Growing vegetables
A friend of mine (CEN) said that you need to be a cook to grow vegetables. She's definitely right, I thought, as I was scrubbing yet more beets, onions, and leeks for part of dinner tonight. It takes time to prepare vegetables, whether they're from the supermarket or your own garden. I'm being a good local eater and cook (and by extension, my gardening companion is, too). We've been diligently eating greens all spring (kale, collards, spinach, and chard) and recently have been eating beets, carrots, leeks, and onions, seasoned with home-grown garlic. Uh, I'd like to have a bit of broccoli, but with all of these other veggies, it's hard to justify buying any! I do buy fresh mushrooms (shitake and button) and the occasional hot-house red pepper (I always feel a bit guilty, but hey, they're terribly healthy. It's an interesting conundrum, in a time we can buy almost anything we want (vegetable or fruit), in the global marketplace. And it's also a ...