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Category: Edible Plants

Bok Choy
Childhood~Edible Plants~Story Garden

Bok Choy

Chinese cuisine has many kinds of vegetables, but the one I’m most familiar with is bok choy. Like other Chinese families, bok choy is the most common green eaten during meals in my home, and not a day went by without bok choy. Although we […]

April 3, 2020
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Lewis and Clark Feast on Serviceberries
Edible Plants~Root Stories~Story Garden

Lewis and Clark Feast on Serviceberries

Native serviceberry trees (Amelanchier) abound throughout North America. During their trek across the continent in the early 1800s, Meriweather Lewis, William Clark and other members of their expedition feasted on serviceberry and other native berries, often as guests of indigenous peoples, and recorded these encounters […]

February 19, 2020
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Chili in Hill Country
Edible Plants~Farms, Gardens, and Yards~Story Garden

Chili in Hill Country

When I lived in Austin I had a friend with somewhere around 80 acres of land in the Texas Hill Country west of San Antonio. We’d stay in a crude cabin on the property, generally in the fall when the weather was cooler. We’d wander […]

February 25, 2019
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Gooseberry
Childhood~Edible Plants~Story Garden~Trees, Forests, and Woods

Gooseberry

My wife, when she fell ill, was advised by the physicians to chew on gooseberries in order to gain some vital energies.  She kept salted gooseberries in a bottle and chewed on them occasionally. There is something very special about this fruit; may be it […]

December 28, 2018
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Michele’s Fig Tree
Edible Plants~Story Garden

Michele’s Fig Tree

My father, Michele, was born in a small town in Italy called Bitetto, about 20 miles from Bari. He eventually bought a house in Canarsie, Brooklyn, that had a plot of land where he could do some gardening. He loved gardening and planted a lot […]

December 13, 2018
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The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Smile
Edible Plants~Medicine~Shrubs & Bushes~Story Garden

The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Smile

Summers in California are marked by hands with deep purple liquid running along palm lines and in between the fingers, dripping off the sides and trailing down the wrists, tiny brown hairs stuck to fingers and palms. Every time I look at a pair of […]

October 17, 2018
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Les tomates de mon grand-père Paul
Edible Plants~Farms, Gardens, and Yards~Story Garden

Les tomates de mon grand-père Paul

[English Translation below] Mon grand-père Paul vivait à Haute-Rivoire, un petit village dans les monts du Lyonnais. A chaque fois que j’allais les voir, lui et ma grand-mère ces dernières années, je repartais avec un sac plein de légumes de son potager : des choux […]

September 20, 2018
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Of Healers and Weavers: Bayabas
Cities and Towns~Edible Plants~Medicine~Story Garden

Of Healers and Weavers: Bayabas

I spent my elementary school vacations at my best friend’s home in Los Angeles, California. We grew up in Historic Filipinotown, an enclave home to the city’s first wave of immigrants from the Philippines. Her home had avocado and orange trees, abundant kudzu, and plenty […]

September 3, 2018
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Social Botany
Edible Plants~Flowers~Poetry~Story Garden

Social Botany

  SOCIAL BOTANY   politics is the authoritative allocation of values in society David Easton   Our nasturtiums, jalapeños, radishes would morph more savory were politics master gardening. Patient curious egos know temperate watering, care with weeds and pests, fertilizers, how best to harvest our […]

August 28, 2018
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Thoreau on White Pines
Edible Plants~Root Stories~Trees, Forests, and Woods

Thoreau on White Pines

  Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American transcendentalist, nature writer, ecologist, and mystic encountered pines daily in the woods of Massachusetts. In these excerpts, Thoreau describes some of thoughts and observations on pines. Thoreau uses the white pines he finds in the Walden woods in the […]

June 6, 2018
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  • Chili in Hill Country
    When I lived in Austin I had a friend with somewhere […]
  • Lola’s Garden and Cherry Tomatoes
    My earliest memories of plants all took place in my […]
  • Social Botany
      SOCIAL BOTANY   politics is the authoritative […]
  • Alluring orchids
    James Tormey’s Big Sleep cover Which came first, […]
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