https://thewoksoflife.com/category/how-to/garden-farm/ a culinary genealogy Sat, 06 May 2023 13:15:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://thewoksoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-TWOL-favicon-4-32x32.png https://thewoksoflife.com/category/how-to/garden-farm/ 32 32 https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-chinese-vegetables-in-your-garden/ https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-chinese-vegetables-in-your-garden/#comments Sat, 06 May 2023 13:08:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=63389 After its launch last year, we’re bringing back our How to Grow Chinese Vegetables series! (If you’d like to check out previous posts, head to our Garden/Farm How-To section!) Each month, we’ll publish a comprehensive growing guide for a different crop, including traditional growing knowledge, recipes using the ingredient, how to deal with common challenges, ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-chinese-vegetables-in-your-garden/feed/ 108 https://thewoksoflife.com/raising-ducks/ https://thewoksoflife.com/raising-ducks/#comments Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=69397 Today, we’re going to talk about our experience over the past year raising ducks: brooding ducklings, building a duck run, how they’re different from our chickens, how many eggs they lay, and what we do with all those duck eggs! We’ve already talked about our backyard chickens here on the blog, having had some previous ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/raising-ducks/feed/ 44 https://thewoksoflife.com/fall-garden-tour-2022/ https://thewoksoflife.com/fall-garden-tour-2022/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:01:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=68891 The year has come full circle here at The Woks of Life HQ. It was around late September of last year that we packed up our old home and moved into an 18th Century farmhouse—nearly getting crushed under a wall of kitchenware-filled moving boxes in the process! One year in, and we’ve now seen the ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/fall-garden-tour-2022/feed/ 44 https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-daikon-radish/ https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-daikon-radish/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2022 22:19:02 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=68825 Our How to Grow Chinese Vegetables Series continues! Today, we’re talking about how to grow Daikon Radish, a tasty, mild, and sweet winter radish that we use a lot in our cooking.  If you’re new to this series, check out our past posts on how to grow bok choy, napa cabbage, Chinese eggplant, chilies, and ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-daikon-radish/feed/ 20 https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-chinese-garlic-chives/ https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-chinese-garlic-chives/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2022 01:35:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=67788 I can’t believe we’re already at the fifth installment of our How to Grow Chinese Vegetables series! We’ll be talking about how to grow garlic chives, a Chinese perennial herb that’s perhaps one of the easiest things to grow in your garden. This series is a collaboration between us and Choy Division, a regenerative Asian produce ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-chinese-garlic-chives/feed/ 36 https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-raise-chickens/ https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-raise-chickens/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:20:43 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=64518 Today we have the chick update of all chick updates! We’re talking about how to raise chickens in your backyard. As many of you who follow us on Instagram know, we now have a flock of backyard chickens laying fresh eggs every day. We started sharing regular chick updates when we got them as baby ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-raise-chickens/feed/ 50 https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-chili-peppers/ https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-chili-peppers/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2022 04:05:19 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=66585 Here’s the fourth installment of our How to Grow Chinese Vegetables series: how to grow chili peppers. We’ll be talking specifically about Asian varieties you can grow, though the principles for growing different chilies and peppers are largely the same. We’ve found that chilies are easy to grow from small plants or from seed, as ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-chili-peppers/feed/ 36 https://thewoksoflife.com/herd-introduction/ https://thewoksoflife.com/herd-introduction/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2022 04:53:55 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=66484 It’s time to formally introduce you all to some of our fellow residents at The Woks of Life HQ—our small herd of two alpacas, two goats, and yes…one llama. We shared some photos of the herd when we announced that we moved, but now that we’ve been at the new house for almost a whole ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/herd-introduction/feed/ 82 https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-chinese-eggplant/ https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-chinese-eggplant/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:18:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=66064 Here’s our third installment of our How to Grow Chinese Vegetables series: how to grow Chinese eggplant.  We actually prefer Chinese (or Japanese) eggplants over regular globe eggplants. Not only is the skin thinner and less tough, they also have fewer seeds, making them sweeter and less bitter! If you’re new to this series, it’s ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-grow-chinese-eggplant/feed/ 14 https://thewoksoflife.com/summer-garden-tour-2022/ https://thewoksoflife.com/summer-garden-tour-2022/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2022 18:35:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=65416 Back in early June, we posted a spring garden tour at The Woks of Life‘s new HQ. Spring was incredibly busy, and things didn’t let up much over the course of June and July. But now that it’s August, we’ve transitioned from planting, cultivating, and growing to harvesting and enjoying. Time to show you guys ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/summer-garden-tour-2022/feed/ 127