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  1. Scarlet Queen Turnip. It's Not a Radish!

    6/4/10 2:34pm by the weekly veggie
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    My grade for naming red root vegetables at the Wednesday Boulder County Farmers’ Market = F. Well, maybe more like a C minus. Once I learned that Scarlet Queen Turnips are not radishes, I was able to identify the actual radishes on the table next to the turnips.  Read more >

  2. Jerusalem Artichoke, I Mean Sunchoke

    4/8/10 9:14am by the weekly veggie
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    The Jerusalem Artichoke got the “most interesting vegetable” award (at least in my book) at the Boulder Farmers’ Market last week.  I’d seen them last fall.  I was even given one as a sample by a generous farmer who noticed me hovering around them with a look of befuddlement.  But alas, I tucked it into one of the many pockets of my purse, where it was left to a fate of dehydration and neglect.  Cleaning out my purse a few weeks later, it no longer resembled its former self.  The markets were done for the season, and my Jerusalem Artichoke aspirations were placed on hold.  Read more >

  3. Vegetables Old and New at the Boulder County Farmers' Market

    4/5/10 2:38pm by the weekly veggie
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    Despite winds strong enough to knock me off balance, I strolled enthusiastically along the rows of vendors at the Boulder County Farmers’ Market this past weekend.  It was Opening Day. Farmers’, out of touch since the Fall, greeted each other with questions like “how’d your bees do over the winter?”  Read more >

  4. Getting Smart About Square Foot Gardening

    3/25/10 4:07pm by the weekly veggie
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    Instead of a veggie story this week, I thought I’d share my garden plans with you (ok, I’m biding time until our first farmers’ market opens on April 3rd –woo hoo!).  First, a disclaimer.  Not only am I a veggie ignoramus, but I’m a garden ignoramus as well.  Sure, we grew tomatoes when I was a kid.  I also tried planting some carrots. But I always pulled them up to early.  Read more >

  5. Monday Dose of Market: Baby Food, Burritos, and Biodynamic Wine

    3/23/10 1:04pm by the weekly veggie
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    Biodynamic is a new word for me.  Posted next to the new display of Jack Rabbit Hill wine at Denver Urban Homesteading, was the definition of biodyamic agriculture, pulled from wikipedia: Biodynamic agriculture is a method of organic farming with homeopathic composts that treats farms as unified and individual organisms,[1] emphasizing balancing the holistic development and interrelationship of the soil, plants, animals as a self-nourishing system without external inputs[2] insofar as this is possible given the loss of nutrients due to the export of food.[3]  If your eyes glazed over when you read that, like mine did, perhaps attending Jack Rabbit Hill’s wine tasting event at Denver Urban Homesteading is more your speed.   Read more >

  6. Flat-Leaf Parsley. Impressive.

    3/18/10 10:43am by the weekly veggie
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    I’ve never been impressed by curly parsley. I first ate it as a curious kid at a restaurant trying to be fancy by using parsley as a garnish.  (It might have been a Long John Silvers.)  It was tasteless, it strangely tickled the roof of my mouth, and the small leaves lodged themselves between my teeth after a few chews.  Its relegation to garnish status made perfect sense. As an adult, I was dismayed by how many recipes called for parsley.  Read more >

  7. Monday Dose of Market: Native Greens Greenhouse

    3/15/10 11:36am by the weekly veggie
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    An invitation to Ski Country to stay with relatives visiting from out of state + a slow internet connection = a week off for The Weekly Veggie last week.  The snow was soft, the sun was out, and my nephew, who I taught to snowboard on Monday, was better than me by Friday. Local vegetables were hard to come by.  But after visiting Native Greens in Kittredge, CO a couple of weeks ago, I now know there is hope for local vegetables to be grown in greenhouses all over Colorado.  Even in mountain towns with a shorter growing season.  Read more >

  8. Sprouts. Fast Food Vegetables.

    3/4/10 2:37pm by the weekly veggie
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    “From seed to salad in only one week,” says Good Sprout News about vegetable sprouts.  Sprouts are nature’s fast food!  And, “they can be locally grown and available in all four seasons.”   Read more >

  9. Monday Dose of Market: Backyard Greenhouse Bounty

    3/1/10 9:26am by the weekly veggie
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    Have you ever thought about building a greenhouse in your backyard?  Ed has.  A lot.  From inexpensive yet effective materials, to  passive heating and vegetable yields, this greenhouse in South Denver is more than a casual hobby.  Stepping through the sliding glass door out of the snow, Ed welcomed us into his world with socked feet, standing on a small patch of grass.  The warmth enveloped me and I immediately began planning my own backyard greenhouse in my head.  Read more >

  10. Arugula-gate?

    2/25/10 2:26pm by the weekly veggie
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    While campaigning, Obama asked a group of Iowans, “Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”  Obama was trying to make a point that prices at grocery stores have risen, yet farmers haven’t seen their prices go up. Detractors were quick to point out that there are no Whole Foods stores in Iowa.   Arugula-gate was born.  Suddenly, arugula became a symbol of elitism, a vegetable litmus test.  I wonder how arugula felt about all this.  Read more >

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