There is no feeling like that of being overwhelmed with freshly-picked garden-fresh produce. It’s something you want to revel in — that sensation of abundance, the freshness, the deliciousness — but, before long, what sets in is panic. What in the world am I going to do with all this squash, all these cucumbers, 20…
Food & Drink
Food Preservation: Yellow Squash Edition
When thinking about canning, I have to resist my first impulse to think of it as a grandmotherly-type activity. Even seeing things in Mason jars makes me think “old lady.” Yet, canning, like knitting and making your own cheese, is what all the hip young people are doing these days. Right? Seriously, though, with the…
The Ugly Peach
This may just be the ugliest peach in the world. But, underneath that fuzzy grizzled exterior is the peachiest flavor you could ever possibly encounter. It was grown, not in California like most of the peaches consumed in the United States, but, instead in Stonewall, Texas, a burg with a population of 469 best known…
Sibling Rivalry
My human baby has gotten wind of my love for the plant babies. My phone rang late yesterday evening — it was a business call from the West Coast that I needed to take. I talked for a little while, then turned around to find Rory systematically pulling the seedlings out of their pots and…