Whoever said gardening was easy? It might not be immediately obvious, but getting our front-yard kitchen garden to look like this took the better part of the Memorial Day weekend. By the end of it, we were grilling burgers and hot dogs and sipping our gin-and-tonics, but I was bushed. First, I harvested about 10 […]
Tags:compost·cucumbers·garden·planting·spring·summer·summer squash·tomatoes
One of the ideas I like to introduce to the kids in my “food appreciation” classes is that good food doesn’t always have to be cooked. I also like to show them how people used preserve food so they would have good things to eat all year ’round. That leads me into the subject of […]
I have a confession to make about last year’s pickles. I don’t think they were that great. We made quite a large quantity for my “food appreciation” classes at the private elementary school where I teach here in the District of Columbia. The kids were wild for them and we served them at the parents’ […]
Tags:cucumbers·fermentation·pickles
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