Monthly Archives: June 2016
Curry Vegetables and Lentil Rice Recipe
A one-skillet dish, Curry Vegetables and Lentil Rice has bold, Indian-inspired flavors. The Orono Farmers’ Market was loaded with greens last Saturday. Bags stuffed full with diminutive leaves of baby Swiss chard and beet greens. Big heads of lettuce — some curly, some smoother. Bunches of firm kale leaves in different varieties. And lots of radishes in […]
What to Do with Strawberries This Season
When Treworgy Family Orchard in Levant posted on Facebook Saturday afternoon that they had a great opening day for strawberry season (they’ll be reopening for picking this weekend), I couldn’t help but get a little excited. Strawberries have been my very favorite fruit since childhood — the one I most look forward to, and relish […]
Blueberry Oatmeal Crumb Cake
There are so many ways to change the world, and so many ways in which people do. Farmers who’ve eschewed modern, more industrial farming methods in favor of older ways that celebrate the land and value older wisdom like companion planting, are changing their own worlds by being gentler to their environments. Teachers who think […]