food to cooking food to–most importantly and most fun–eating food.

Recently, a friend who had just bought her first house with a yard asked me for some advice on vegetable gardening.  I started my first garden about ten years ago, and I have killed many many MANY plants (of all sorts) since then.  In hopes of saving my friend from making my mistakes, I was ready and willing to impart any knowledge that I could.  What resulted were several pages on how to start a vegetable garden, and I hadn’t even gotten the plants in the ground!  Thus a blog was born.

A quick note – I live in Denver, and all of my gardening experience has occurred at a mile above sea level.  If you are not in Colorado, some of the gardening details might not be helpful to you.  Also, things cook at different temperatures at altitude, so you might have to adjust a bit when following recipes.

I am certainly not an expert at gardening or cooking, but I am passionate about both, and I would be happy to try to answer any questions you have–please don’t hesitate to ask.

Through this blog, I hope to make the process of planting and eating from your garden easy, fun, and most of all—delicious.

I love food.  Love cooking.  Love gardening.  Hopefully a little bit of all of that will rub off on you.