Edible Plants & Recipes
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Recipe: Apple-Fennel Sauerkraut
Homemade sauerkraut is easy to make and surprisingly delicious. Pair this tasty variation with sausage or roast pork, or add it to potato salad, chicken salad, or stuffing. Read More ›
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Great Pumpkin: Look What’s in the Herb Garden
An incredible array of pumpkins in all shapes, sizes, colors, and textures is growing in BBG's Herb Garden this month. Some hardly look like pumpkins at all! Read More ›
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Herb Garden Harvest
What happens to all of the beautiful produce grown in BBG's Herb Garden? Read More ›
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Recipe: Easy Summer Ratatouille
This simple French vegetable stew is delicious with crumbled goat cheese on pasta, alongside roasted chicken, or accompanying a fresh baguette. Read More ›
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Making Brooklyn Blue
What’s blue, sweet, healthy, and native to Brooklyn? Highbush blueberries! Vaccinium corymbosum is beautiful and bears delicious fruit bursting with nutrients. Read More ›
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Saving Seed for a Stronger City
Last spring, I helped launch North Brooklyn Farms (NBk) on the grounds of the defunct Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg. Once a weedy symbol of lost industry, it’s now a showcase for how to grow a variety of edibles. Read More ›
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Summer Spinach
Malabar spinach is an easy-to-grow green that grows more easily in hot weather than true spinach—and it's gorgeous. Read More ›
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Recipe: Blue Sunrise Cocktail with Pickled Blueberries
Berries and other summer fruits can be pickled and used in tasty cocktails year-round. Read More ›
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Recipe: Strawberry Kanten
Traditional Japanese confections, or wagashi, are beautiful, texturally complex, and subtly flavored. Read More ›
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Foraging for Wild Ramps
It’s peak ramp-picking time in the Catskills, and my neighbor took us to his favorite spot for a foraging spree. Read More ›
