Archive for “Garden” Category

The Mighty Mushroom

Dec 16th, 2008

It was bound to happen.  Word gets out that you plant a couple of vegetables and before you know it the postman arrives bearing mushroom logs and shitake spawn.   Think that sounds scary? It looks even worse–

This organically zany gift arrived from my sister via this gourmet mushroom site.  The gourmet mushroom site offers [...]

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Gotta go for the garlic

Dec 4th, 2008

You know how it goes, your spend your whole life without a particular nugget of knowledge, and then suddenly there it is; everyone is talking about it everywhere you go. Lately, that’s how it’s been with me and garlic.  I love having garlic on my team.  I use it indiscriminately–always starting out with a little [...]

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What about those pumpkins?

Nov 13th, 2008

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. We need to talk about those post-Halloween pumpkins. They are still handy, you know, once the cute pictures have been snapped and the last of the candy has been pilfered from the children’s hiding spots.
The way I see it, once the carving knife has been retired there are a [...]

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Strike Two, Cauliflower’s Outta Here

Oct 27th, 2008

Ok, Ok, I’ll give cauliflower another chance. Geez, I had no idea the cauliflower lobby had so many activists. You guys really love the stuff.  Apparently you’ll go to the ends of the garden to make some converts (or at least leave me a comment…thanks!)
Our final CSA delivery featured this royalty of the cauliflower [...]

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Still life with Squash

Oct 24th, 2008

Beautiful right? Like something you’d see hanging in a Parisian museum between a reclining nude and gaggle of ballerinas.  Just don’t look too closely or you’ll notice for sure the wine glass towering above the tiny squashlings. Shortly after I snapped this shot I downed the glass of wine.  I wasn’t exactly drowning sorrows, but [...]

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Oh the weather

Oct 18th, 2008

Throngs of people will tell you that life in Colorado is just grand thanks to the 300+ days of glorious sunshine. I’ll let you in on a little secret: those sunny days can really grind on a person. They come with a burden of responsibility to get out there, get the kids outside, [...]

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Summer lovin’

Oct 1st, 2008

Sure there was that boy, cute as can be, splashing around and all that jazz. Really, what’s not to love about summer? Oh wait, I know. There’s that inescapable, miserable, sweltering heat. Which frankly I can do without.
Suffice it to say that if my calendar tells me it’s time for fall, I become [...]

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who me, jealous?

Sep 29th, 2008

Over the river and through the woods, or up the road and across the town line, lives my little brother. Say what you will about my use of the diminutive regarding a grown man with a wife, 2 sons, and his own business; the fact remains that this is my little brother. And [...]

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Holy Tomatoes Batman

Sep 28th, 2008

Shout out to our new farm hands, friends Bridget and Colin , who joined our own little seasoned pickers in the field. Without those extra built-low-to-the ground pickers, I don’t know if I would be spending all my waking hours up to my elbows in tomato juice. Thanks, guys.

Ok, so let’s say [...]

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Little House in the ‘burbs

Sep 26th, 2008

With half-pint and quarter-pint off to school it was time Ole Ma got that kettle on the fire. That food’s not going to put itself up, you know. How this family expects to make it through an unforgiving winter without a hefty supply of tomatoes in the freezer is beyond me. You know that [...]

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