A sparkly new year is almost here.
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Praying
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Cruellest Month
#NYStrong
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Ice Storm Cameth
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#ShowYourStripes
Visualization of temperature change over time for New York State, 1895-2018.
Find your area: https://showyourstripes.info/
Thank you climate scientist Ed Hawkins for this important project!
Paris in a Time of Climate Change
Yes, that thermometer reads 44 degrees Centigrade.
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Bountiful
Thanks is given.
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Merry Thanksgiving
In our backyard, we’ve had Halloween snow once and now this.
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Show Time!
This diehard fan of “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” wishes you a very Happy Halloween.
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Plant to Plate
Indigo Kumquat tomatoes
Color when ripe
Detail of ripe tomato
Prepared for oven
After slow roasting
Inside curry chicken burrito
When the farm is your backyard, the table is never far from the food.
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Free Food
Mystery volunteer
Volunteer dill
Volunteer cilantro
Volunteer radish
Pro tip: if you forget to harvest some of your herbs and veggies, they’ll go to flower and feed the bees then go to seed and feed you for free next year. And the next year. And the year after that and… 🙂
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They Can Always Spot A Duck Lover
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Chive Time
Chive vinegar, day one
Chive vinegar, day three
Finished vinegar
Tuna salad with garden lettuces
Omelette with chives and flowers
After so many months without greenery, always a thrill to see the first shoots in our herb garden from hardy perennials like chives. And once the leaves fully emerge, those lavender blossoms cannot be far behind. Oops! Already here! Time to toss everything with a few chive florets and make that once-a-year-only chive vinegar for lovely chive vinaigrette. Try this recipe to make your own.
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Happy (Very Belated) Arbor Day!
Ornamental cherry
Crabapple
One of our four pear trees
We get the flowers but the squirrels get the peaches!
What’s blooming in your yard this week?
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April Fools (Belated Edition)
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H is for Hungry
And Happy New Year! May all your ducks be lucky ones in 2018!
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Last Tomatoes, First Snow
It’s been that kind of year.
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Magic
Just add time.
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When Spring Gives You Blossoms
Spring omelet
Chives
Parsley
Thyme
Enjoy ’em while they last!
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What the Ducks! 