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The Spruce by iDesign collection offers a simple, stylish approach to kitchen organizing, and you can ease your environmental conscience knowing that each product saves 50 water bottles from a landfill. And since the containers are BPA-free, they’re great for storing ready-to-eat fruits and veggies in the fridge. The recycled plastic organizers are shatter-resistant and highly durable, so they can last through years of bumps and drops without breaking. The lidded bins are also completely transparent, making it easy to see exactly what’s inside....

The most controversial example of misclassified produce is the tomato—is it a fruit or a vegetable? It has seeds and a structure like an apple, but it doesn’t have the same sweet taste as most fruits. Most of us would call tomatoes a vegetable because you grow them in a vegetable garden with potatoes, lettuce, and carrots (which are vegetables). Legally in the United States, since a court ruling in 1893, tomatoes are considered to be vegetables....

The lyrics to his ditty are, “When you buy a little plant, and it’s doing great, you break off a piece, and you propagate. You make another plant. Oh, yeah, a baby brother plant.” The fun video has garnered more than 635,000 views, 107,000 likes, and hundreds of comments. (Not to mention others using the audio on their own propagation videos.) Many of the comments praised both the gardening technique and the lovely voice....

“The color has a lot of historical reference, so it fit with the 1879 house,” she says. Plus, it distracted from the reddish-brown patches in the granite countertops. “I realized I needed to think of it like makeup,” she says. “If you’re trying to hide red spots, you use concealer with green in it.” Other updates included hardware from her Nest Studio collection and a graphic pattern she stenciled and painted right onto the existing tile floor....

Ili Hidalgo-Nilsson and Kirstin Moehlig at Terracotta Design Build Co. had some ideas. “We needed to rethink the space to create as much storage as possible,” Moehlig says. She and the Terracotta team tore out existing oak cabinets and designed custom perimeter cabinets that stretch to the 12-foot ceiling. A furniture-style island offers storage, a sink, and prep space. “Dara is petite, so we earmarked the top portion of upper cabinets (reached by a step stool) for seldom-used items and maximized function in lower cabinets,” Hidalgo-Nilsson says....

Vermont’s bucolic countryside without farmhouses would be like Ben without Jerry. The charming homes, most neighbors to equally enchanting barns, are threads in a landscape that becomes entwined in people’s hearts—people like Kevin and Heidi Naughton. “We looked at renovating a house, but my husband has a thing about long views,” Heidi says. “When we hiked through knee-deep snow to look at this property and saw its views of the Green Mountains, we knew this was it....

Sometimes the road home finds us rather than the other way around. Longtime clients of Atlanta-based design luminary Suzanne Kasler had long imagined a second home: a place where they could savor long weekends and vacations in tranquil bliss. But the question was: Where? Truett, who also owns a home there, understands the vernacular of Sea Island architecture. He set out to design a house that adheres to the style seen in many of the island’s historic homes, all built in the 1920s....

*Note: If you do not have a food processor, combine filling ingredients in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until combined.

2 tablespoon pumpkin seeds 1 teaspoon sesame seeds 1 medium onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 teaspoon chili powder ½ teaspoon ground cumin ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 cup barbecue sauce ½ ounce bittersweet chocolate, chopped hot pepper sauce (optional)

CILANTRO-CUMIN RUB: In a blender or food processor combine 2/3 cup firmly packed fresh cilantro leaves; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 1 tablespoon chopped red onion; 1 clove garlic, minced; 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt; 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin; 1/4 teaspoon sweet paprika; 1/4 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel; 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper; and dash crushed red pepper. Blend or process to make a chunky paste. Makes 1/4 cup.Nutrition Facts per serving: 240 cal....

Plants for Creating the Easy Slope Garden Plan 8 Livingstone daisy (Dorotheanthus bellidiformis): Annual 6 Petunia ‘Purple Wave’: Annual 15 Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens): Zones 5–9 3 Crinkled hairgrass (Deschampsia flexuosa): Zones 4–9 6 Dianthus ‘Bath’s Pink’: Zones 5–9, depending on species 1 Sedum spectabile: Zones 4–9 6 Shasta daisy (Leucanthemum × superbum): Zones 5–8 1 Knapweed (Centaurea dealbata): Zones 4–8 1 Lupine (Lupinus perennis): Zones 4–9 6 Alpine campion (Lychnis alpina): Zones 4–7 3 Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia ‘Goldsturm’): Zones 4–9 9 Tickseed (Coreopsis grandiflora): Zones 4–9 3 Marsh marigold (Caltha palustris): Zones 3–7 3 Nanking cherry (Prunus tomentosa): Zones 2–7...