garden Archives - Margaux Drake

MargauxTV: Native Plants of Seaside, FL

| garden, WholeHome
April 18, 2016

Seaside, FL is well known for being the birthplace for the New Urbanist Movement, it’s iconic architecture and all of its white picket fences but it has also always been completely landscaped with native plants, a more economical and sustainable landscape choice. 30 years ago when visionary developer, Robert Davis,...
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Dessert First!: POW in Your Mouth Raw Cacao Raisin Walnut Fudge

| Dessert, Detox/Cleanse, garden, Gluten-Free, Healthy Living, How-To, Plant-Based Cuisine, Raw Food, Recipes-Desserts, Vegan, WholeFood, WOTV 4 Women
July 20, 2012

Dessert First!POW in Your MouthRaw Cacao Raisin Walnut Fudge Thursday night eighty seven people packed into Harvest Health Foods in Hudsonville for my “Raw Foods Simplified” class. It was very exciting to see how many people from West Michigan are interested in raw, plant-based cuisine. Boys and girls, men and women, age...
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mTip: Thinking outside the (flower) box for inside floral arrangements

| Design, Economical, Floral Arrangements, Fun, garden, Garden, Gardening, Giving, How-To, Interior Plantscape, mTIPS
June 13, 2012

Don’t let flowers have ALL the funwhen it comes to interior floral arrangements.Think about grasses, foliage and seed pods too. Pictured here in my friend’s gorgeous Heaven On Earth-Home are;ornamental grass stalks (miscanthus giganteus) from our “green fence”,the seed pods of the red ursa kale (brassica napus) from our kitchen gardenand a...
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Mint Condition

| Economical, garden, Gardening, Healthy Living, How-To, Plant-Based Cuisine
May 23, 2012

Mint ConditionGiving mint a proper home. As a fastidious gardener, I have always snubbed invasive plants like mint. Never giving them the bed space equivalent of the time-of-day. Letting plants run amuck; here, there and everywhere? I don’t think so, not in my garden! For years, I’ve been keeping my mint sequestered...
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Presto! It’s Asparagus Pesto on WOTV 4 Women

| Dressings & Sauces, Economical, garden, Gluten-Free, Healthy Living, How-To, Pasta, Plant-Based Cuisine, Raw, Recipes-Entrees, Vegan, Videos, WholeFood, WOTV 4 Women
April 2, 2012

Presto! It’s Asparagus Pesto on WOTV 4 Women Looking to incorporate more seasonal produce into your culinary repertoire? Here’s a simple Spring dish using the first of our seasonal produce, asparagus. For a step by step look at how to prepare this quick and easy dish, click on the video player below. Asparagus...
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