Summer Squash:Liquid Sunshine

Several years ago I put on an event at my gallery www.vreissgallery.com  called " The Neuroscience of Molecular Gastronomy" http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=%22neuroscience+of+Molecular%22&hl=en&sitesearch=# http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=%22neuroscience+of+Molecular%22&hl=en&sitesearch=#   It was a collaboration with my daughter, Ariel Garten ,who lectured  about…
October 24, 2010

Sorghum: The Sweet Taste of Success

Sorghum; the sweet extracted juice This Summer's boulevard garden was a great success. The broom corn reached a record height of 15' 8". Nestled among the amaranth, broom corn, cotton, beets,…
October 23, 2010

On the Boulevard: My Front Chard

One of the most beautiful, healthy and delicious parts of my garden is my "front chard". It grows  between the sidewalk and the road on a patch about  140 square feet ,which…
October 23, 2010

Horseradish, of Plague and Pleasure

Horseradish leaves in my garden in the Fall  The first  thing we harvest from our garden in the Spring is horseradish for our traditional Passover plate. We dig up the root ,wash…
October 22, 2010

Summer Squash: Sunshine

In the third quarter of July, I noticed a little empty space in the garden leading to the house. It was a stubborn piece of earth. In that spot, I had tried…
September 6, 2010

Too many tomatoes? Let’s play ketchup

The rays of the late afternoon sun are lengthening and what seemed impossible two months earlier is now a reality; there are too many tomatoes to eat and too little…
September 5, 2010