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February 2012: Warm enough to shed outer layers of clothes
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A harvest meal in May; transition time
It’s a busy time of year for our greenhouse crew. Like many gardeners, we’ve been preparing for summer, but for us, that means finishing off last season’s harvest. We have pulled up patches of carrots, kale and other greens that … Continue reading
Winter Bounty sweetens up dessert
Last winter, we discovered how sweet our green leafy vegetables can be when they’re grown in cold weather. Marsha halfway joked that she was going to create a dessert using our spinach–a tart or some other preparation that would showcase … Continue reading
Heat wave salad with raw beets and carrots
Like pretty much everyone else, we’re in the middle of a heat wave here in the Hudson Valley, and cooking is not a welcome activity. On our last workday, Logan mentioned that she liked to make a salad of raw … Continue reading
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Tagged Beet, Carrot, gardening, greenhouse, Hudson Valley, locavore, salad
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You can eat carrot greens! Who knew?
Sometimes, a piece of information falls into your lap at precisely the moment you need it. That’s what happened when I read “Yes, Carrot Tops are Edible…and Delicious” in Gilt Taste, a new online magazine and specialty shop selling artesanal … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby carrot, Carrot, Cooking, eating, food, garden, gardening, greenhouse, greens, Hudson Valley, New York, recipes, Temperature, vegetable, vegetables
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What does a heat wave have to do with winter harvest?
This morning, Logan and I spent some time at the greenhouse, trying to get a bit of work done before the impending heat wave. We spent about a half-hour inventorying projects and identifying items recently planted (that is, Logan identifying … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrot, cover crop, eating, food, garden, greenhouse, greens, Heat wave, high house, hoop house, Hudson Valley, Lettuce, locavore, winter harvest
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Carrot flan for a spring dinner
Because greens excel in cold climates, that’s mostly what we grew in the greenhouse this winter: two kinds of kale, two kinds of chard, arugula, broccoli rabe, head lettuces, cabbage, mizuna, and so on. Our root vegetables included turnips, radishes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrot, Cooking, eliot coleman, Flan, food, gardening, greenhouse, high house, hoop house, Hudson Valley, Mizuna, recipes, The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses, winter harvest
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“A meal any way you look at it”: Cooking from the greenhouse
I asked people in our group how they’d been cooking from the greenhouse lately. Lydia said, “I am just a fan of sautéing some onions and garlic and throwing in anything we picked from the greenhouse. I cook it for … Continue reading
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Tagged Beet, Carrot, Cooking, food, garden, gardening, greens, high house, hoop house, Hudson Valley, kale, locavore, Mizuna, Radicchio, recipes, salad, vegetable, vegetables, winter harvest
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The quintessence of carrotiness
A recent article in Chronogram highlighted the winter crop program at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, about an hour’s drive south of us and home of the famed Blue Hill at Stone Barns restaurant. The article quoted Jack … Continue reading
