vegetables Archives - A Way To Garden https://awaytogarden.com/category/edible-plants/vegetables-edibles/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Fri, 04 Apr 2025 20:49:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 9651199 foraged and homegrown: whole-food cooking, with amy chaplin https://awaytogarden.com/foraged-and-homegrown-whole-food-cooking-with-amy-chaplin/ https://awaytogarden.com/foraged-and-homegrown-whole-food-cooking-with-amy-chaplin/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:35:43 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=56106 I CAN ALMOST taste it now: the flavors of the first spring crops, whether homegrown, or from your CSA share, or even ethically foraged…with the promise of a whole growing season of the freshest, tastiest produce to come. It’s the perfect time to think about adding some new recipes to our repertory that can really show them off, and who better to ask for inspiration on that score than Amy Chaplin, whose approach to cooking is nature-inspired and whole-foods based. It’s the 10th anniversary of Amy’s James Beard award-winning cookbook, “At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen” (affiliate link), and a special updated edition is about to be released to celebrate. Amy has worked in the food world around the globe for three decades, as a cookbook author, vegetarian chef, teacher and recipe developer. She is a native of Australia who now lives and gardens in the Hudson Valley of New York State, and I asked her help to get us all ready for making the most creative and delicious use of the botanical bounty that’s ahead of us. Plus: Comment in the box near the bottom of the page to enter to win a copy of the new book. […]

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]]> https://awaytogarden.com/foraged-and-homegrown-whole-food-cooking-with-amy-chaplin/feed/ 329 56106 seed shopping, with lia babitch of turtle tree seed https://awaytogarden.com/seed-shopping-with-lia-babitch-of-turtle-tree-seed/ https://awaytogarden.com/seed-shopping-with-lia-babitch-of-turtle-tree-seed/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:21:22 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=53907 LET THE seed shopping season begin. The 2024 offerings are being loaded into seed-catalog websites, and the earliest print catalogs are already arriving in our mailboxes, as if to help soften the separation anxiety we may feel if we’ve already put our gardens to bed for the winter. One that I always look forward to is Turtle Tree Seed, a biodynamic company where years ago, I discovered a few must-have vegetable varieties that I’ve grown every garden season since. Lia Babitch is co-manager of Turtle Tree Seed in Copake, New York, which offers about 400 biodynamically grown varieties of vegetable, herb, and flower seeds. Turtle Tree is part of Camphill Village Copake, a nonprofit intentional community of adults with developmental differences. We talked about biodynamics—and she enticed me with news of some of the upcoming seed offerings, too. Plus: Comment in the box near the bottom of the page for a chance to win your choice of $25 of Turtle Tree seeds. Read along as you listen to the Dec. 4, 2023 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or Spotify (and browse my archive […]

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]]> https://awaytogarden.com/seed-shopping-with-lia-babitch-of-turtle-tree-seed/feed/ 288 53907 what does organic mean? with linley dixon of the real organic project https://awaytogarden.com/what-does-organic-mean-with-linley-dixon-of-the-real-organic-project/ https://awaytogarden.com/what-does-organic-mean-with-linley-dixon-of-the-real-organic-project/#comments Sat, 30 Sep 2023 16:33:16 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=53637 WHEN YOU SHOP for food—whether produce or meat or eggs—and see a label that says “organic,” what do you think that means? At its most fundamental level, I guess I always thought it meant vegetables grown on the fields of an organic farm—like, in the soil, or animals raised in its pastures. But increasingly, as hydroponics have become more widespread, soil isn’t always part of the organic food-raising equation. Today’s guest is Linley Dixon, a Colorado-based organic farmer who is also co-director of the Real Organic Project, an advocacy organization of farmers who grow in the soil and together seek to protect the integrity of the organic label’s meaning on food. Real Organic Project is holding a daylong conference Oct.14 in Hudson, N.Y., with a great lineup of presenters from the organic community, and we’ll hear about that, too.  Read along as you listen to the Oct. 2, 2023 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or Spotify or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here). the real organic project, with linley dixon     Margaret Roach: Hi, Linley, thanks for coming in from […]

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