Greens

Spring Soupalad

May 17, 2013

Of all the wonderful plant-based doctors we can learn from on the internet and in books, I confess that Dr. Fuhrman’s work is the one I am least familiar with. An incurable bookworm, for some mysterious reason I have yet to even read Eat to Live. However, I do believe that sometimes such lapses are [...]

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Garden Fresh “Leftovers” for Lunch

April 7, 2013

Saturday night’s weather forecast predicted we might soon see the sloppy kind of April snow showers we get a lot of around here. So far only more rain. But on Saturday, in between rain, the wind blew the clouds off to the east and the north, and the sun came out. It was the kind [...]

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Signs of Spring (and Lemony Kale Pesto)

April 5, 2013

For now, anyway, it looks like we’re getting an early Spring on the Palouse. Of course, in this microclimate the weather could turn on a dime, and the ground be covered with snow in late or mid-April. But for now, it’s here. While I can’t gather ye rosebuds while ye may just yet, since my roses haven’t even [...]

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Rainbow Chard: Red Light, Green Light

January 16, 2013

The first Spring after I had been diagnosed with MS and was unable to teach at the university, I saw it as a long awaited opportunity to start a vegetable garden in my backyard. I don’t know why I was so sure of this: I could barely lift a shovel myself, let alone dig out [...]

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