The climate is changing — and the North Country is catching up to the rest of the world. In most places, strawberries and rhubarb ripen at the same time — and June 9 is Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day. This springtime treat dates back to the 1800s; rhubarb’s tart flavor goes well with the ...

As May turns into June, chives are blooming in our garden. The scallions I planted from roots salvaged from those purchased earlier in the season are getting tall. And the supermarket offers Vidalia onions from Georgia — the mildest onion variety. There are many other sweet onions, but ...

At the first farmers market this season, I bought fresh baby bok choy, scallions and last fall’s stored carrots. I also bought bread, yogurt, soap and laundry detergent. The farmer’s market offers a lot to fill your senses: Musical entertainment, fresh bread and pastries, sheep milk ...

It is May. Yellow daffodils, colorful tulips, purple violets, blue forget-me-nots, golden dandelions are everywhere. Chives and rhubarb are ready for harvest. Dandelions and violets are tasty mixed into salads. Our local farmers are returning and farmstands are opening, selling flowers, ...

Yesterday was Mother’s Day. Did you cook a delicious meal for mom or take her out to a favorite restaurant? What is mom’s favorite meal? When I moved out of the dorm into an apartment, I would often call home, asking how mom made something-or-other, and serve it to my housemates. Our ...

“Ridiculous as it sounds, we might be better off nutritionally if we threw away the crops that we so laboriously raise in our fields and gardens and ate the weeds that grow with no encouragement from us—indeed they grow despite all our strenuous efforts to eradicate them.” ­ — Euell ...