Reviving My Senses – Taste

Peg Cherre — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:11:13 +0000

Spring offers so many local delicacies, from wild food foraging to garden bounty.

Lettuce

A BEAUTIFUL head of organic lettuce from my weekly share at Canticle Farm. If you’re not already a shareholder, consider it. The veggies are amazing!

Farm fresh eggs

Our own Susan Avery recently got some laying hens. She’s enjoying their chicken-y antics, and has graciously shared their eggs with me.

Fresh-picked asparagus

Every spring for about six weeks I pick the tenderest, most delectable asparagus from my garden almost daily.

Edible weeds

When I’m weeding my asparagus, I can pick chickweed for salad or lamb’s quarters for the saute pan. Fresh free food!

Lemon balm

Lemon balm makes a great tea, and it’s good for you.

Apple Mint

My favorite mint is Apple Mint. Like all mints, it can take over a garden patch, so I have two strategies. I have one patch planted out by itself, and a small patch in the kitchen garden that I keep contained by growing it in a sunken coffee can with the bottom cut out.

I admit it. I ate all the fresh Finger Lakes strawberries before I could snap the photo. They were DELICIOUS!

It’s your turn – what’s tickling YOUR tastebuds this spring?

by Peg Cherre, Executive Director

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Reviving My Senses – Taste