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Martha Lynch

Martha Lynch is the section editor for Food, Home & Garden, Travel and Health at The San Diego Union-Tribune. She edits stories that focus on home cooking, home decor and gardening, trips that inspire wanderlust, and personal health and fitness. She previously handled content for advertising special sections at the Union-Tribune. Lynch was a news copy editor for eight years at The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio and, before that, spent 13 years in various roles at Pomerado Newspapers in Poway, including special sections editor. She is a northeastern Ohio native and graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She ed the Union-Tribune in 2016.

Visitors can explore multiple themed pocket gardens at The Nat in Balboa Park and learn about native plants. (Nikki O’Hara)

Nature Trail at The Nat to debut June 29

June 22, 2024 at 7:01 a.m.

Nature Trail at The Nat, a free outdoor interpretive exhibit, is San Diego Natural History Museum birthday gift to the public for 150 years of

San Diego Horticultural Society's tour of "The Peaks and Valleys of Poway" includes this private hilltop property with sweeping views and meandering pathways. The tour focuses on established gardens whose owners have collected plants for decades.

Joy blooms anew: Spring garden tours are back

April 28, 2022 at 9:22 a.m.

It’s been two years since the coronavirus pandemic cast a shadow across much of daily life, but in San Diego County — blessed with abundant sunshine and a temperate climate...

Lindsay and Eric Wood, founders of Experience Tiny Homes of San Diego, will share recommendations during presentations at TinyFest.

TinyFest bringing big buzz about little homes back to Del Mar

May 13, 2021 at 11:06 p.m.

There’s a real upside to downsizing, according to a growing legion of tiny house devotees. It’s liberating to be able to slash housing expenses — no small matter in San...

Lindsay and Eric Wood, founders of Experience Tiny Homes of San Diego, will share recommendations during presentations at TinyFest.

TinyFest bringing big buzz about little homes back to Del Mar

May 8, 2021 at 12:01 p.m.

There’s a real upside to downsizing, according to a growing legion of tiny house devotees. It’s liberating to be able to slash housing expenses — no small matter in San...

WorldBeat Cultural Center’s garden in Balboa Park features a Healing Sound Sanctuary sitting area.

WorldBeat’s EthnoBotany Peace Garden links serenity with learning

March 27, 2021 at 12:31 p.m.

After the past year, we could all use some soothing time in a garden. For those who don't have their own — or want a change of scenery — an...

Available in packets of two or four, each self-dissolving Instant Plant Food tablet feeds one large or several small houseplants.

San Diego partners simplify houseplant care with new easy-feed tablets

December 1, 2020 at 12:51 a.m.

Sometimes, timing can bring surprising opportunity. For landscape experts Ari Tenenbaum and Jeff Robbins, the idea had been brewing for years: Create a product that would make it easier and...

Available in packets of two or four, each self-dissolving Instant Plant Food tablet feeds one large or several small houseplants.

San Diego partners simplify houseplant care with new easy-feed tablets

November 28, 2020 at 1:31 p.m.

Sometimes, timing can bring surprising opportunity. For landscape experts Ari Tenenbaum and Jeff Robbins, the idea had been brewing for years: Create a product that would make it easier and...

Mano Patterned Spoon Rests from West Elm

2020 Holiday Gift Guide: Cooking

November 23, 2020 at 6:08 p.m.

Our kitchens have been busier than ever this year, as a family hub, a source of comfort and a place for home cooks to learn and experiment. Now’s the perfect...

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2020 Holiday Gift Guide: Home

November 22, 2020 at 6:45 p.m.

Your home may be your castle, but this year, it likely also became your workplace, school, gym, even your vacation spot. This holiday season, revive the simple comforts of home...

Shredded Beet-and-Apple Slaw from the new cookbook "Easy Everyday Mediterranean Diet Cookbook" blends sweet and savory in quick, satisfying salad.

Vivid slaw tosses in beets and apples for a fresh, tangy crunch

October 21, 2020 at 1:01 p.m.

The health benefits of incorporating the Mediterranean diet’s vegetables, fish, whole grains, olive oil and fresh herbs are well documented. With the newly published “Easy Everyday Mediterranean Diet Cookbook,” ed...

“Nineteenth Amendment Centennial Cookbook: 100 Recipes for 100 Years” is a free, able collection that salutes the courage of suffragists such as these, pictured outside the White House in Washington, D.C. To build and spread their message about voting rights for women, suffragists released at least half a dozen such community cookbooks.

Free digital cookbook celebrates 19th Amendment centennial and suffragists, with a potluck vibe

October 7, 2020 at 12:30 p.m.

Community cookbooks have a special place in my heart. Long before home cooks turned to Pinterest boards and food blogs for ideas, these collections offered the inside scoop on must-have...

Ingredients for Quarantine Choco-Chip Cookies include almond flour, dark chocolate chips and natural sweeteners.

Chocolate chip cookies in sync with the times

August 19, 2020 at 5:18 p.m.

It can be tough to maintain healthful eating habits in stressful times, when the snack you hanker for probably begins with “chocolate” and ends with “cookie.”Chef Nicole Burgess offers some...

Garlic and Pork Chive Jiaozi, served with Mum’s Fried Garlic and Soy.

Dumplings pack a flavor punch in a fun little pouch

July 29, 2020 at 1:01 p.m.

There is something so deliciously addictive about dumplings, the savory morsels filled with vegetables, meat or seafood.Brendan Pang’s love of the “little pockets of joy,” as he calls them, began...

The salmon is marinated in a miso mixture that essentially cures the fish, then it is broiled.

Miso-marinated salmon is sweet and savory

June 17, 2020 at 1:00 p.m.

If you’re intimidated by cooking fish or you can’t tell hake from halibut, a new cookbook from America’s Test Kitchen will have you confidently clearing space in the fridge for...