One way to keep your cat away is to booby-trap the area around the plants to make it unpleasant to walk on--they make sticky-tack paper and little mats with plastic-nub "spikes" to lay around plant...

While it doesn't sound very green, a growlight can really get your plants off to a healthy start. You can get LED and Fluorescent lights that don't pull very much energy at all, and for me, a light...

Make things easier for yourself. If I find I'm less likely to do something the right way--like using the mandoline slicer to make even slices of onion--because something is put away somewhere incon...

Heirloom tomato sandwiches with fresh basil and chevre or mozzarella cheese on toasted rustic no-knead bread.