Biodynamic is a new word for me. Posted next to the new display of Jack Rabbit Hill wine at Denver Urban Homesteading, was the definition of biodyamic agriculture, pulled from wikipedia:
Biodynamic agriculture is a method of organic farming with homeopathic composts that treats farms as unified and individual organisms,[1] emphasizing balancing the holistic development and interrelationship of the soil, plants, animals as a self-nourishing system without external inputs[2] insofar as this is possible given the loss of nutrients due to the export of food.[3]
If your eyes glazed over when you read that, like mine did, perhaps attending Jack Rabbit Hill’s wine tasting event at Denver Urban Homesteading is more your speed. You can taste their Pinot Gris, Barn Red, and Pinot M &N on April 23rd at 6pm as well as hear how Jack Rabbit Hill answers the question, “what is biodynamic farming?” Read more »
I’ve never been impressed by curly parsley. I first ate it as a curious kid at a restaurant trying to be fancy by using parsley as a garnish. (It might have been a Long John Silvers.) It was tasteless, it strangely tickled the roof of my mouth, and the small leaves lodged themselves between my teeth after a few chews. Its relegation to garnish status made perfect sense.
As an adult, I was dismayed by how many recipes called for parsley. Was there a highly-funded pro-parsley conglomerate lobbying cookbook authors and publishers to include the insipid herb in their recipes? But then, I found flat-leaf parsley. It was zesty. It had girth. It was so hard to tell apart from cilantro. Read more »
An invitation to Ski Country to stay with relatives visiting from out of state + a slow internet connection = a week off for The Weekly Veggie last week. The snow was soft, the sun was out, and my nephew, who I taught to snowboard on Monday, was better than me by Friday.
Local vegetables were hard to come by. But after visiting Native Greens in Kittredge, CO a couple of weeks ago, I now know there is hope for local vegetables to be grown in greenhouses all over Colorado. Even in mountain towns with a shorter growing season.
Here is the Native Greens Greenhouse located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains just outside Denver. Read more »
