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2014, a Year in Comments: Plant Thievery, Loquats, Breakfast Cerial and the Apocalypse

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Age of Limits, Food, Permaculture, Thoughtstylings
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...t of researching the issue was discovering the Garden Professor’s Facebook page, wherein brainy horticulture types engage in a dialog on newfangled ideas. Use the search function on that page to find the subject you’re interested in. Who would have guessed that Facebook is useful for more than sharing cat photos and speculating about caftans? 5. Non-GMO Versions of Grape Nuts and Cheerios Less Nutritious Than GMO Versions. This may seem to be a po...

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Parkway Plantings

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Vegetable Gardening
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...asses for agriculture in this country have taken all the flavor out of our vegetables. Rapa da Foglia senza Testa, i.e. rabe without a head. Yet another bitter vegetable, this is a kind of turnip green that looks kind of like broccoli rabe, except that you eat the leaves. A bit susceptible to bugs, but we had a successful crop last year. Carrots – Carota Pariser Market. This is a small round carrot that French folks apparently like. Around the wir...

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Book Review: An Everlasting Meal

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Food, Reviews
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...s much. The beets were good. Roasted beets, I learned, are a handy thing to have in the fridge. But potatoes, cauliflower, greens…they all seemed sad after refrigeration. They made okay soup, but I’d rather roast them fresh. That said, she does offer good guidelines on roasting vegetables–everyone should know how to roast a pan of vegetables. It’s good eating and it’s so simple. Adler does a great job teaching the hesitant cook to be unafraid of f...

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Notes on Mark Bittman’s “Behind the Scenes of What We Eat”

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Events, Reviews, Thoughtstylings
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...emphasized you don’t have shop at Whole Foods. It’s more important to eat vegetables in general, however you source them, than to obsess about eating local organic vegetables. Maybe he’s flexible because things are pretty desperate. Bittman says that in the U.S. only 1 meal in 4 includes an unprocessed vegetable. And that number is actually 1 in 5, because the 1 in 4 number comes about from counting burger toppings as vegetables. Then think about...

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Best Practices for Gardening in Contaminated Soil

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Gardening, Lead
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...y are phloem fed). That said, you’d have to eat a lot of contaminated root vegetables to elevate lead levels in your blood. Adding phosphorus fertilizers will decrease the bioavailability of lead. In general root vegetables uptake the most lead, leafy greens less and fruit almost none. The most conservative approach is to grow in raised beds. The main concern is for children under 5 years old. If your soil tests high in lead and you have young one...

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