Tired of Salad: Here are Some Creative Ways to Get More Leafy Greens
There are lots of controversies in nutrition but there is one piece of advice that is (almost) universally agreed upon. You’ve heard it before: Eat more greens. The scientific literature is convincing…greens are good for you. But, here’s where it gets tricky. Lots of people think that eating greens means eating salad…and lots of those […]
Purslane 3 Ways: A Delicious and Nutritious “Weed” You Can Eat
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson was right. And I would add that the definition of a weed depends largely on where it grows…and who you ask. If it’s growing in the cracks in your walkway, even I might call common purslane a weed. […]
A Lesson from the P-Patch
I’m lucky to have my garden in my own backyard…it certainly makes running outside to grab a few leaves of lettuce a whole lot easier than the days when my garden was in a community garden (we called it a “p-patch”) about a mile away. But I loved that p-patch, and grew plenty of food […]
