7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Local and Sustainable Eating, Seasonal Eating
Squashes and Roots Winter is the time for hard squashes as well as root vegetables like beets, carrots, rutabagas, potatoes, celery root, turnips and parsnips. They are at their flavorful best in winter and are also more affordable. As part of my winter farm share...
Local and Sustainable Eating, Seasonal Eating, Uncategorized
I was humbled by appreciation today. My CSA farm couldn’t find enough workers to keep up with the harvest so a number of members volunteered to help pick cucumbers and garlic. Kneel down, bend over, lift, squat, lift, then repeat, again and again. We kept up...
6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Local and Sustainable Eating
My neighbor emailed me yesterday: “Mary, do you want a bunch of arugula?” Seems she had tried it in a salad and discovered that it is one bitter vegetable. I could be called the dumping ground for all foods confounding, and strong-tasting bitter foods are...
5-New Kitchen Thinking, 9-Green Your Cooking and Kitchen, Local and Sustainable Eating
The Key to Survival: Odd Vegetables? Last week, we got kohlrabi in our CSA boxes for a second time in a row. Chatting with a fellow CSA* member she complained, “Why did we get kohlrabi again? Can’t they just give us vegetables we know?” Our personal...
Local and Sustainable Eating, Seasonal Eating, Waste Not-Want Not
Now is the time to sign up for a CSA, which stands for Community Supported Agriculture. What Join a CSA and you rise from passive grocery store consumer to farm member and supporter. Every week you get a great box of produce (or meat) at amazingly reasonable...
9-Green Your Cooking and Kitchen, Food Politics, How to Be "Marketing-Wise", Local and Sustainable Eating, Opinion and Editorial
Another good food gone bad. It was bound to happen. I’m not talking about some broccoli gone bad in the bottom drawer of the frig. I’m talking about the industrialization of poor sweet potatoes. You might remember five or so years ago, when roasting...
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