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Continue reading →: Plant a Row for the Hungry
Our plethora of lettuce and salad greens this week reminded me that I haven’t pushed our Plant a Row for the Hungry program on the blog. Plant a Row for the Hungry is a program all over the U.S. sponsored by the Garden Writers Association that encourages gardeners to plant…
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Continue reading →: Eating Your Weeds?
Maybe it was my upbringing on a Wisconsin dairy farm with a father who loved nature or maybe it was working for a farm that regularly sold unusual edibles to restaurants, but this article from the Wall Street Journal is not shocking to me. Maybe it is to some of…
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Continue reading →: Cooking with Swiss Chard
One of the vegetables in the Family of 4 Garden that I mentioned yesterday is Swiss Chard. One of the reasons we included Swiss Chard in the Family of 4 Garden is because it is a leafy green vegetable that will grow all spring, summer, fall, and has the ability…
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Continue reading →: Going Salad Crazy!
The garden is yielding more salad every week. The Salad Garden is producing a lot and the Family of 4 garden isn’t far behind. This week we did a final harvest on the two rows of mesclun in the Family of 4 Garden, since they are starting to bolt. We…
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Continue reading →: Productive Sidewalk?
I just had to share this picture! Even the cracks in the sidewalk along our garden are producing lettuce this spring! Apparently some of the lettuce seeds escaped when we were planting a few weeks back.