Don’t miss Kojo Nnamdi’s show at noon today when the discussion will center on food policy and some of the barriers to getting fresh local foods to people of lesser means, the people who really need it most. The Slow Cook will not be among the guests, but we did play a small role in […]
I had already spent the better part of a day weeding when, crawling on all fours, I happened upon this scene just above ground level. It looked like a garden diorama, deep inside an heirloom Italian squash plant, where blossoms and newly formed squash composed themselves into a luminous still life on their bed of straw mulch. […]
Tags:flowers·spring·vegetables
I had to make a sudden switch in my garden planting scheme this year after I decided to stop eating starchy carbohydrates. I had ordered a variety of favorite legumes–cranberry beans, black-eyed peas, peanuts–and realized there was no point taking up valuable garden space with them if we didn’t plan to eat them. Instead, I […]
Tags:brassicas·spring·vegetables
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