Spring 2025

  • Bird in the Hand

    Reno farm wishes happy quails to you. Quail eggs offer many health benefits over chicken eggs, says Serena Hehnke, co-owner of Happy Quails HQ, a Reno-based quail farm. Hehnke — who owns the business with her bird-obsessed partner Anna Farb — says the birds not only are higher in protein than chickens, with more vitamins…

  • Trout to Table

    Fish for your dinner, then let the chef take over. People often frequent restaurants to avoid the shopping, prep, and cooking involved in creating a meal at home. But every once in a while, a restaurant dining experience comes along for which it’s worth rolling up your sleeves. At Everline Resort & Spa in Olympic…

  • Editor’s Letter

    In my youth, I grew up running around my Santa Barbara neighborhood on the weekends and in the evenings, picking fresh kumquats, pomegranates, blackberries, and sourgrass from yards and along roads. Back then, I didn’t eat a lot; I was too busy. Those foraged treats fueled my adventures in the wild.

  • High Desert Harvest

    Master gardeners provide an abundance of horticultural expertise to the community. “Gardening in Nevada is a contact sport,” declares Tricia Howarth, recent graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno Extension Master Gardener program. With our short growing season, early and late frosts, excessive day and evening air temperatures, and generally poor soil, it’s no wonder…

  • Home Garden Victory

    Uncovering local food-growing efforts during World War II. Our country under stress. A clear danger. Efforts, on a personal and national level, to deal with the emergency. Do these phrases remind you of the recent Covid-19 pandemic? As a food historian, I go back further, to the 1940s and the crisis of World War II….

  • Spring Onions

    Reap the benefits of these seasonal treasures. One of the first plants to come up in my garden are evergreen bunching onions (Allium fistulosum). A wise neighbor taught me that you can plant these cold-hardy onions one spring from seed, and if you leave some bulbs in the ground, green onion shoots will come the…