It's the weekend after Thanksgiving - are you busy shopping for all those on your list? Remember, you can shop my collections for great gift ideas and inspirations!
This year, I am so excited to share lots of great holiday gift items on Martha.com - products for home décor, kitchen gadgets, table setting pieces, products for the gardener, the baker, the home cook, and more. And if you haven't already, be sure to check out my Martha: Harvest + Holiday 2022 gift guide for finding that special someone something useful and meaningful. Visit my partner, Canopy, for my line of Martha Stewart CBD wellness supplements and topicals. If you're looking to get organized for the New Year, take a look at my California Closets Collection for ideas. If you're sending family photos to loved ones, consider getting a Martha Stewart Mixbook. If you're looking for weatherproof, easy to pack outerwear, you can find great pieces in my Collection on Amazon. And if you're looking for sweets, take a look at my offerings at Goldbelly - pastries, cakes and delicious cookies. I have something for everyone.
Enjoy these photos and happy shopping!
I’m so excited about our shop at Martha.com. Martha.com and our trusted partners are celebrating the season with inspired collections for the holidays. You can find décor, gifts, kitchen tools, and supplies all in one spot. And we’re adding more and more all the time. Click on the highlighted link and start shopping now!
Are you decorating your tree? This is my Champagne Shatterproof Ornament Set complete with 75 shatterproof pieces that will fill the spaces and sprigs on the tree in a cohesive, elegant fashion. The baubles come in an assortment of metallic tones with shiny, satin, flitter, and frosted white finishes, so there is a balance of sparkle, shine, and luster among the lights. Best of all, they’re durable, safe, and yes, shatterproof.
At Martha.com you can also find lots of beautiful jeweled ornaments that will look striking on any tree or hanging from the mantel.
Time to take out that warm bedding or give a set as a gift. Here’s my Herringbone Cotton Flannel Sheet Set. It includes a fitted sheet, a flat sheet, and two pillowcases, all crafted in Portugal from brushed cotton flannel. My beautiful Empress Qin is not included.
For the cook on your list, consider my MARTHA by Martha Stewart Enameled Cast Iron Cookware – braisers and dutch ovens in a variety of sizes and colors. These pots and pans will be so helpful all year round for roasting, frying, searing, sautéing, and baking.
My photo products from Mixbook are a great way to share the most important moments of your life. Visit the web site for photo cards, books, and holiday greetings.
To keep the stress levels low this busy season, I’m offering my Martha Stewart CBD 15 Flavor Sampler Wellness Gummies box from Canopy. These gummies are packaged in an elegant and reusable linen-textured drawer box that helps to preserve the texture and flavor of the gummies. All the CBD cube gummies are inspired by fruits and flavors I love and use.
These gummies are so flavorful – we worked hard to get the flavors just right. Persian lime, black raspberry, strawberry, grapefruit, calamondin, red raspberry, rhubarb, passion fruit, green apple, black currant, blood orange, kumquat, quince, Meyer lemon and huckleberry – you’ll love them all.
You’ll also love my Martha Stewart CBD body care topicals with aroma technology and CBD, that help comfort tired muscles, offer sleep support, and small stem solutions for relaxation and stress management.
This is The Everyday System™ “Perry St. White Woodgrain with Gold Metal” finishes modular set available at California Closets. Streamline any space and create an inviting area with my wall-mounted components. This desktop includes a drawer and two shelves, and a modular design for customization.
And, of course, my Martha Stewart Women’s Outerwear on Amazon – its ultra-lightweight construction makes it easy to pack away. It’s the perfect staple for daily wear this season – find it in black, navy, mercury, olive and toasted taupe.
For anyone with a sweet tooth, check out my collection at Goldbelly, the curated online marketplace for regional and artisanal foods crafted by local food purveyors throughout the United States. Order some of my favorite pastries, cakes, and addictively delicious cookies.
I never forget the pets. I’ve partnered with Fetch for Pets to bring you an array of pet supplies, such as shampoos, conditioners, brushes, combs and puppy training pads.
And cozy up in my Faux Fur Coat from my Outerwear collection. Whether you’re layering it over a formal look for a nighttime event, or throwing it on over jeans for a fabulous finish to your weekend wardrobe, the faux fur will provide insulation and the snap closures will ensure you are secure and warm. Best of all, despite the lush look of this piece, it is fully machine-washable, so you can continue to look and feel your warmest and best for many winters to come. I’ll be sharing lots more great holiday gift ideas on my blog in the weeks ahead. It’s time to get into the holiday spirit! Have a safe and wonderful season.
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you have a very safe and enjoyable holiday!
This morning I am busy cooking in my kitchen like all of you - preparing all the delicious dishes for today's feast. Yesterday I was busy baking pies - one for every member of my staff here at the farm to thank them for all their hard work during the year. And all this week, we have all been scurrying around cleaning and decorating, pulling out all the necessary plates and platters, setting the table, grooming the terrace gardens, and more.
Enjoy these photos of my holiday preparations.
I love spending Thanksgiving here at my farm, where I can host an enjoyable holiday gathering for family and close friends. Today is expected to be sunny to partly cloudy with temperatures in the 50s – a nice autumn day for a delicious Thanksgiving feast.
Around my home, the boxwood hedges are all freshly groomed on my terrace parterre – all ready for my holiday guests.
Inside, I always display beautiful houseplants whenever I entertain. This is a potted rhipsalis – I have many types of rhipsalis growing in my greenhouse. Rhipsalis specimens have long, trailing stems making them perfect choices as indoor plants on pedestals or tall tables. Also known as chain cactus or mistletoe cactus, the thread-like succulent stems are narrow, green and can grow several feet long.
Guests always admire my Chinese money plants, Pilea peperomioides. The Pilea peperomioides has attractive coin-shaped foliage. This perennial is native to southern China, growing naturally along the base of the Himalayan mountains. It is also known as coin plant, pancake plant, and UFO plant.
This stunning Thanksgiving Cactus originally belonged to my mother, Big Martha. My late sister, Laura Plimpton, found two small stem segments, called cladodes, in the back of a drawer several years after our mother died. We took a chance and planted them, and they thrived. This is the plant now. Laura would have loved it.
Here is another holiday cactus in yellow. Thanksgiving cacti are the earliest and longest bloomers, typically producing flowers from late fall through mid-winter. Christmas cacti tend to bloom from early winter to mid-winter. There is also Easter cacti that blooms from late winter to mid-spring.
For Thanksgiving, I display lots of beautiful turkey figures. I made these turkeys years back for a shoot. We casted numerous turkeys from a material called PermaStone, a lightweight, durable cement and then gently tinted them in various earth tones.
Here are more turkeys. I have a large collection of turkeys – I love taking them out for the holiday. After all, I once lived on “Turkey Hill Road”.
Here is another turkey standing next to another potted rhipsalis. Recently, during a visit with my niece, Sophie, and her young son, I asked him to count all the turkeys he could find. He counted up more than 80.
And here’s yet another turkey figure. Succulents grow in so many different and interesting formations and colors. They are best planted in clay or terra cotta pots with proper drainage holes because the vessels dry quickly, and prevent water from building up. Echeverias are some of the most attractive of all succulents and they are highly valued by plant enthusiasts for their gorgeous colors and beautiful shapes.
This is Euphorbia lactea, also known as a “Coral Cactus.” It is a species native to tropical Asia, mainly in India. The showy part of the plant, the section that resembles coral, is called the crest. The ridges are spiny, with short spines.
There are also pumpkins displayed around my home this time of year.
More turkeys on my servery counter. I originally purchased the gold colored turkey in papier mache, and then gilded it with faux gold leaf.
In the kitchen, we’re preparing the “mis en place” – a French term meaning “set in place”. It refers to having all the ingredients prepped and ready to go before cooking. Look at these gorgeous carrots that we harvested from my vegetable greenhouse.
The leeks are all rinsed and peeled.
And on the stove, the cranberries are cooked with citrus until they pop.
Here – roasted butternut squash. It will be used in my butternut squash and leek soup.
And did you see my Instagram page @MarthaStewart48? I made 22 pies for my hardworking staff here at the farm. Each chose from chocolate pecan, pecan, butternut squash, or lemon curd. All the pies were wrapped carefully in cellophane and labeled for each recipient. I handed them out before they left for the Thanksgiving holiday.
These dark amethyst turkey dishes are on a side table in my Brown Room.
Nearby, another amethyst turkey at the dining table. I try to set the table so it is a little different every time. I work with my housekeeper, Enma, on choosing just the perfect combination of plates and linens.
The entire table seats 18. One tip is to always be prepared for extra guests just in case someone decides to bring another along – it does happen. Soon, this table will be filled with close friends. I hope you all have a joyous Thanksgiving with those near and dear. I’ll be sure to share more photos of my day in another blog. Happy Thanksgiving.
It's the day before Thanksgiving, and here at my Bedford, New York farm, everyone is busy getting ready.
Yesterday, we began gathering all the ingredients for my holiday feast, including harvesting vegetables from my indoor greenhouse - a special structure I created several years ago that was inspired by Eliot Coleman, an expert in four-season farming. My gardeners, Ryan and Brian, began planting in my vegetable greenhouse earlier this fall, and over the last few weeks, we’ve seen wonderful crops of beautiful organic produce emerge.
Enjoy these photos.
This greenhouse has 16 wooden garden boxes to fit the entire length and width of the space, so we are able to plant many crops. Raised bed gardening allows good drainage, prevents soil compaction, and provides protection for those plants that may otherwise get trampled. I am so happy to have this greenhouse where I can grow fresh, delicious vegetables during the cold months.
I asked Elvira to pick lots of beautiful carrots from the garden for our Thanksgiving feast. We planted two boxes filled with carrots.
Here is one ready to harvest. When picking carrots always be gentle. With some harder soils, it helps to loosen it first with a garden fork before pulling the carrots up. The beds in this greenhouse are constantly being tended, so the soil is soft and the carrots slide out pretty easily.
In just a few minutes, Elvira picked all these carrots. She picked both orange and yellow carrots – carrots also come in red, purple and white varieties.
Nearby is our bed of growing beets. These are the leaves of the beets. Beets are sweet and tender – and one of the healthiest foods. Beets contain a unique source of phytonutrients called betalains, which provide antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and detoxification support.
This is curly parsley. This comes from the same family as flat-leaf parsley, but curly parsley leaves are thicker and ruffled. Some also say its flavor is a bit stronger in curly parsley than in the flat-leaf varieties.
I also grow bok choy, one of the popular Asian greens. Asian greens include bok choy, mizuna and the mustards. Bok choy, pak choi or pok choi is a type of Chinese cabbage. Chinensis varieties do not form heads and have leaf blades with lighter bulbous bottoms. These grow so well inside the greenhouse. They come in bright green…
… And this red. This special variety has dark red leaves with green undersides.
And look at these beautiful lettuce heads. I have several boxes filled with just lettuce.
These lettuces are slightly more mature. We always plant in succession. Succession planting is a practice of seeding crops at intervals of seven to 21 days in order to maintain a consistent supply of harvestable produce throughout the season. This dramatically increases a garden’s yield, while also improving produce quality.
It’s a real treat to have lettuce like this all year long. I am often asked why I grow so many vegetables. My daughter and her children are vegetarian, so I grow lots of greens for them, but I also share them with friends, use them for television and photography shoots, and of course serve them when entertaining.
The gorgeous Swiss chard stalk colors can be seen from across the greenhouse. They are so vibrant with stems of red, pink, yellow, and white. Chard has very nutritious leaves making it a popular addition to healthful diets.
This Swiss Chard has more pinkish stalks. The most common method for picking is to cut off the outer leaves about two inches above the ground while they are young, tender, and about eight to 12 inches long.
I also grow a lot of spinach. Spinach is an excellent source of vitamin K, vitamin A, vitamin C, folate, and a good source of manganese, magnesium, iron and vitamin B2. We use a lot of spinach at the farm for my green juice – a must-have every morning of the year.
These are broccoli leaves. We just started growing broccoli indoors this year. They are all developing so beautifully. To grow broccoli successfully indoors, it must get at least six hours of direct sunlight per day or grow lights timed to provide the same amount of direct exposure. And they need room – each broccoli plant should be allowed at least a couple feet of overall space and six to 12 inches of soil depth.
Celery is part of the Apiaceae family, which includes carrots, parsnips, parsley, and celeriac. Its crunchy stalks make the vegetable a popular low-calorie snack with a range of health benefits.
The radish is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family. Radishes are grown and consumed throughout the world, and mostly eaten raw as a crunchy salad vegetable. Long scarlet radishes like these have a straight, tapered shape, similar in appearance to a carrot with curved shoulders and a distinct point.
Also stored in this greenhouse is this grapefruit tree, which finally bore fruit!
Not far is a Star Fruit tree. Star Fruit is juicy with a delicious tart flavor. The yellow fruit is three to four inches long with a waxy skin and five prominent ridges. Star Fruit is low in calories and low in sugar. When it’s grown in the tropics, one Star Fruit tree can provide fruit for up to three families because of its prolific fruiting habit.
I am looking forward to a season filled with bountiful harvests from my vegetable greenhouse – there’s nothing quite like the taste of fresh organic vegetables from one’s own garden. Now — on to all the Thanksgiving feast cooking!
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