Last weekend at the farmers’ market I bit the bullet and bought some oh-so-tasty but oh-so-expensive morels, along with asparagus and a bunch of ramps. I had thought about making Barbara Kingsolver’s asparagus and morel bread pudding, but the boyfriend preferred pasta, which is really a better mid-week option anyway. Oddly enough, we came up [...]
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Another Spring Pasta Dish: Morels, Asparagus, and Ramps
Posted in Food, Recipes, tagged arugula, asparagus, morels, pasta, ramps on April 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Little Shop of Cucurbits
Posted in Gardening, tagged grow light, seedlings, seeds, squash, summer squash, tromboncino, watermelon, zucchini on April 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The official heat wave of the last several days is over, and now it’s drizzly and 65. There was a heat wave in my apartment, too. When the air conditioning is off during the day, my boxy little Federal-style rowhouse apartment heats up like a brick oven. A few weeks ago I stuck some zucchini, [...]
First Salad
Posted in Food, Gardening, tagged arugula, herbs, lettuce, parties, peas, radishes, red sox, salad on April 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On Friday I harvested some arugula that I had grown from seed, and also some red leaf lettuce from a seedling I’d bought at the market. Inspired by Fat of the Land, I also threw a few foraged dandelion greens into the mix. Topped off with some pea tendrils, sprigs of dill, cilantro, and parsley, [...]
Sunday Photo: Marigold Almost in Bloom
Posted in Gardening, tagged marigolds, pests, photos on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, what an exhausting weekend. I turned two beds, planted dozens of seedlings and onion starts, watered everything, and walked around the community garden looking for adoptive parents for my extra seedlings. All in nearly 90-degree heat. Phew! I’ll write more about it when I have more energy. For now, here is a photo of [...]
Recipe: Teya’s Pasta with Turnip Greens and Prosciutto
Posted in Food, Recipes, tagged harvest, pasta, photos, radishes, Recipes, turnips on April 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Last weekend at my community garden plot I noticed that the turnip I had planted was starting to bolt, so it was time to harvest the turnip greens. Along with a couple of tiny radishes, it was my first harvest! I had never cooked with turnip greens, but my midwest-derived friend Teya said she knew [...]
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Urban Gardening and Crime Prevention
Posted in Commentary, tagged academia, Boston, broken windows, community gardening, crime, crime prevention, Harvard, urban gardening on April 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
When I was in grad school, I wrote a paper about the potential connection between community gardens and crime prevention, with specific attention to the city of Boston. I do not claim that I found conclusive evidence that urban gardens actually help reduce crime. If anything, my experience this year has shown that community gardens [...]
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