There’s a shortage of parents who tell children to eat their flowers. It’s always fruit and vegetables that get the glory of parental harping. (And even though my 3-year-old son is growing up on a farm, there are still a handful of vegetables we have to convince him to eat—these days it’s potatoes and cooked spinach). …
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I wish I could tell you we spend as much time cooking as we do farming, but it’s not true. At least not in spring. One of us is out in the field by 7:00 am, and often back out again after dinner. We balance garden time with toddler time, and more often mix the two …
The spring sun and warmth calls for smoothies as well as greens. We tumble frozen berries into our relic of a blender, given to us when my parents upgraded to a Vitamix. And I’m here to tell you: you don’t need the latest and greatest blender to make great smoothies! Seriously, this pea-green solid state blender from …
It’s a watermelon, it’s a radish…it’s a watermelon radish! And it’s also a superhero of the vegetable world. What makes it so? Well, just take a look: I’m a big believer that beautiful food tastes better, and in late winter, when other storage crops are beginning to get soft, the watermelon radish holds firm. It’s …
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