This is one of our favorites: beet salad with red onions. And in the summer, we like to add tomatoes. Toss with olive oil, red wine vinegar, chives. Have you noticed, the chives are almost ready to bloom. The lavender-colored flowers make a great addition to salads as well. The reason this salad looks so […]
In case you haven’t noticed, soil is one of my favorite subjects. The greatest event that takes place in our garden is not the vegetable harvest at the end of the season, but the day our food scraps and dried leaves and coffee grounds transform from “waste” into new soil, or what we call “compost.” […]
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We are nearing the end of a race with our over-wintered greens, wherein we try to eat them before they can “bolt” and go to seed. I recently harvested all of the mizuna from one small bed–no small task, seeing as it means pulling each plant from the ground individually, then picking off the leaves. […]
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