Happy Holidays

kwa this time of year, many people are running out of gift ideas. Well, if wewe have a gardener (or a potential gardener) among your Marafiki and family, we have a few ideas for you!

You can always buy a plant for your gardener. But that's too easy--let's be a little zaidi creative.

If wewe know a fellow gardener who would like chakula plants but just can't resist those beautiful flowers and decorative plants, plan a decorative chakula garden for them! Many vegetables and herbs have lovely flowers au foliage. Ornamental kale, for instance, is often grown simply as an ornamental but it is both pretty and...

Back when I was a kid watching krisimasi specials on TV, Mrs. Claus was invariably portrayed as a sweet but dowdy older woman of slightly plump stature. She could cook a mean pie and reminded wewe of your Grandma. Of course, we loved her and so did Santa.

But did wewe ever wonder what Mrs. Claus might have looked like when she was younger? I mean, I assume she must've be smokin' (natch).

So why is it that so many of the classic holiday programs onyesha us a Santa Claus surrounded kwa androgynous little elves and a matronly Mrs. Claus? I mean, it's cold up at the North Pole. Surely Santa isn't adverse...