About Parsley
1. Once or twice. Parsley, Petroselinum crispum, is a biennial in temperate zones of the world and an annual in very warm or very cold
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July 21, 2022
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A Quebec Family Analyses a Year of Data
How much work does it take to grow most of the produce our Quebec family eats in a year? How much does it cost, and
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July 6, 2022
About Native Wildflowers
1. Typhoid saviour. One of the native wildflowers, Joe Pye weed, boneset to some, and botanically Eutrochium (reclassified from Eupatorium a few years ago), shares its common
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June 30, 2022
About Cabbages
1. Cabbage head. Coming from the Middle-English word caboge, which itself probably derived from the French word caboce, both meaning “head”, the word has taken on many other
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May 26, 2022
About Raspberries
1. Oh Ida, how red your blood. Raspberries, Greek mythology has it, were once white. Then along came Zeus’ nursemaid, Ida, who pricked her finger
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May 5, 2022
About Honeyberries
Photo: Hansicanada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. What’s blue, grows on a bush and melts in your mouth? Honeyberry or haskap (Lonicera caerulea) is an
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April 6, 2022
About Grapes
1. Sour grapes. The expression ‘sour grapes’ originated from Aesop’s fable about the fox and the grapes; a hungry fox tries vainly to reach some
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March 31, 2022
About Sunflowers
1. Sunflowers for Ukraine. Sunflowers grow well in Ukraine, owing to its hot dry summers. The flower was widely planted by Peter the Great in
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March 10, 2022
About Rosemary
1. Dew of the sea The name rosemary has nothing to do with roses or anyone named Mary. It is from the Latin: ros, meaning
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March 3, 2022
About Artichokes
1. Eating flower babies. An artichoke is the bud of the flowerhead of Cynara scolymus, a plant with lovely violet-blue flowers that look just like
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December 16, 2021