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Stephanie was kind enough to do an interview with me as she features my spring cookbook on her site Keeper of the Home. Her questions cover everything from what inspires the recipes to what motivates our journey to agrarianism to what struggles we have with eating seasonally.
If you’re interested you can head over to read the full interview.
We’re still eating plenty of asparagus, lettuce, spring onions, and soon peas. How about you?
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In Denmark ( N. Europe 😉 )
we are eating the last green asparagus, new peas, salad, new potatoes, onions herbs and the first amazing strawberries.
It has been rather hot and dry here all spring-(after a very cold and snowy winter) but the heat made my spinach, arugula and radishes finish very early. So now I am looking foreward to late August when I can make a late sowing of theese,
Cabbage and cucumbers re just around the corner- so is tiny beets.
Radishes, lettuce, radishes, spinach, radishes, and radishes.
I’ve got to figure out how to do the lacto-fermentation thing with radishes.
Luckily, I’ve got CSA food too, and they plant more than radishes!
I’m a little envious! The farmer’s market here doesn’t open till late May, so we never get the asparagus, peas and early lettuces aside from what we grow (and our asparagus is too young to harvest yet). We’re eating local blackberries, tomatoes, beets, squash, zucchini, cucumbers and Swiss chard this week, though.
I have been buying more fruits and vegetables. And the local strawberries are phenomenal!
My favorite vegetable that I recently started eating is kale.
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