Articles tagged with “outside”
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Experiments in Homegrown Eating
24 June, 11:15 AM
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Q: What do strawberries, scup, pasta, and Cornish Rock chicks have in common?
A: They are all recent players in my “getting to know your food” trials.
I picked close to 15 pounds of strawberries the weekend that Tony Andrews Farm opened. It’s roughly 3 minutes from home and the plants were loaded with beautiful, brilliant red berries. I picked and picked and picked until my knees and thighs said “no more!” But then I picked...
Filed under Food and tagged with berries, cape cod, chickens, eating, fish, food, garden, local, outside, pasta, photography, photos, scup, seafood.
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Ode to Radishes
5 June, 06:06 PM
A brief garden update: I have been eating radishes and enjoying lettuce and herbs. Radishes are delicious but sometimes so pretty they’re difficult to eat.
The tomatoes are looking very happy and I believe I have now collected at least 7 varieties in the garden. Some heirloom, some hybrid, which makes me feel a little sleazy but we’ve all got to start somewhere.
In effort...
Filed under Outdoors, Food and tagged with chickens, dogs, garden, outside, plants, radishes, vegetables.
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How Does Your Garden Grow
9 May, 11:22 PM
I come from farming people. Just a generation or so away were people who grew food for a living, and in between there are a slew of folks that grow food for personal and family sustenance. As a child I hated gardening chores – weeding, harvesting, “putting up.” My parents have always had large gardens, and my father tends the vegetables while my mother grows flowers. I was never excited about helping them, but now...
Filed under Outdoors, Food and tagged with garden, must have books, outside, photography, photos, plants, vegetables.
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by brian & jake