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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!).
Continue reading foraging in the city: wild pears!
The harvest from my backyard garden continues well into the fall, with pumpkins, herbs, scallions, and a great selection of delicious greens.
Continue reading putting the garden to bed
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
Continue reading turnip revelation
This giant turnip from last year was almost as big as my head
The weekends have had nice weather lately, and I spent some
Continue reading turnip blast from the past
25 gallons of compost, a beautiful sight!
Composting is one of my hobbies. I think I can call it a hobby. I find it
Continue reading New year, old scraps
Figs stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped in jamon serrano
At a gathering earlier this fall some people were astonished to hear that I
Continue reading homegrown figs
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
Continue reading coffee blossoms
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
Continue reading sweet weeds
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
Continue reading a little gardening update
Future site of Burgh Bees' apiary and demonstration garden
As a fan of the East End Brewery and beekeeping, I thought this was great
Continue reading brew and bees–not really, but close enough!
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Chef Daniel  I was raised in Asturias, northern Spain, in a family that loves to cook. My culinary development started early, watching my grandmother cook... [More]
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