by Judy | Nov 23, 2008 | Recipes
When I chanced to read about our new ‘foodie-in-chief’, President-elect Obama’s dislike of beets in the New York Times Diner’s Journal, I couldn’t help thinking what my Dad always said: “beets taste like mud.” I like the earthy tasting beets – especially dug fresh from our garden – whether steamed, roasted, pickled or juiced raw with apple juice and ‘double’ ginger from the Reading Terminal Market. (This...
by Anneliese | Nov 19, 2008 | Environmental Issues, Events
The past two weeks have been quite hectic for me and Geoff. We exhibited at Green Festivals two weekends in a row, and they were on opposite coasts. It’s a tiring schedule, to be sure, but we like being busy like that. The Green Festivals are always interesting and a lot of fun. At each festival we end up making new friends, and we often see a lot of old friends, too. Two weeks ago the Green Festival was in Washington DC. A number of folks from the gardening...
by Judy | Nov 16, 2008 | Gardening
Well we harvested our leeks. I couldn’t face the thought of mulching them heavily, covering them up and hoping they wouldn’t be so frozen into the ground that I couldn’t dig them out when I felt the need for a batch of leek and potato soup! The leek section was about 3 feet by 4 feet on the end of the same raised bed on which we grew our onions. I’d been harvesting a few here and there for the last couple of months taking only the biggest...
