foraging in the city: wild pears!

Every fall I manage to find something to harvest from the urban environment: chestnuts? Quince fruit? Figs? This year I found some wild pears, and Tom from Wild Purveyors helped me try to identify them (and eat them up, of course!).

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putting the garden to bed

The harvest from my backyard garden continues well into the fall, with pumpkins, herbs, scallions, and a great selection of delicious greens.

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turnip revelation

Tokyo turnips served with fish for our family dinner

Yes, yes–more about my garden.

I am really enjoying my garden this year. So far

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turnip blast from the past

This giant turnip from last year was almost as big as my head

The weekends have had nice weather lately, and I spent some

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New year, old scraps

25 gallons of compost, a beautiful sight!

Composting is one of my hobbies. I think I can call it a hobby. I find it

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homegrown figs

Figs stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped in jamon serrano

At a gathering earlier this fall some people were astonished to hear that I

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coffee blossoms

first bloom of the coffee plants

There are a couple of blossoms I could write about all the time, our twins, but I don’t

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sweet weeds

japanese knotweed

There are very few empty lots, roadsides or poorly kept yards that don’t have Japanese knotweed growing in them. This weed is

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a little gardening update

One of my bark plant markers

A few of you have been asking me about my garden. For those of you that don’t know–I

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brew and bees--not really, but close enough!

Future site of Burgh Bees' apiary and demonstration garden

As a fan of the East End Brewery and beekeeping, I thought this was great

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