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Tomato Blight: Now, more than ever–buy local.

About a month ago, I wrote about rain: how hard June has been for our upstate farmers, whose crops are drowning in the fields.  Now a plague of a different sort has struck, borne in our second month of humid air: tomato blight. 

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Tomato Blight: Now, more than ever--buy local.

Local-est Dinner

 For this farmer, it isn’t truly summer until I eat my first summer fruits.  Eggplants, peppers, and zucchini from Rooftop Farms were on the grill by mid-July, prepared by host & ...

Local-est Dinner

Easily-Grown Salad

Here’s a perfect starter food for all beginning gardeners: salad.  Sow your tiny lettuce and radish seeds now, and in just over 30 days, your window box will have everything you need but the dressing!  I ordered my seeds from ...

Easily-Grown Salad
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