Show me a garden that’s bursting into life…

Show me a garden that’s bursting into life…

There’s this ritual going on here that you should know about. It’s remindful of a line in a song by Snow Patrol, called Chasing Cars: “Show me a garden that’s bursting into life….” Mary von Krusenstiern consults on a regular basis with Blaine Wetzel. The results...
Kale Chips with Rye Breadcrumbs

Kale Chips with Rye Breadcrumbs

For the first time we invite you to try it at home: Chef Blaine shared a requested recipe with Bon Appetit, so you can recreate one of our most talked-about dishes ever, the kale chips. Ingredients 1 small bunch Tuscan kale, center ribs and stems removed 2 tablespoons...
Paper Magazine – The New Foodivists

Paper Magazine – The New Foodivists

Getting to Blaine Wetzel’s restaurant, the Willows Inn on Lummi Island is not easy. But the two-hour drive (plus ferry ride) from Seattle to this island in Washington’s San Juan archipelago is well worth it. Lummi’s isolation and wild beauty are...
Mizuna

Mizuna

Like a little family, the greens sprout, row by row, inside the greenhouses and outside in Loganita garden dirt, peeking through at our first solid month of sunlight, and teasing the imagination of how our chefs will use them for aroma and taste and texture and d’art....