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Eat more kale!
The bumper sticker on my car reads Eat More Kale, and we’ve been living up to this slogan, as recent posts will attest. My most recent kale-fest involves last summer’s crop. At the end of the summer, Caitilin brought home … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, garden, greenhouse, Hudson Valley, kale, locavore, Pesto, recipes, vegetable, winter harvest
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Ad hoc broccoli rabe
Some of our kale and other hardy greens began bolting a few weeks ago when it started getting warm. Our friend Jan visited around that time, and we sent her home with some of the young flowering stalks with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, gardening, greenhouse, greens, kale, recipes, vegetable, winter harvest
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Black-tie kale
There was a party, in honor of the speakers at a Cary Institute event. Our friend and onetime guest blogger Akiko Bush has just published An Incidental Steward: Reflections on Citizen Science. She spoke and read from the book, in … Continue reading
Kale for all seasons
We’ve gone from bitter cold to spring warmth in a matter of days, and it appears that we may be headed back to the chilly side of things. No matter. We have a kale recipe for every weather mood, and … Continue reading
Perfecting kale chips
I first “discovered” kale chips a few years ago when I tossed some chopped kale into a meaty dish that was braising in the oven. It was a lazy cook’s way of getting some green vegetables into the meal. When … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, delicious snack, eating, greenhouse, hoop house, Hudson Valley, kale, kale chips, Leaf vegetable, vegetarian, winter harvest
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Why a greenhouse in summer?
As I wrote in a recent post, summer gardening for our group is a considered a sideshow to the main event of winter gardening. But what a sideshow! Even though we vowed to plant more modestly this summer, we have … Continue reading
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Tagged basil, garden, gardening, greenhouse, high house, hoop house, Hudson Valley, kale, Tomato
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The Winter Bounty lending library: cooking, companion planting, and natural pest control
We are bookworms! And recently, we’ve all been sharing books that we’ve bought or found on our bookshelves. Logan brought a well-loved copy of Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening, by Louise Riotte, published in 1975 and now out … Continue reading
Things with Wings
One rather chilly morning 10 days or so ago, Logan and I were thinning lettuce and weeding inside the greenhouse, waiting for it to warm up enough to work outside. Peter was wheeling loads of compost from Logan’s backyard to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluebird, brassica, Brassicaceae, cabbage white butterfly, Caterpillar, hoop house, Hudson Valley, kale, Nest box, New York, Tree Swallow
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Black Friday at the greenhouse
Perhaps unsurprisingly, none of us involved in the Winter Bounty project are Black Friday enthusiasts; no, we don’t enjoy dodging fellow shoppers armed with pepper spray to obtain dubious bargains. However, I didn’t want to let the Thanksgiving holiday go … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Friday, blackfriday, greenhouse, hoop house, Hudson Valley, kale, radish, Thanksgiving, winter harvest
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Preparing for winter bounty by fighting the caterpillars
It’s been a little over a year since the Winter Bounty Project got underway. We’re now back to where it all began: watching things that we planted in the last month begin to sprout and grow, and helping them to … Continue reading
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Tagged Caterpillar, food, garden, greenhouse, high house, hoop house, Hudson Valley, kale, locavore, New York, pest control, winter harvest
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The Winter Bounty Project 