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
Plants & Gardens Blog
Growing Food
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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
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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 Foraging for Wild Ramps
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Recipe: Valentine’s Day Sweet Potato Cake
Sweet potatoes are high in complex carbohydrates, beta carotene, vitamin C, calcium, potassium, and even protein. Their perfect partner? Dark chocolate. Read Recipe: Valentine’s Day Sweet Potato Cake