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Happy Earth Day!
Today is the 38th annual celebration of the planet we call home, and a day to step back and think about things we can do to preserve and restore our natural resources…
So that’s the official line on Earth Day, but I want to know: what do YOU think about Earth Day?
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Or something in-between?
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Home > Blogs > Living Green > Archives > 2008 > June > 30 > Entry
Vegetable surprise!
Sorry, no recipe to follow the title, but I did discover an entertaining aspect of community supported agriculture this weekend:
Sometime, you don’t know what you’re going to get.
I picked up this week’s bag of produce Saturday at the West Chester Farmers Market. I didn’t stick my nose too deeply into the brown paper bag brimming with green until I got home and laid it out on the kitchen counter.
Years of eating grocery store greens means I’m less educated than I’d like to be about the variety of vegetables that are available, even just from West Chester Twp. soil. I recognized the red lettuces, Napa Cabbage, turnips and garlic bulbs, but not everything was so easy to taxonomize.
Case in point, the green, root-looking things that tumbled out of the top of the bag. Were they sprouted garlic? Rutabega (not that I’d know what that looks like, but it was the first thing my wife thought)?
Turns out they are kohlrabi, a relative of cabbage and cauliflower that I’ve never seen before. I went online and quickly found a website with a number of recipes.
There’s a lot of variety coming out of small farmers’ soil, it turns out. That adds another fun facet to this local-eating project: by the end of the growing season, it looks like I’ll have expanded my palate with a range of new vegetable based tastes.
Yum!
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By Lee
June 30, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this
It’s fresh and grew locally - besides harvest by yourself, how much better can you get? The market is sitting under a beautiful clock tower with charming belling ringing from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. It’s a lovely place to be meet people and/or just taking in the scenery.