How do you know when a carrot is ready to harvest? When should you pick your cucumbers? Those were among the questions I fielded on Saturday from a group of new gardeners who started plots this year with something called the Neighborhood Farm Initiative. It’s the brainchild of two passionate and engaged gardeners–Bea Trickett and […]
Originally I was going to title this post “Salmon with Bearnaise Sauce” because that’s exactly what you see in the picture. Whole Foods was selling beautiful fillets of fresh, wild-caught sockeye salmon from Alaska and I couldn’t resist. I found a container of bearnaise sauce we’d made some time ago in the fridge and we […]
Quick, what would you say is the most underrated vegetable in the garden? There is only one correct answer: kohlrabi. Kohlrabi is in the brassica family along with broccoli, cabbage, turnips, Brussels sprouts and all the other cruciferous vegetables that we love. You hardly ever see anything written about it, and rarely does it make […]
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