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farmers markets

Apple galette

March 23, 2009

I grew up at a boarding school with a working apple farm, so we ate a lot of apples. Picked them off trees, pressed cider as a class project, grabbed them from wooden crates that looked rather like these on our way to and from classes.  After I wrote a story about Southern California U-pick [...]

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Edible gardens

March 22, 2009

How to get kids to eat healthy foods?  Open the doors.  Instead of bribing kids or hiding vegetables in their chocolate pudding or blueberries in their hamburgers, get them into a garden.  For starters, bribing is an ethically questionably activity.  (Chores, sure; homework, maybe; food, no.) Then there’s the problematic fact that my kids can [...]

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