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Edible Plants & Recipes
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Look What’s Growing in the Herb Garden
The Herb Garden is in its late-summer glory now. Enjoy the photos, but be sure to visit to see the rest of the season unfold! Read Look What’s Growing in the Herb Garden
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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 Recipe: Apple-Fennel Sauerkraut
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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 Great Pumpkin: Look What’s in the Herb Garden
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Herb Garden Harvest
What happens to all of the beautiful produce grown in BBG's Herb Garden? Read Herb Garden Harvest
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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 Recipe: Easy Summer Ratatouille
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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 Making Brooklyn Blue
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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 Saving Seed for a Stronger City
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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 Summer Spinach
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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 Recipe: Blue Sunrise Cocktail with Pickled Blueberries
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Recipe: Strawberry Kanten
Traditional Japanese confections, or wagashi, are beautiful, texturally complex, and subtly flavored. Read Recipe: Strawberry Kanten
