Garden Tip: Making Tea for Transplants
...Though you can use many different types of plants to make compost tea, we like to use comfrey, a extremely fast-growing, hardy, and [...]
Recipe: Chocolate Babka
...evenly over dough, leaving a 1/4″ border. Tightly roll up dough, pinch the seams and place it seam side down on work surface. Using a sharp [...]
Garden Tip: Wasabi Replanting
...which make them perfect for our garden on Cortes Island. In Dana’s words the wasabi root has a nutty flavour and a little bit of a spicy kick, [...]
Tuscan Kale Pesto
...an ice bath. Drain kale and squeeze water from it. In a food processor, combine garlic and pine nuts and grind to a coarse paste. [...]
4 Lessons North American Entrepreneurs can learn from Emerging Markets
Shainoor Khoja discusses her learnings from launching businesses in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Syria. When Shainoor began her career in 1985, her views on business as a [...]
Recipe: Winter Squash Stew with Indian Spices and Fresh Spinach
...red kuri, butternut, sweet dumpling, autumn cup, banana, carnival, hubbard, turban, gold nugget. You get the idea 🙂 Cook’s tip Freshly ground spices boast the [...]
Hollyhock Yeast Dressing (Revisited)
People have been known to buy the first Hollyhock cookbook JUST for the famous Yeast Dressing. We’ve revamped this much sought [...]
Con Su Permisso in Africa
...horse handlers. Torai and Jonas, both in their twenties, are actually from Zimbabwe, so English rather than Portuguese speaking. I explain the purpose of the [...]
What is the Marketplace of Ideas?
...of Ideas, attendees (that means you!) have the opportunity to stand up and speak up about what they do. Your business. Your needs. Your ideas. Take to the stage [...]
5 Practices for Creative & Effective Collaboration
...diverse characteristics. Even in the same region and time period, different groups develop a diversity of “micro-cultures” which are distinct. Every [...]
Social Innovation – Climate
...Abram August 24 - 28, 2022 Cortes Island As humans we do not stand apart from Earth's enduring ecology. To address our global challenges, we must [...]
Free & Easy: Walk Effortlessly and Move without Pain
Free and easy walking is something that we all enjoy at Hollyhock. There are many opportunities to walk in the stunning surroundings: through the Hollyhock garden, [...]