Tag: harvest

Feb. 2 marked the return to 10 hours of daylight; as a result, Johnson’s seed house is currently brimming with all varieties of microgreens that are lush, healthy and being consumed at a rapid clip at the myriad local restaurants for which she is the supplier.

MassWildlife is seeing an uptick in the number of hunters whose primary motivation is knowing where their food is coming from: eating locally.

Onions and potatoes, tomatoes and basil, cucumbers and kale, snap beans and zucchini fill dinner plates and overflow salad plates as the growing season peaks.

Flourishing now, perennial green onions, French sorrel, rhubarb, woody herbs, onion and garlic chives add savory vitality to springtime dishes.

The seasons of more active engagement with the land are about to begin.

Halloween came to my garden a week early. The fabric meant to prolong the lives of plants transformed into their ghosts.

As we remove the dying remains of summer food crops, cool weather vegetables become ever more attractive.

I find the garden’s vigor expressed in a diversity of late-season flowers and their pollinators, in underground root crops about ready to harvest, and in the earth itself.

Whether at a farm stand or market, it is a small crime of property damage to tear open the tip of an ear of corn.

Halfway between the summer solstice – the longest day of the year – and the autumnal equinox -- the time of equal day and night –this gardener is feeling swept up in the incoming high tide of growth, maturation and ripening.