About

This blog is about vegetarian cooking and organic gardening in the desert southwest. I’m a librarian by day, hence the blog’s title.

I’m a newbie to gardening. This past spring, I became involved in a community garden and started my own backyard garden for the first time. I’m working on turning my brown thumb green.

We live in Tucson, AZ, and the Sonoran Desert is a pretty harsh environment for gardening (we have little rain and 110 degree summers) – but many have been successful in this environment and our community garden is watered nearly entirely through a rain water harvesting system.

This blog is my attempt to capture what we learn as we go including garden-inspired (mostly) vegetarian dishes we create along the way.