What with the confrontation between dogs and bears and the opossums eating the chickens, it was a very busy week for farmer Lee Hauter. An unholy row forced Lee out of bed one night. A bear he recognized from last fall apparently had risen from its long hibernation and approached the farm looking very skinny […]
Tags:asparagus·CSA·local farming
The idea of seasonality is not an easy one for young children to grasp. I’m hoping repetition will leave an impression. So this week we returned to the subject of asparagus in my “food appreciation classes.” And who could possibly object to eating fresh asparagus again and again and again? Children are fascinated by asparagus […]
Asparagus has a special place in the heart of the vegetable gardener. Being a perenniel, asparagus needs only to be planted once. Then, without much additional care, it will produce an abundance of lovely, fresh spears of asparagus year after year–for 15 years or more. Kids, it turns out, love asparagus as well. They like […]
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