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BETWEEN FRIENDS
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making connections
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A busy young family creates a relaxing home with easy links to the outdoors. 92
big blooms 100
Make room for the divas of the garden. (We couldn’t even fi t them on the page!)
master strokes
Use bold contrast—in colors, textures, and shapes—to frame your yard. 104
pasta’s new day
It has as many uses as shapes: soup, salad, a pie, or even breakfast.
FRESH
13 GUIDE 20 BEAUTY 26 GATHERINGS
IN EVERY ISSUE
6 BETWEEN FRIENDS 10 BHG.COM
168 RECIPES/ PROFESSIONALS INDEX
170 I DID IT
READER SHOPPING
155 BRING THE BIRDS, BEES & BUTTERFLIES
HOME
31 A LIVE-IN KITCHEN It’s a cooking, dining, and lounging space—complete with a sofa. 40 LOOK ALIVE! Spring green is growing in popularity for indoor decor. 45 EASY IDEAS FOR YOUR BEST GARDEN EVER Here are 21 tips to get things growing. 66 ITTY-BITTY GETAWAY This playhouse is not for kids only. Grown-ups love it, too! 74 READY, SET, CLEAN! Room by room, our experts walk you through it. 80 IN GOOD SUPPLY Make your utility closet more effi cient. 86 HOUSEHOLD HELPERS The best new cleaning products, according to consumers.
FOOD
121 SCONES Teatime or anytime, they hit the sweet spot. 130 WEEKNIGHT DELICIOUS Pork and potatoes, stovetop tuna noodle casserole, and more. 138 NEW PASSOVER CLASSICS Restaurateurs put a sophisticated spin on the tradition.
BETTER
144 LIVE WELL Easier ways to put your hair up, healthier ways to go for a run, and more. 148 LOAD THE DISHWASHER Settled once and for all: Yes, there is a right way to do it. 151 CUPCAKE NESTS Peep, peep! Cute little chicks perch on these sweet Easter treats. 152 ALL-AGES TRIPS Our 10 favorite vacations for the family. 156 FACING MISTAKES How to help your child learn from them. 158 WHAT’S MAKING YOU SNEEZE? These strategies take you from achoo to aaaah. 166 JICAMA Fiber, vitamin C, and sweet crunch? You bet! Calories? Barely there!
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a season
Each year as we plan our editorial calendar, we debate the ideal month for our Garden Issue—pretty important for a magazine with Gardens right in the name. Our garden editors remind me that true enthusiasts begin planning when plant catalogs arrive in January. For others, it takes 70-degreesand-sunny to push the “go” button. Still, April seems just right. This issue arrives in plenty of time to spark your plans and creativity, whether you’re a seasoned gardener or someone new to the dig. And there are lots of the latter. A new generation has taken up gardening, especially the edible kind, as part of a healthy lifestyle: growing salad greens in containers a few steps from the back door, sowing edibles into borders and ornamental beds, or going all-in with raised beds and rotating crops so kids can pick the beans or—for chemical-free gardeners—eat berries right off the bush. Featured homeowners Wendy and Nick Brown (“Making Connections,” page 92) have made gardening and porches an integral part of their young family’s summer. Their lifestyle is easy, relaxed, and light on the scheduling. They represent a generation of moms and dads for whom gardening is a means of nourishing children, in every sense of the word. “Our kids (ages 9, 6, and 2) are out there in the garden with us,” Wendy says. “They understand all the elements that are needed to have wholesome food on their plate. They think about their food. They grasp that value.” Edible gardening goes hand in hand with all the other reasons we garden— for beauty, for an outdoor living environment, for creative expression, and for the down-deep goodness of feeling our hands in the soil. Our garden issue touches on them all. Dig in now, and enjoy the rewards all summer.
Gayle Goodson Butler, Editor in Chief
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contributors
SCOTT HORNE STYLIST “A LIVE-IN KITCHEN” p. 31 When he preps a home for a photo shoot, Scott looks for a way to “make it pop on the pages,” as he did with the bright hits of pink in this location. And that’s a lesson for homeowners: “Defi nitely have an accent color,”
it evenly but sparsely throughout the room. That
perspective.”
MATTHEW BENSON PHOTOGRAPHER “MASTER STROKES” p. 104 Matthew is also an author (his Growing Beautiful Food came out March 31) and an organic farmer. “Farming demands a lot of structure, composition, and humility, just like photography,” he says. “And they both allow you to
WRITER “FACING MISTAKES” p. 156 “Parenting can be the best and toughest ‘job’ out there,” says Elizabeth, a clinical psychologist and author you might recognize from the Today show. She says the advice in her Good Kid Project column works for all ages. “It’s based on helping your children live a happy, value-based life,” she says. “Parents would benefi t from these same concepts. When we are happier, we are more likely to achieve whatever goals we have.”
