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organic gardening

More Ways To Preserve Fruit

September 24, 2009

In just a few short months, the weather in New York will chilly. Maybe even snowy. The fresh fruits I’ve been enjoying from local farms will be long gone.

Because I don’t look forward to this aspect of winter, I am taking time now to ensure I’ll still be able to taste a bit of [...]

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Julia Child’s Ratatouille

August 13, 2009

In honor of all things (Julie and) Julia, I recently pulled out and have been reading through my first edition copy (one of the benefits of my stint as a rare and used bookseller a few years back!) of Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

When I found out about the 4th annual Julia Child [...]

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Organic Garden Salad with Blue Potatoes

August 11, 2009

This organic garden salad with blue potatoes and eggs is a great example of how I am eating these days. I love salads like this because they are so nutritious and so beautiful. I grew all the veggies except the blue potatoes in my organic garden. The potatoes came from a local farm; I’m definitely [...]

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Organic Garden Early August

August 3, 2009

Somehow a month has passed, so it’s time for my monthly organic vegetable garden update.
Organic Garden Early August Highlights

It continues to be an incredibly rainy summer. My vegetables would like more sun, I’m sure, but they seem to be happy enough. The cucumbers in particular, with their high water content, are growing very well. [...]

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Herb and Flower Salad

July 10, 2009

Here is a lovely salad inspired by an empty fridge and a garden that’s offering more for me to eat with each passing day.
With the exception of the dried blueberries and the sunflower seeds, everything in this herb and flower salad was homegrown (or in the case of the red clovers, wild).
I don’t [...]

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Organic Garden Early July

July 7, 2009

It’s been about a month since I first posted about our new organic garden, so I thought I’d share some photos of my kitchen vegetable garden now that it’s early July.
Despite the fact that the weather was terrible and it rained nearly everyday in June, my organic vegetable garden is growing very well. I attribute [...]

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Organic Home Garden

June 2, 2009

For most weekends this Spring, my husband Dan and I have been working on an exciting project–our new organic home garden.
For the last few years, my vegetable gardening experience has mostly been limited to organic container gardening.
Yet one of the reasons we bought our house was because of its gardening potential (we’ve got lots of [...]

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