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February 2012: Warm enough to shed outer layers of clothes
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Rolling Thunder, or A Moveable Feast
In previous posts, I’ve alluded to the fact that our greenhouse is on wheels. It’s time to explain how this works and why we did it. The greenhouse is a Rolling Thunder™ model from RIMOL Greenhouse Systems. It is 22 … Continue reading
Spring, and some surprises
Because of travel, I hadn’t visited the greenhouse in more than two weeks. But Friday I was able to spend some time working there. What a difference a few weeks made: If I squinted, the field surrounding the greenhouse looked … Continue reading
August in March: Hot, humid, and harvest time
A few of us met at the Winter Bounty greenhouse yesterday for a workday. It was my first visit in weeks, and what a transformation! Where there had once been a path through the snow, there now was bare muddy … Continue reading
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Tagged eliot coleman, greenhouse, greens, harvest, Hudson Valley, Mizuna, Spinach, vegetables, winter
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Beating back the inevitability of Food, Inc.
A week or so ago, I attended a screening of the documentary Food, Inc., at the Cary Institute. It was a thorough demolishment of “food as usual” in the U.S., covering the now-familiar ground of feed lots, high fructose corn … Continue reading
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Tagged eating, food, garden, gardening, greenhouse, greens, harvest, Hudson Valley, vegetables, winter harvest
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Of sweet vegetables, flattened foliage, and purple leaves
We’ve reported earlier on three qualities we observed in our vegetables this winter: the supernatural sweetness of flavor, the propensity of the foliage to flatten to the ground, and a purplish cast on much of the foliage. We found more … Continue reading
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Tagged botany, garden, gardening, greenhouse, greens, harvest, Horticulture, vegetable, vegetables, winter
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