Meanwhile, On Gardenista: Stay Awhile

Welcome to Meanwhile, on Gardenista, in which we take a look at the goings-on over on our sibling site.

In this week’s edition: There’s still plenty of time to eat, lounge, and linger—even cook!—outdoors. In fact, these three glimpses prove it’s the perfect season for it. Just bring a sweater.

Above: “I spend most of my time planning which vegetables, fruits, and herbs to grow, and then dreaming up menus and parties around them,” says Janet Mavec of Bird Haven Farm in Western New Jersey. How do we get invited to a dinner party amongst the garden beds? Read the full story at The Secret of Bird Haven Farm: How a Landscape Mystery Was Solved by Fernando Caruncho (and Nancy Drew). Photograph by Ngoc Minh Ngo. Above: We recently toured St. Oak: A Stripped-Back Holiday Apartment by a Creative Pair in Germany, and the courtyard is no less captivating. Formerly an unused storage spot for trash bins, it’s now complete with covetable outdoor kitchen. Take a look around: Before & After: Once a Storage Place for Trash Bins, Now a Beautiful Courtyard Garden. Photograph courtesy of Our Food Stories. Above: And a spot to lounge around the fire on chilly nights, brought to you by the appealingly named garden design firm Dirt Queen NYC. Have a look around in Before & After: A Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, Backyard Reimagined. Photography by Brett Wood, courtesy of Dirt Queen NYC.

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