Just a few days ago it was starting to look like spring around our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House. I was able to get out and sow spinach and fava bean seeds. And today my seed potatoes are scheduled to be shipped from Maine. But […]
My wife, the baker in the family, took one look at our recent harvest of overwintered carrots and knew what she had to make: carrot cake. I know what you are thinking: There could hardly be anything more mundane than carrot cake. But trust me: once you’ve made it with carrots you’ve grown in your […]
Carrots have stored very nicely in the ground. And since we’ve been experiencing a bit of a thaw the last week I went out and started preparing beds for planting. While I was digging around, I pulled up this lovely bunch, about five pounds worth. We’ve been pulling occasional parsnips through the winter. These were […]
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