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Homegrown garlic. The seasonal remedy.

  As our cache of homegrown garlic has depleted and, too, other local sources, anticipation is building at Maison Bleue around our next garlic harvest. Long convinced of the superiority of the locally grown product, with no need for chemicals such as sprout inhibitor found on overseas imports, here at The Backyard Pharmacy we are [...]

By |August 15th, 2012|Maison Bleue|Comments Off on Homegrown garlic. The seasonal remedy.

Seasons awry. Cherries in winter and forsaken oranges.

Seeing cherries from the US for sale in July reminded me of the folly of eating foods just because we can, not because they are locally ripe and tasty. It is a modern phenomenon that neglects the real cost of produce flown in from another country, where the social, health and environmental impacts are not [...]

By |August 1st, 2012|Growing Change|0 Comments