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As american as stock-car racing, country music, Walden Pond and the Beach Boys, another long hot summer is well under way.\u00a0 The neighbors love fireworks and each fourth of July they show off the good stuff they’ve picked up.\u00a0 Some of it is impressive for local effects.\u00a0 Flowering showers with a boom at the end.\u00a0 Fiery pinwheels with whistles.\u00a0 Percussive blasts.<\/p>\n
Rigel and Vega did not get as upset tonight as they did last night.\u00a0 Reassurance and familiarity are a powerful antidote.<\/p>\n
The harvest continues and picks up speed.\u00a0 Tonight I made a dish with chard and beet greens, topped with baked beets in Balsamic vinegar.\u00a0 There was, too, roasted turnips covered in olive oil, pepper and Kosher salt.\u00a0 Potato crusted wild Cod finished the meal.<\/p>\n
The Seed Saver’s Exchange calendar that hangs on our kitchen wall has this quote under July’s photograph of heirloom tomatoes, onions and bell peppers:\u00a0 “When the harvest begins to flow is the gardener’s joy.”\u00a0 It’s true.<\/p>\n
Digging up turnips and beets, cleaning and cooking them feels so good when they’ve come direct from the garden.\u00a0 Though there are political reasons for having one, ecological reasons\u00a0 and aesthetic reasons, the real payoff from a garden is fresh food, grown in a manner you know and in a place with which you are familiar, even intimate.<\/p>\n
There are certain activities that just seem congruent with life.\u00a0 Among them are picking, cleaning and cooking your own vegetables.\u00a0 When I dig up the turnips and the beets, I remember the day their seeds went into the ground, one at a time.\u00a0 Their first shoots.\u00a0 Their growth over time.\u00a0 All part of my life and theirs.<\/p>\n
Another tradition of the fourth at our house is a meal with dishes cooked from our own sources.\u00a0 Hope yours went well, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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